2008 SATURN AURA Complaints

THIS IS AN ISSUE I EXPERIENCE A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND DISCUSSED THIS WITH THE DEALER. IT HAS SINCE RETURNED AND IS GETTING WORSE. REAR BRAKE LIGHTS ARE ON WHILE THE CAR IS DRIVING AND IN NEUTRAL ALTHOUGH THE BRAKE PEDAL IS NOT DEPRESSED. CRUISE CONTROL WILL NOT FUNCTION ONCE THE BREAK LIGHT TURNS ON. WHEN THE PEDAL IS PRESSED LIGHTLY AND THE BREAKS ENGAGE SLOWLY, THE BREAK LIGHTS WILL TURN OFF. UPON MODERATE TO HEAVY BREAKING THE LIGHTS WILL THEN TURN BACK ON. THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT SAFETY ISSUE. UPON RELEASING THE BREAKS I WILL HAVE APPROX. 7 SECONDS WHERE I CAN USE THE CRUISE CONTROL AND THE BREAK LIGHTS ARE OFF BEFORE THE LIGHTS TURN ON AGAIN AND DISENGAGES THE CRUISE CONTROL. DURING THAT 7 SECONDS LIGHT BREAKING WILL STILL NOT TURN ON THE BREAK LIGHTS. THIS ISSUE IS INTERMITTENT BUT IS APPEARING MORE REGULARLY. DURING A RECENT 40 MILE TRIP I COULD USE THE CRUISE CONTROL FOR A COUPLE MILES, THEN LOOSE IT FOR A COUPLE MORE WITH THE BRAKE LIGHTS ON, THEN REGAIN NORMAL FUNCTIONALITY FOR A COUPLE MORE, ETC. *TR

IGNITION SWITCH PROBLEM WITH SATURN AURA - KEY WILL SOMETIMES NOT GO IN FULLY, OR WILL NOT REMOVE FROM THE IGNITION WITHOUT CONSTANT PLAYING WITH THE KEY, SHIFT MECHANISM AND/OR IGNITION ITSELF. GIVEN GM'S RECENT RECALL ON MORE THAN 1 MILLION VEHICLES IN THE SATURN, CHEVROLET AND PONTIAC LINEUPS, I FEEL THIS IS A LINGERING ISSUE WITH MY CURRENT VEHICLE. IT HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES IN VARIOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS. *TR

FIRST WAS DOOR LOCKS KEPT LOCKING BY ITSELF RESULTING IN DEAD BATTERY. 2ND WAS TRACTION LIGHT COMING ON AT A STOP LIGHT. 3RD WAS CAR ALARM GOES OFF WHEN ITS NOT SET. MOST RECENTLY ESC ACTIVE CAME ON DURING LIGHT ACCELERATION MERGING INTO TRAFFIC CAR WOULD NOT GET UP TO SPEED VERY NEARLY CAUSING BEING REAR ENDED BY A SEMI. THIS HAPPENED 3 TIMES LUCKILY NO ONE WAS KILLED. 5TH THE RADIO TURNS VOLUME DOWN BY ITSELF AND YOU CAN HEAR COMPUTER OR SOMETHING ELECTRICAL IN DASH. DEALER SAYS NO CODES PRESENT. THERE MAY NOT BE A CODE BUT ALL THIS IS HAPPENING. PLEASE HELP BEFORE SOMEONE IS HURT OR KILLED. *TR

LOST POWER STEERING WHILE ON A CANYON ROAD CAUSING ME TO CROSS INTO THE ON COMING LANE OF TRAFFIC. THERE IS A RECALL IN CANADA FOR THIS EXACT SAME PROBLEM WHY ISN'T OUR GOVERNMENT FORCING THE SAME THING HERE? *TR

I NOTICED THAT IT WASN'T SHIFTING INTO GEAR LIKE IT NORMALLY DOES. AND THEN IT WOULDN'T GO INTO REVERSE. I TOOK IT TO A SHOP THE NEXT MORNING. I HAD TROUBLE DRIVING IT THERE. THE ENGINE LIGHT HAD COME ON. THEY TOOK IT FOR A TEST DRIVE BUT DIDN'T MAKE IT VERY FAR BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T WORK FOR THEM EITHER. THEY HAD TO PUSH THE CAR. I BOUGHT THIS CAR IN 2009 WHEN IT WAS ONLY A YEAR OLD. THEY TOLD ME THE TRANSMISSION WAS GONE. I TRIED TO DRIVE IT HOME BUT ONLY GOT A FEW MILES WHEN I HAD TO PULL OVER AND HAVE IT TOWED. THIS WAS AND IS VERY TROUBLING WITH ALL THE GM RECALLS. THERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THIS SAME PROBLEM. I STILL HAVE ANOTHER YEAR ON THE CAR AND I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIX IT. I NEED HELP WITH THIS. *TR

I WAS TURNING THE CORNER WHEN THE SEAT SHIFTED TO THE LEFT AND THEN THE SEAT BROKE. WHEN I LOOKED UNDER THE BACK OF THE SEAT IT LOOKS AS IF THE SEAT BROKE APART FROM THE BOLT THAT WAS HOLDING IT IN PLACE. *TR

WHEN YOU HAVE THE CAR IN PARK IT IS NOT ALWAYS IN PARK AND IF YOU TURN THE CAR OFF IT WILL NOT START BACK UP. SO WHEN WE TRY TO START THE CAR AGAIN IT WILL NOT START, SO WE HAVE TO MOVE THE GEAR SHIFT TO NEUTRAL TO START IT THAT WAY. WHEN WE MOVE THE GEAR SHIFT TO PARK IT IS NOT ALWAYS IN PARK. WE THINK THIS MAY HAVE HAPPENED IN THE ABOVE ACCIDENT. THE CAR ROLLS BACK. BEFORE WE BECAME AWARE OF THE PROBLEM THIS HAPPENED TWICE. ONCE WHERE OUR CAR HIT ANOTHER CAR AND ANOTHER TIME WHERE I WAS ABLE TO AVOID AN ACCIDENT BUT THAT WAS JUST BECAUSE NO ONE WAS PARKED DIRECTLY BEHIND ME AND I WAS ABLE TO STOP IT IN TIME BEFORE I HIT THE CARS PARKED SEVERAL FEET AWAY. *TR

THE CAR WOULD NOT GO FORWARD OR BACK UP ONCE YOU HAVE STOPPED AND TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE BRAKES. THE TRANSMISSION FAILED WITHOUT ANY WARNING. THE WARNING LIGHT NEVER CAME ON; IT HAD NEVER STALLED OR JERKED. AFTER RESEARCHING THIS MAKE AND MODEL CAR, THIS IS A COMMON FLAW. ANOTHER OWNER LEFT THE CAMPAIGN NUMBER 12V460000 ON THE INTERNET. I DON'T KNOW THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS NUMBER. I DO KNOW THAT MANY OWNERS ARE HAVE THE SAME ISSUES WITH THIS CAR AT 100,000 MILES OR 6 YEARS AFTER OWNERSHIP. THIS IS A $4,000.00 REPAIR. MOST ALL CONCERNED HAVE TWO YEARS OF CAR PAYMENTS LEFT OWING ON THEIR CARS. GM HAS SELECTIVELY CHOSEN SEVERAL INDIVIDUAL OWNERS AND REPAIRED THEIR TRANSMISSIONS. *TR

POWER STEERING LIGHT WOULD COME ON AND OFF AND THEN WHILE DRIVING PS WENT OUT. HAD TO STOP AND RESTART ENGINE AND THEN POWER STEERING WORKED. DID THIS FOR SEVERAL WEEKS AND THEN DEALERSHIP SAID DIAGNOSTIC CODES WERE C0550 AND C0460. FOUND INTERNAL MALFUNCTION AT PSCM. REPLACED AND NEVER A PROBLEM UNTIL THE SAME THING HAPPENED 2/7/2014 WITH 165,000 MILES. HAS TO BE A DEFECTIVE PSCM. NEEDS TO BE RECALLED. SAFETY ISSUE. GM NOT GOOD AT RECALLING. *TR

WHILE WARMING UP THE CAR THE POWER STEERING WARNING APPEARED ON THE DRIVER DISPLAY. LOSS OF POWER STEERING WAS CONFIRMED WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO TURN THE STEERING WHEEL. THE DEALER INDICATED THAT THE POWER STEERING ASSIST REQUIRES REPLACEMENT. I DID DO SOME RESEARCH ON THIS PROBLEM AND FOUND THAT TRANSPORT CANADA HAS FORCED A RECALL BY GM TO REPLACE FAULTY POWER STEERING MODULES IN THAT COUNTRY. WITH MORE RESEARCH I DID DETERMINE THAT THE PART NUMBERS INVOLVED ARE THE SAME IN CANADA AS THE ONES IN THE US. WHY HAS THERE NOT BEEN A RECALL FOR THIS PROBLEM HERE IN THE US WHEN GM HAS RECOGNIZED THE PROBLEM IN CANADA? *TR