Three problems related to manual transmission floor shifter have been reported for the 2008 Saturn Aura. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2008 Saturn Aura based on all problems reported for the 2008 Aura.
Power train:automatic transmission:lever and linkage:floor shift the shift cable in my vehicle has been replaced three times in the last four years! each time it failed I was in the processing of reversing into traffic and when I when I shifted to drive the transmission cable snapped and the vehicle carried on rolling backwards! I have paid for two repairs myself one was shortly before the recall, it was fixed again under the recalled and it was repaired again last week at my expense by holly Chevrolet on 2/12/18. This is extremely dangerous and I'm just fortunate not to have hit somebody or have somebody hit me! all repairs were completed bu holly Chevrolet on each occasion, of course , I also had to pay the towing costs as well. The 2014 recall obviously didn't work if this has failed again. I should add that my vehicle only has 73000 miles on it and I drive 20 miles a day round trip.
On Saturday, June 14 my car would not start. I moved the floor gear shift deeper into the park position and it started. On Monday, June 16 I parked my car after purchasing an item at drive-through window. When I attempted to start it, it would not start. The gear shift moved through all of the indicators (prd. . . ) and the car began to roll backwards nearly hitting another car. I called for a tow, and the driver noted the problem. Today, pep boys completed repair of the the gear shift assembly. There was a missing part. . Read more...
The contact owns a 2008 Saturn Aura. While stopped with the gear in drive and the brake pedal depressed, the contact switched the gear to park and noticed that the gear would not engage in park. The failure recurred intermittently and more often when the weather was warm. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer for diagnostic. There was an investigation under NHTSA action number: ea11015 (power train: automatic transmission: park/neutral start switch power train:automatic transmission:lever and linkage:floor shift power train: automatic transmission: gear position indication (prndl) that could possibly have been related to the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 30,000.