Total Complaints
1 filings
SATURN S-SERIES-WAGON · model year
1 NHTSA complaints. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 1994SATURNS-SERIES-WAGON carries 1 consumer safety complaint in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 1994 S-SERIES-WAGON is structure:body:roof and pillars with 1 filings. Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 14 investigation files overlapping the 1994 S-SERIES-WAGON. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
Total Complaints
1 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| STRUCTURE:BODY:ROOF AND PILLARS | 1 |
DT: CALLER HAS RUST IN BOTTOM OF ROOF AND PILLARS OF HIS STATION WAGON. CALLER HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS HAPPENING UNTIL RUST CAME OVER THE PLASTIC THAT COVERED IT UP. DEALER SAID THEY HAVE QUICK FIX FOR THIS, AND CALLER FELT MANUFACTURER SHOULD HAVE TOLD CONSUMERS OF THIS PROBLEM, SO HE COULD WATCH FOR IT BEFORE IT GOT TOO BAD. CALLER FELT MANUFACTURER SHOULD MAKE GOOD ON WARRANTY ON SHEET METAL BY SENDING OUT LETTERS ON THIS PROBLEM TO ALLOW THE FIX BE MADE BY MANUFACTURER AND NOT CONSUMER. CALLER STATED MANUFACTURER KNEW ABOUT PROBLEM LONG BEFORE, AND SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. ALSO, CALLER CLAIMED THERE WERE 22 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE TO FIX THIS PROBLEM.*AK *TT *NM
Mileage: 97,000
Electric Power Steering Failure
Electric Power Steering Failure
OUTSIDE DOOR HANDLES STICK UNLATCHED
TIMING CHAIN BREAKS, ENGINE STALL
TIMING CHAIN FAILURE-STALL
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 1994 SATURN S-SERIES-WAGON; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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