1998 Saturn S-Series

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the visibility › windshield wiper/washer. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Visibility › Windshield Wiper/Washer	1		0	0	0
Visibility › Power Window Devices and Controls	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Visibility › Power Window Devices and Controls

Filed Sep 8, 200590,000 milesOH

BOTH POWER WINDOW REGULATORS FOR THE BACK WINDOWS FAIL TO RAISE AND LOWER THE WINDOWS, LEFT SIDE IN EARLY 2004, AND NOW THE RIGHT SIDE IN LATE SUMMER OF 2005. I DETERMINED THAT THE PLASTIC MOLD INJECTED SLIDER (INSIDE THE METAL TRACK FOR THE WINDOW) IN THE LEFT REAR WINDOW HAS BROKEN, AND I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE CASE WITH THE RIGHT REAR WINDOW ALSO. I AM SIMPLY WAITING FOR THE FRONT PASSENGER WINDOW TO BREAK AS IT IS EXHIBITING SLOWNESS WHILE GOING UP AND DOWN. *NM

Visibility › Windshield Wiper/Washer

Filed Feb 14, 2003NE

THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS WORKED INTERMITTENTLY. *JB

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Deaths	Assessment
2002	3	0	0	Routine
2001	5	0	0	Routine
2000	3	0	0	Routine
1999	2	0	0	Routine
1998 — this page	2	0	0	Routine
1997	1	0	0	Routine
1996	2	1	0	Routine
1995	1	1	0	Routine
1994	3	1	1	Fatalities reported
1993	0	1	0	Routine

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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.