1998 SATURN SC

Transaxle blew up as I was driving down the highway.Lost all gears instantly. This is not caused by normal driving.should not have happened. Should be repaired free due to production error. Don ever buy a Saturn. Apparently this is very common in Saturns and Cavaliers. Pieces of junk

My 1998 Saturn SC1 suddenly overheated one night on my way home from work. After having it looked at, it was determined that the Cylinder head had indeed cracked. I have been informed form NUMEROUS sources that this is NOT normal (vehicle is less than 5 years old and has just over 50k miles). After doing some research, I found testimonials from other Saturn owners that mirrored my own story. I did see that Saturn offered vehicles between 1993-1996 a special program warranty. When I contacted Saturn I was first told they would look into it, and when I called back was told that they could not help me, even though all I wanted was the range/bin numbers of the parts that were part of this program. I want to find out if my vehicle does in fact have this same problem and if there are others in my situation. If in fact they are manufacturing faulty cylinder heads, they should at least allow car owners access to the information and Saturn should be responsible for their mistakes.

Air conditioning unit stopped cooling.dealer wanted to trouble shoot@$80.00/hour. Haynes service manual said to check fuse .replaced diode @$4.00 and fixed myself. Manual transmission whining in 2nd and 3rd gear. Checked transmission dipstick and transmission fluid was low. Added fluid and anything over 1 quart poured out. Had transmission shop check it out for blown seal and they found internal metal fracture in transaxle inner case caused by shear pin movement. Saturn issued service manual notification in jan.1998. Dealer and Saturn are no help. Vehicle only warranteed 3 years or 36k even though this has been a known problem since 1997. Saturn blames owners for their bad engineering and does not stand behind their crappy vehicles

Car key locks up in ignition, wont turn or come out. cable to park mechanism wont disengage. has happened multiple times, today it took 40 minutes of jiggling steering wheel,key, brake shifter to disengage to get the car started.

The tire that i believe is faulty, ran low on air for a little while, then i aired it up - everything was fine until i tried to go into town one evening and it felt like i was riding on my rim. it sounded awful. once i was stopped at a street light, i opened my car door and there were pieces of tire just sitting underneath my car and under the tire. so i finally pulled into a gas station, sure enough, i was riding my rim. i came to conclusion that my tire was debeading, and i was sold a possible faulty tire. *tr

Button popped off emergency brake handle, rendering emergency brake inoperable. *tr

As i'm pulling away from a stop sign, i go to shift into 2nd gear & it's as if my manual gear shifter is not attached to anything. i am now not in any gear , unable to shift into gear, & left coasting across a 4 lane, 2 way street. also, both front seat seatbelts only retract about half way, and it has been that way from at least 17000 miles. *tr

Car overheated on 4 lane highway. had to pull over while cars were driving by. replacement of head gasket at 101,000 miles. car is still not working properly as head was replaced and now a ping had developed. 8jb

While driving at any speed vehicle accelerated uncontrollably. driver was able to maintain control of the vehicle, and drove it to the dealer for inspection. however, mechanic could not duplicate the problem. *ak

While the vehicle was parked consumer noticed fluid leaking from underneath. consumer was able to drive the vehicle to the dealer for inspection, and mechanic determined that the cylinder head needed to be replaced due to crack inside of the engine. *ak

Air conditioning unit stopped cooling.dealer wanted to trouble shoot@$80.00/hour. haynes service manual said to check fuse .replaced diode @$4.00 and fixed myself. manual transmission whining in 2nd and 3rd gear. checked transmission dipstick and transmission fluid was low. added fluid and anything over 1 quart poured out. had transmission shop check it out for blown seal and they found internal metal fracture in transaxle inner case caused by shear pin movement. saturn issued service manual notification in jan.1998. dealer and saturn are no help. vehicle only warranteed 3 years or 36k even though this has been a known problem since 1997. saturn blames owners for their bad engineering and does not stand behind their crappy vehicles

Manuel shift handle disengaged from transmission cable on floor when shifting. car was unable to be shifted to lower gear to cross highway safely .

While driving vehicle was in a frontal collision, but none of the airbags deployed upon impact. vehicle was totaled. please provide more details.*ak

Consumer states that when applying the brakes the brakes will go all the way to the floor. the stopping distance has increased. contacted dealer and the dealer states that the brakes are prefectly ok. *mrconsumer does not feel safe in this vehicle. *jg

Visor stopper failed. *yc

Transmission failure resulted in leakage. *mjs