2005 Saturn Saturn L Series

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the seat belts › rear/other. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Seat Belts › Rear/Other	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Seat Belts › Rear/Other

Filed Jul 27, 200615,480 milesPA

THE PART IN QUESTION IS THE REAR SEAT BELT ADJUSTER. THIS PART IS USED FOR CHILDREN WHO HAVE OUTGROWN BOOSTER SEATS AND ARE STILL TOO SMALL FOR THE REGULAR SEAT BELT. I HAVE HAD 6 OF THESE SEAT BELT ADJUSTER BREAK. 5 HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED WITH REPLACEMENTS AT THE DEALERSHIP. MOST OF THE TIMES I HAD BREAKED HARD AND THEY SNAPPED IN THE SAME PLACE ALL 6 TIMES. BELOW I HAVE LISTED THE LAST INCIDENT DATE. EACH TIME THE DEALERSHIP HAS REPLACED THE PART. THE COMPANY CUSTOMER SERVICE ONLY INSURED THAT I HAD ONE AVAILABLE TO REPLACE IT AND COULD NOT TELL ME IF A CHANGE IN THE DESIGN WOULD BE GIVEN. ALSO, THEY WOULD NOT TELL ME IF MY WARRANTY WAS UP IF THE PART WOULD CONTINUE TO BE REPLACED. *NM

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001

Year	Complaints	Fires	Assessment
2005 — this page	1	0	Routine
2004	1	1	Routine
2002	3	0	Routine
2001	9	0	Routine
2000	5	1	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.