Ten problems related to equipment have been reported for the 2002 Saturn LS. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2002 Saturn LS based on all problems reported for the 2002 LS.
The contact owns a 2002 Saturn j-type. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the vehicle's brake lights failed to illuminate. The contact related the failure to NHTSA campaign number: 05v245000 (exterior lighting), however, the part to do the recall repair is no longer being manufactured. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired by an independent mechanic or dealer. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 118,000.
Approx. March 2013 started having this problem, never before! driving home as it got dark and head lights running on dusk to dawn "sensor" head lights all of a sudden started going from day time running lights to low beam and back to high beam the whole ride home which took approx. 1 hour. Has happened again off and on and had the car in the shop twice for this problem and they said they could not find anything wrong and that the e-mails they get says it is " normal operating conditions???" I don't think so when your lights keep going up and down ( high- low) and expecting someone thinking you are letting them out and pull out in from of you. Garage claims there is no solution, so this is why we are writing, what do we do?? realize it is a 2002 but never had the problem and now it's not able to be solved?? very scary when driving at night??.
Timing chain broke. Complete loss of power and destruction of engine. No noise or warning beforehand. Traveling in center lane of three lane interstate highway during afternoon rush hour traffic. Lucky to make it to shoulder without accident. Could have easily been injured or killed if stopped on roadway. After reading about the investigation, I'm appalled that no information has been sent by gm suggesting a replacement of the chain tensioner and oiler. I could have done this myself. Instead, I spent $2000 for an engine.
Vehicle would not start. Mechanic diagnosed a faulty crank sensor. Cost to replace $160. 50.
Car running very rough. Mechanic diagnosed a faulty camshaft position sensor. Cost to replace sensor $264. 14.
2002 Saturn l 200 had complete engine failure while on route 197 and car stopped in middle of road and wouldn't restart. Car has about 60k miles on it. Fortunately my daughter was able to get the car off the road. Problem was found to be timing chain failure with destruction of the engine. Saturn reviewed our maintenance record, deemed it "excellent" and said it would cost me only $3500 to get a rebuilt engine put in. They refused to acknowledge any problem with timing chain. I am reluctantly going forward with repair because I can't afford a new car now, but I think this problem could lead to more serious consequences for other drivers and timing chain problem in all l200 should prompt recall.
May 27, 2008 -while at a traffic light the car cut off when I tried to accelerate. The car was towed to the dealership where they installed a new fuel pump. Four days later the same thing occurred. Fuel pump was replaced(3x's)this incident has occurred a total of five times. The fourth time they replaced the pcm( computer module) and it cut off again, the car is still @ the dealership. I have had the car in my possession for less than two weeks since the initial incident, in may it is now July 15,2008.
Odometer reads 694978 and that is not correct. Actual mileage on the odometer should be less than 20000. The trip-meter doesn't not move from zero and the 694978 doesn't change. I am driving it but the mileage isn't adding up. How do I determine when ii require service??.
Consumer can't identify the problem, and will provide further details.
While driving at 65 mph, vehicle suddenly lost all power. Consumer was unable to restart vehicle, so they had it towed to the dealership. Ts.