The Recall Desk

Vehicle

Saturn Vue

1 recall affects this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

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  • Severity pendingNHTSA·14V490000·2014-08-08

    General Motors Recalls 2002-2004 Saturn Vues for Ignition Key Defect

    General Motors is recalling 2002-2004 Saturn Vues because the key may be removed from the ignition while the vehicle is not in the Off position, creating a risk of the vehicle rolling away.

    Product
    SATURN — SATURN VUE
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide

NHTSA crash-test safety rating

Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.

Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.

Wider context for this vehicle

Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.

Federal investigations

  • PE09016 Preliminary Evaluation · latches/locks/linkages:doors:latch

Complaint clusters with no matching recall

  • 2007 · electrical 112 complaints, median 80,000 mi
    Includes 1 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2008 · powertrain 107 complaints, median 73,400 mi
    Includes 1 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2006 · electrical 86 complaints, median 80,000 mi
    Includes 6 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2007 · airbags 74 complaints, median 81,233 mi
  • 2006 · airbags 71 complaints, median 75,750 mi

Technical service bulletins

545 manufacturer service bulletins across 6 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

  • 2010: 4.5/5 · 6 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
  • 2009: 3.6/5 · 125 complaints · most complained-of: steering
  • 2008: 3.3/5 · 406 complaints · most complained-of: powertrain
  • 2007: 3.6/5 · 312 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
  • 2006: 3.6/5 · 300 complaints · most complained-of: electrical

This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.

Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.

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