2004 SATURN ION — Complaint #923907
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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:ANTI-THEFT DEVICES filed June 20, 2012
NHTSA complaint #923907 (ODI reference 10462371) concerns a 2004 SATURN ION and was filed on June 20, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 15, 2012. The vehicle had 110,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:electrical:anti-theft devices, 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 equipment:electrical:anti-theft devices 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 2004 SATURN ION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
BELOW A CERTAIN TEMPERATURE IF THE CAR IS NOT WARM OR THE IGNITION IS NOT WARM WHEN TRYING TO START THE VEHICLE; THE ANTI THEFT SYSTEM TURNS ON. ONCE THE ANTI THEFT SYSTEM IS ON I CANNOT START THE VEHICLE FOR AT LEAST 15 MINUTES. USUALLY MAKING ME LATE FOR SOMETHING. I HAVE HAD THIS REPLACED AND WOULD LIKE COMPENSATION IF POSSIBLE. *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 923907 |
| ODI Number | 10462371 |
| Date Filed | June 20, 2012 |
| Failure Date | February 15, 2012 |
| VIN | 1G8AF52F04Z |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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