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2007 SATURN ION — Complaint #835195

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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY:SOLENOID filed January 6, 2011

NHTSA complaint #835195 (ODI reference 10374569) concerns a 2007 SATURN ION and was filed on January 6, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 3, 2011. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:starter assembly:solenoid, 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 ION cohort independently describe similar electrical system:starter assembly:solenoid 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 2007 SATURN ION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2007 SATURN ION
Component
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY:SOLENOID
State
Pennsylvania

Complaint Description

2007 SATURN ION. CONSUMER STATES THAT HIS STARTER WAS ABLE TO ALLOW WATER OR SALT BRINE INTO THE STARTER DURING WINTER CONDITIONS. HIS VEHICLE LEFT HIM AND HIS THREE YEAR OLD STRANDED IN COLD WEATHER BECAUSE OF THIS PROBLEM. *KB THE ENTRY OF WATER AND/OR SALT INTO THE STARTER STOPPED THE STARTER FROM ROTATING THE ENGINE.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 835195
ODI Number 10374569
Date Filed January 6, 2011
Failure Date January 3, 2011
VIN 1G8AJ55F57Z

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.