Battery problems of the 2007 Saturn ION

Tl- the contact owns a 2007 Saturn Ion. The contact stated that he was unable to remove the key from the ignition and the vehicle continued to run. The dealer advised the contact to remove several fuses and disconnect the battery. No formal repairs were made and the contact was awaiting a service appointment. The manufacturer was aware of the failure. The current and failure mileages were 64,000. The VIN was unavailable. Bw.

Returned home and tried to turn off car but key was stuck in the ignition. The only way to turn the car off was to remove a fuse and unhook the battery. After looking online and on this website, I find this is a common problem with Saturn Ions.

The contact owns 2007 Saturn Ion. The contact stated that the key was stuck in the ignition and she was unable to turn the vehicle off. She also disconnected the battery and the vehicle would not shut off. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileages were 71,000.

My Saturn 2007 Ion will not shut off & I cannot get the key to release out of the ignition. I had to pull the ignition fuse & disconnect the battery. I called Saturn who denied the problems with the ignition systems. I went onto consumer affairs. Com, entered consumer complaints about Saturn Ion ignition lock & pulled up 50 pages of documented problems concerning the passlock system. Why has there not been a recall on this matter? not 50 incidents, 100's of incidents. My car went out of warranty 1 month ago. It is estimated at over $500. 00 to repair with no guarantee it will not occur again! please help us & check out this problem. I read that gm issued a service bulletin 04-08-45-005d concerning this matter.

I came home last night around 10:40pm, went to shut my car off and the key would not come out of the ignition - it was stuck "on". I took my car to my parents house (my dad has tools) and after several failed attempts to get the key out, I called onstar and they dispatched a local tow truck company to come. The guy was very rude and basically made me feel stupid for having this happen and acted like he couldn't help me with that, so I canceled the tow. We pulled some fuses and disconnected the battery and figured since at that time it was 12:30am that I would call Saturn in the morning. I went on the consumer affairs website and found this has happened alot to people all over the country with my same car! and nothing is being done about getting a recall, and they are charging people up to $500 or more to fix it. I think gm should recall this ignition lock and all of these charges for the defective part should be covered by them. It's not the car owner's fault that the part is bad. I only have approx. $50k miles on my 2007 Ion. I told the Saturn service department I would call them back as I am not in a position to pay that right now, so I am not sure what I am going to do.

Beginning last week, once the car has been started , it cannot be shut off with the key. Luckily, we do not garage this vehicle! we can put the car into"park", but the key will not turn in the ignition to any other position, and the key cannot be removed from the car. To stop the car, we pull a fuse and disconnect the battery. To start the car, we reconnect the battery and replace the fuse. While this is not as life threatening as other vehicle problems recently, it is wide-spread. When I went on-line to find a solution (Saturn said all of its tech's had gone home early) I found hundreds of the same incident.

I have a 2007 Saturn Ion, about two weeks ago I went to work when I park and tried to turn the car off the key wouldn't turn off it was stuck, the only way tu turn the car was disconnecting the battery, when I got off work I connected the battery again and I was able to turn the car on but not off so every way a went for the past two weeks from 08-06-10 til now I had to open the hood and disconnect the battery I just don't have money to spent on an issue that has more the 5000 complains regarding the same problem with the ignition on a Saturn brand. . Read more...

I get to work today and I can't cut off my 2007 Saturn Ion. Contact the dealership and only remedy provided is to dangerously disconnect the wire harness under the wheel from the battery to turn the car off and then pay $300-500 dollars to have it repaired with no reason why it failed or that it won't go out again. This is dangerous and the parts are defective and should be recalled by Saturn.

This has not been a true safety item yet, but it has the potential of being one, and if you look on-line under "key stuck in ignition" you will be amazed how many people have had this problem. The car companies apparently know about it because the have installed a small cover under the steering column to remove and push a button to release the key so it can be turned and removed. Many people like us have paid over $500 and still have the problem. Looks like there should be a recall to fix this. Some folk couldn't even shut the engine off and had to disconnect the battery. That' ridiculous. I'm sure I speak for hundreds and maybe thousands of people that wish someone would do something about this problem. Please take the time to look at what is on the internet concerning this. Not everyone has a computer and access to this information. Thank you.

Once car was on couldn't turn key back to stop vehicle and couldn't remove key. Had to pull ignition fuse under hood and disconnect battery in trunk every time we wanted to start or stop the vehicle. Finally got a new ignition built and that solved the problem but of course warranty was up and this came out of our pockets.