1996 Saturn S-Series Coupe

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › automatic transmission. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Power Train › Automatic Transmission1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Power Train › Automatic Transmission
Filed Jul 18, 2006TX

THE CAR WOULD NOT GO OUT OF FIRST GEAR THE SHIFTER CABLE WAS BROKEN AT THE CENTER CONSOLE. THIS NEARLY CAUSED AN ACCIDENT AS IT WAS IN HAVE TRAFFIC. THE REPLACEMENT EQUIPMENT IS ONLY SOLD BY SATURAN AND COSTS $300 FOR THE CABLE ASSEMBLY HOWEVER ONLY THE CABLE CONNECTION IS DEFECTIVE. I HAVE THE DEFECTIVE PART. *NM

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2002
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20023000Routine
20012000Routine
19971000Routine
1996 — this page1000Routine
19952000Routine
19941000Routine
19932000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.