Car Problem DataNHTSA records

1997 Saturn Wagon

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 Aug 11, 200466,000 milesTX

CAR BEGAN TO MAKE A LOUD WHINE. TOOK IT TO MY AUTO-TECH AND WAS PLACED ON DIAGNOSTICS. WAS DETERMINED THAT THE BEARING IN THE TRANSMISSION WAS FAILING. THIS IS AT THE 66,000 MILE MARK. LET SATURN KNOW THIS AND BECAUSE I DID NOT GET MY CAR SERVICED THERE AT THE DEALERSHIP, THERE WAS NOT MUCH THEY COULD DO FOR ME! WHAT A RIP! EVEN FOLLOWING THE SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE ON MY OWN, THERE IS NOT MUCH THEY COULD DO FOR ME! I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH A CAR COMPANY WHEN TRANSMISSIONS FAIL AT THIS LOW OF MILEAGE. SOMEONE SHOULD CHECK INTO THEIR BUSINESS PRACTICES!!!! *JB

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1999
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19991000Routine
1997 — this page1000Routine

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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.