Three problems related to air bag on-off switch have been reported for the 2008 Saturn Outlook. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2008 Saturn Outlook based on all problems reported for the 2008 Outlook.
Passenger side air bag, seat switch or whatever intermittent for along while. Worked most of time. Now has 100000 on it. Took in Jan. 24, 2015, for recall on connector did not fix, now does not work at all. At least before I took it in it worked most of the time. Now get message service air bag, and the passenger side light on most of the time. Talked to Saturn customer service, just got run around and no help.
In April 2014, my passenger airbag light indicator begin to read: "off" while the passenger was in the seat. Sometimes it says "on" at first, then switches to "off". Very few times has it worked properly since April. (now August 1st). Took it to the dealer for the side airbag recall and was hoping it was related to the passenger seat. . The service advisor indicated it was a totally separate issue. Cost to just check it cost me $105. 3 hours later, the advisor informed me it would cost over $500 or more to replace. I declined. Seems like gm would include this as a recall, especially to those with vehicles indicating "off". Knowing you don't have a primary airbag that doesn't deploy, I would think this would be an extremely high risk issue and would be on the top of gm's list of recalls?.
The contact owns a 2008 Saturn Outlook. The contact stated that the service air bag warning indicator was illuminated. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer where it was diagnosed that the passenger presence switch and control module failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 60,000.