1995 SATURN SL — Complaint #355690
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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:RECLINER filed June 5, 2002
NHTSA complaint #355690 (ODI reference 8011092) concerns a 1995 SATURN SL and was filed on June 5, 2002. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 1, 2002. The report was geocoded to Massachusetts based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:front assembly:recliner, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same SATURN SL cohort independently describe similar seats:front assembly:recliner failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 1995 SATURN SL shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
DRIVER SEATBACK KEEPS FALLING BACK INTERMITTENTLY WHILE DRIVING.*AK *YH
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 355690 |
| ODI Number | 8011092 |
| Date Filed | June 5, 2002 |
| Failure Date | February 1, 2002 |
| VIN | 1G8ZJ527XFZ |
Similar SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:RECLINER Complaints for 1995 SATURN SL
MY WIFE WAS ON THE WAY HOME FROM PICKING UP OUR KIDS FROM SCHOOL AND THE DRIVERS SEAT RECLINING BACK GAVE WAY RECLINING THE SEAT BACK ALL THE WAY. I LOOKED UP A PREVIOUS RECALL SATURN HAD FOR THE YR,
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CONSUMER CALLED COMPLAINING ABOUT HAVING PROBLEM, WITH DRIVERS CHAIR BREAKING WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS IMPACTED FROM THE BACK BY ANOTHER VEHICLE.MANUFACTURER WAS NOT CONTACTED AT THE TIME AT THIS CALL.
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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