Owner-reported complaints naming the driver-assistance system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming forward-collision avoidance, lane keeping, back-over prevention, cruise control and related electronic driver-assistance systems. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 2009 Saturn Vue submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 12 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
Stalls stops, with Engine power reduced, stabilitrak off. After turning or braking. Engine light with down arrow. Accident probability. DANGEROUS ESPECIALLY IF ON HIGHWAY OR COUNTRY RD!
TRANSMISSION STARTED SLIPPING
TRACTION CONTROL STAYS ON AND TRANSMISSION ENGAGES THEN RELEASE SLIPPING ..ALSO HYBRID SYSTEM NIT WORKING AT ALL NEVER TURN OFF AND ANY STOP LIKE A HYBRID .
WHILE DRIVING POWER STEERING WENT OUT. DIFFICULT TO CONTROL OR TURN WHEEL. ALMOST HAD AN ACCIDENT. FORTUNATELY WAS DRIVING 25MPH ON CITY STREET WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE IF ON INTERSTATE.
WHILE IN MOTION ON A CITY STREET GOING UP HILL, THE CAR WAS HAVING A PROBLEM ACCELERATING UP HILL. WHEN GOING DOWNHILL, THE CAR WOULD STOP, AND THE BRAKES WOULD LOCK UP. HAVE TO USE ACCELERATION WHEN GOING DOWNHILL IN ORDER FOR IT TO MOVE. FINALLY WHEN I MADE IT HOME AND PARKED THERE WAS A LOUD NOISE (LIKE SOMETHING WAS SCRAPING AGAINST SOMETHING). AND THEN THE SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL LIGHT CAME ON. WHEN I GOT OUT THE CAR, IT SMELLED LIKE BURNT METAL. WHEN I GOOGLED THIS PROBLEM, IT APPEARS THAT A LOT OF SATURN VUE USERS HAVE HAD THE SAME ISSUES AND IT APPEARS AS IF THE DEALERSHIPS ARE NOT SURE HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM.
PURCHASED VEHICLE WITH MILEAGE AT 25,394 5/28/2014 CURRENTLY TODAY, 3/29/2017 MILEAGE IS 53,588, AVERAGE USE PER YEAR 9,398. WITHIN THE MARCH 2017, 3/3/2017 HAD A TRANSMISSION REBUILT, 3/20/2017 CHECK ENGINE, STABILITRAK & TRACTION SIGNS FLASHING MAP SENSOR AND OXYGEN SENSORS WERE REPLACED, 3/29/2017, POWER STEERING LINE LEAK. UNDER 2009 SATURN VUE-V6 UTILITY 4D RED LINE AWD A RECALL #08284 WAS SITED ON SEP 16, 2008 WITH NHTSA ID# 08V470000. READING DESCRIPTION MY VEHICLE FALLS UNDER THE RECALL CONDITION BUT MY VIN# DOESN'T SHOW ANY RECALL ATTENTION REQUIRED. ON 3/20/2017, DEALER FOUND A RECALL 15806 ACTION 9102060 AND IT WAS CLEARED BUT I STILL CONTINUED TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH VEHICLES STEERING. I CAN'T ACCELERATE AND HAVE DIFFICULTY STEERING TO LEFT OR RIGHT...
THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHTS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DUE TO A CATALYTIC CONVERTER WAS A SURE FIX, I PAID 700 TO REPLACE AND A DAY AFTER PICKING UP FROM MY MECHANIC IT IS DOING IT AGAIN. IT WAS HESITANT AT FIRST BUT THEN IT STARTED AGAIN AND GOT WORSE. THE RPM ACCELERATING BUT SPEEDOMETER SLOWING DOWN. I TOOK IT BACK TO MY MECHANIC, HE READ SOMETHING TO ME ABOUT THE REPLACEMENT OF CONVERTER, IT SAID TO DRIVE IT FOR 1 HOUR AT HIGH SPEEDS TO BURN OFF INSIDE THE NEW CONVERTER, RESET THE LIGHT WHICH SHOULD FIX THE PROBLEM. I HAD ALREADY DRIVEN FOR 1 HOUR BECAUSE I LIVE AN HOUR AWAY. I HEAD HOME AND AS I'M GETTING ON THE ENTRANCE RAMP TO I-75 SOMETHING CAME THROUGH MY VENTS AND IN MY THROAT AND CHEST AND I START COUGHING REALLY BAD AND TIGHTNESS IN CHEST. I GOT UP TO 55MPH AND THE TRUCK STARTED JERKING AND I NOTICED THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS DOWN TO THE FLOOR AND MY BRAKES LOCKED UP. IT WILL NOT GO MORE THAN 20-30MPH. I PULLED OVER TO THE SHOULDER AND WHILE STILL IN DRIVE THE TRUCK WILL NOT MOVE. CHECK ENGINE, ABS AND TRACTION LIGHTS CAME ON. I CALLED MECHANIC AND HE SUGGESTED I ROLL DOWN MY WINDOWS AND GET SOME AIR BECAUSE I WAS COUGHING SO BAD AND HAVE IT TOWED TO BE SAFE. CALLED ONSTAR AND NOW ABS CODES, TOLD TO TAKE IN FOR SERVICE WITHIN 7 DAYS, I ADVISED HER CANNOT DRIVE OVER 20MPH AND REQUESTED A TOW. A STATE TROOPER STOPPED TO ASSIST ME, SAID TO GET IN SAFER PLACE SO HE HELD TRAFFIC AND DROVE BEHIND ME TO GET OFF INTERSTATE WHILE I WAIT FOR TOW TRUCK. 7:32PM IN THE MIDST OF RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC AND 50 MILES FROM HOME. I WAS HORRIFIED! I WAITED 2 HOURS FOR A TOW THAT NEVER SHOWED, HAD TO GET A RIDE HOME AGAIN. EVENTUALLY GOT VEHICLE TO A GM DEALER. I RCVD A CALL FROM THE SERVICE DEPT WITH A QUOTE OF $5K OF REPAIRS TO INCLUDE A BRAKE JOB BECAUSE REAR PADS WERE METAL TO METAL. HAD BRAKES CHECKED 1WEEK BEFORE AND HAD 30% LEFT, LEADS ME TO BELIEVE IT WAS BRAKE DUST MAKING ME SICK.
I WAS DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY, CRUISING AT 70 IN THE FAR LEFT HAND LANE, AND SUDDENLY MY VEHICLE SPEED DROPPED TO 40 MPH AND ERROR CODES STARTED FLASHING ON THE DASH (DECREASE ENGINE, ENGINE, STABILITY TRACK SYSTEM, TRACTION CONTROL, AND OTHERS I DON'T REMEMBER). WITH SEMI TRUCKS AND A HIGH VOLUME OF TRAFFIC BEHIND ME AND BLOWING THEIR HORNS, I ATTEMPTED TO CHANGE LANES IN AN EFFORT TO PULL OVER ON THE RIGHT SHOULDER AS GEORGIA LAW STATES...BUT IT WOULD NOT ACCELERATE AND CONTINUED TO DECREASE. IT WAS BY THE GRACE OF GOD THAT I DID NOT GET HIT BY THE VEHICLES AND SEMI TRUCKS SLAMMING ON THEIR BRAKES TO AVOID HITTING ME. I NEARLY MISSED THE OFF RAMP. OFF ON THE EXIT RAMP WAS NOT ABLE TO MAKE THE LIGHT SO PULLED OVER TO RIGHT SIDE. MY CAR MADE A HIGH PITCHED SOUND LIKE IT DOES WHEN I REALLY STEP ON THE GAS, IT WAS REVVING AND NOW PULLING FORWARD. IT CONTINUED TO MAKE THIS NOISE WHILE I WAS AT A STOP LIGHT, NOT MOVING, TRIED PUTTING IT IN NEUTRAL, PARK, NOTHING WOULD MAKE THE REVVING STOP. FINALLY, LIGHT TURNED GREEN AND THE CAR JERKED ME FORWARD BUT THEN WOULD NOT ACCELERATE AGAIN AS I ATTEMPTED TO MAKE IT TO THE GAS STATION OFF THE EXIT. I PULLED INTO THE LOT AND AGAIN WHEN I BRAKED TO PUT IN REVERSE TO PARK IT STARTED REVVING HIGH AND JERKED FORWARD AGAIN THEN BACKWARDS. I TURNED OFF THE CAR AND LET SIT 10 MINUTES. TURNED IT ON, IT WOULD NOT GO AWAY THE ENGINE WAS IN REVVING SO HIGH I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BLOW. I TURN THE ENGINE OFF AND HAD THE VEHICLE TOWED FROM 30+ MILES AWAY FROM HOME. *TR
2009 SATURN VUE. DRIVER STATES THE ENGINE STALLED REPEATEDLY, KEYS BECAME STUCK IN IGNITION AND THE AIRBAG AND STABILITY LIGHTS CAME ON. *TA
WAS ON INTERSTATE WITH MY 10 YR OLD DAUGHTER WITH ME WITH CRUISE SET AT 75MPH, LANE WAS MERGING, SO I ACCELERATED TO GET PAST A SEMI TO GET OVER. LET UP OFF GAS AND CAR KEPT ACCELERATING FASTER. HIT BRAKE AND NOTHING HAPPENED. CAR STILL KEPT ACCELERATING. TURNED OFF CRUISE AND LAID ON BRAKE BUT CAR STILL KEPT ACCELERATING. SPEED REACHED 110MPH AND CARS WERE IN FRONT OF ME IN ALL LANES. FINALLY PUT IN NEUTRAL AND ENGINE REVVED UP UNTIL FINALLY A LOUD POP NOISE AND IT STOPPED ACCELERATING. THIS IS THE 3RD TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED SINCE I BOUGHT THE CAR A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. HOWEVER THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT I WAS UNABLE TO GET IT TO STOP ACCELERATING. I WAS IN FEAR FOR THE LIFE OF MY DAUGHTER AND MYSELF! I TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY WERE UNABLE TO DUPLICATE ISSUE. THEY RECOMMENDED PUTTING A NEW THROTTLE BODY IN AND DOING A FULL SYSTEM FLUSH WHICH WILL COST AROUND $800. I JUST HAD THE TRANSMISSION REPLACED A FEW MONTHS AGO AND WORK DONE TO CORRECT TRACTION CONTROL, STABILITRAK AND ABS ISSUE. I HAVE DONE A SEARCH ON THE INTERNET AND HAVE FOUND OTHER PEOPLE WITH THE SAME MAKE AND MODEL CAR THAT HAVE HAD THE SAME COMPLAINT ABOUT THE ACCELERATOR STICKING AND CAR SPEEDING UP ON ITS OWN AND NOT BEING ABLE TO STOP IT BY BRAKING. HOWEVER THE DEALERSHIP SERVICE DEPT WAS UNABLE TO FIND ANY RELATED RECALLS. *TR
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2009 SATURN VUE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 65 MPH, THE CHECK ENGINE WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED AS THE ENGINE POWER REDUCED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A PRIVATE MECHANIC WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE THROTTLE BODY NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 140,000.
WHILE DRIVING AT APPROXIMATELY 30 MPH PARTS OF THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER FAILED. THIS INCLUDED THE SPEEDOMETER, ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL AND DRIVER INFORMATION CENTER. DRIVER PULLED OVER AND TURNED OFF THE VEHICLE. RESTARTING THE VEHICLE DID NOT CORRECT THE CONDITION. THE VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN APPROXIMATELY A MILE TO HOME AND SHUT OFF. STARTING THE VEHICLE LATER RESULTED IN THE COMPONENTS WORKING PROPERLY. NOTE THAT ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS THE DIC (DRIVER INFORMATION CENTER) HAS RESET ITSELF. VEHICLE HAS NEVER BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT AND IS MAINTAINED IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. *TR
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