Four problems related to transmission slip out of gear have been reported for the 2007 Saturn Aura. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2007 Saturn Aura based on all problems reported for the 2007 Aura.
Car began to knock loudly on driver side front and pull to left when driving at speed , front struts broken & replaced a approx cost $700 5 days following that , car would not shift out of 1st gear or roll faster than 15 mph at 5 to 6000 rpm. Vehicle was towed twice and now waiting transmission rebuild due to well documented failure of gm wave plate in the 6 speed transmission, cost approx = $3500.
Vehicle could not be shifted out of drive. No matter where the shift level was placed, the vehicle remained in drive. Once the vehicle was turned off, it could not be restarted and began to roll backwards. The emergency brake was set, and the vehicle had to be towed to a dealer.
The contact owns a 2000 Saturn Aura. While traveling 5 mph, the contact attempted to shift into reverse and noticed that the vehicle would not shift out of the drive gear. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The current and failure mileages were 109,000.
My 2007 Saturn Aura failed to shift out of first gear while driving on a highway today this is an automatic transmission. While driving the car the transmission missed gears then would not shift out of first gear resulting in not being able to drive the car. I was able to get off the highway, park and call a wrecker to take to the dealer. I purchased the car in March 2007 and as noted only have 70,900 miles on the car. This car has had all maintenance work done and has been well taken care of by me and my wife. After parking the car I could do nothing with it other than start it and move it in first gear only to get it in position for the wrecker to pick up. The car had to be pushed backward as the automatic shifter would go into reverse but the transmission would not engage and it would not go backwards. This incident was very sudden while driving and the transmission was shifting in and out of different gears but this stopped when it dropped to 1st gear resulting in the car quickly lunging slower with very high rpm numbers.