2003 l-200 purchased feb 03. Soon found numerous issues with car, to this day have not been fixed. Tried saturn 800 # to no avail. Rep was rude. Flat out told me nothing to be done by saturn if local dealer can't fix. Told by local svc mgr supv I was making probs up & no one else had these problems. He told svc reps halt correcting or reviewing warranty work on our car. Escalated & wrkd w/ dir of oprtns. He wasn't able to fix probs due to resistance frm saturn. Was told no more work on probs becz saturn intervened in doing more warranty work. In "all" instances were given final resolution per saturn all problems are "working as designed", have no intention to fix them. Said not going to invest money to fix in '03 but use complaints look at possible changes future cars. We have had and continue to have problems with 1) "safety issue": exterior lights flashing on/off 2) "safety issue": exterior auto on/off for day running and headlights doesn't register properly which one to use & when 3) interior lights dim higher & lower intermittently 4) automatic climate control does not work properly. Does not properly regulate the heat & A/C. Temp must be set a min. 84 degrees for heat then will only stay for awhile when suddenly it goes away &the A/C comes on. Only 1/2 way fix for issue is to use this unit in a manual mode set to a min. 84 degrees & burn up the inside then turn off, turn back on to warm, keep repeating. In manual mode you also experience cold air when it runs out of hot air. 5) six disc cd/cassette philips system: volume goes from very soft to very loud in 1 click with no inbetween. The dealership replaced system with like one to find it does same thing. Told an outside vendor piece of equipment & can't do anything about it. Figure out way to balance it, push all sound to back of car, listen to it low or not at all. As you might well imagine I would "not" recommend to anyone to purchase a saturn vehicle.
2003 Saturn L200 lights complaints
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Problems with vehicle's power steering system.*mr consumer noticed the failure when driving off the lot but thought I was due to cold weather. Later she learned the rack and pinion needed to be replaced due to fluid leaking. After the repair, consumer started hearing grinding noise when turning. On 10/08/03, the consumer learned the steering pump had to be replaced. After picking up the vehicle on this date, consumer heard more noises. This time it was a air pocket in the steering fluid. In addition, the automatic climate control system fails to work as designed. It's programmed at 87 degrees when its cold outside. Instead of heat, it would blow warm then cold air. The computer was reprogrammed and the problem became worst than at first. There were countless other problems with this vehicle.
Constant electrical failure with 2003 saturn l series sedan..lights don t work properly(daytime running regular lights)..constant shorting ..horn blasts..cruise contrll goes on.. Map light.. Alarm activates while driving..sending unit failure..heater core failure..
Headlights flash on and off repeatedly. A faint clicking sound was heard from under the das,h and the headlights momentarily flashed off. Happened about once a week. When it occurred, lights would flicker for a second or two about once a minute as many as a dozen to 20 times after starting the car from a cold start. Dealer denied ther was any problem, and knew of no solution.
I have been having problems with my lights flickering to the point where they go almost completely out. The date that I listed below it was the worst occurrence thus far. There were no appliances running ( air or heat ) to cause this. I have had people try to run me off the road and turn their hi beam lights on me thinking that I was flashing them when my lights were actually flickering. I feel that with road rage incidents of this type and the possibility of a vehicle fire that this posses a significant traffic safety issue.
A tractor trailer was passing me on the interstate. Just as his trailer was approximately 2/3 past me, my lights dimmed out on my car by themselves. The driver of the tractor trailer thought I had flashed my headlights at him, to let him know he had cleared my car and was safe to come into my lane, which was not the case. This made the drivers behind me and the tractor trailer in all 3 lanes, to slam on their brakes. The truck driver almost lost control of his rig trying to keep from hitting me when he realized that he did not have clearance as my lights "suggested" to him that he had. All of us were fortunate at this time not to have wrecked. (yet I received a lot of jerking of my neck and head when braking and steering to get out of the way). Next time my lights do this it could make another trucker or person pulling an rv or a school bus full of kids or tour bus full of tourists think I have given the "clearance" to move into my lane; when I have not. Someone is going to get killed if this issue won?t force to be repaired by gm/saturn. I reported to saturn, what caused this severe power drain on my car. When the auxiliary cooling fan near the compressor kicks in, it puts a severe power drain on the cars lights, which was using the heat or A/C that could be dozens of times in a matter of minutes if it appears that I am flashing my headlights to those in front of me and tapping my brakes to those behind me. Last week, my local dealership was trying to fix my car. On the 2nd day of working on my car the service dept. Called saturn incorporated for help. My dealership was forced by saturn corporation to stop working on my car. They were told not to fix my car claiming all saturns are designed this way. They said it is not a safety or warranty issue because my lights don't go all the way off. My lights might not go all the way out but they go out too much to be considered safe. Note:(the 2004 l-300 loaner they had supplied me does it too)
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