1994 SATURN SL — Complaint #663095
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:MANUAL TRANSMISSION:FLOOR SHIFT ASSEMBLY filed March 26, 2008
NHTSA complaint #663095 (ODI reference 10222344) concerns a 1994 SATURN SL and was filed on March 26, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 22, 2008. The vehicle had 100,230 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Georgia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:manual transmission:floor shift assembly, 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 power train:manual transmission:floor shift assembly 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 1994 SATURN SL shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
SHIFTER CABLES BROKE WHERE IT CONNECTS TO SHIFTER. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 663095 |
| ODI Number | 10222344 |
| Date Filed | March 26, 2008 |
| Failure Date | February 22, 2008 |
| VIN | 1G8ZG5596RZ |
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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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