general problems of the 2005 Saturn VUE - part 2

Ignition tumbler does not work appropriately and key is easily removed when car is on and when car is turned off it has been very difficult to turn to the on position to start the car. Last week after turning the car off, the ignition tumbler failed to operate in the proper manner when attempting to restart the vehicle. I have been stuck in the vehicle many times fiddling with the key to,try to start the vehicle. This lack of function caused an entire Saturday afternoon, a tow to dealership for repair, inconvenienced me for three days with no vehicle and a very expensive repair. Only to find out that it wasn't covered under warranty because of the year, when this clearly has been an issue with Saturn Vues for the preceding years.

I was driving down the road when the transmisssion started making a grinding sound. I pulled over and had the car towed to the Saturn dealership in durham nc. They fixed the transmission at no cost exept I was out the money for towing. At this time the service technician told me that there was a class action suit and that the transmission would be replaced at no cost. For me and if I sold it. The next person to own the vehicle. Approxiamtely a month later the transmission went out again on the car. I once again had it towed to the durham Saturn and they fixed it at not price. It has just gone out again 1-6-2015 and when I called the gm dealership, I called two of them thompsons gm in raleigh and hendricks in raleigh they told me that they won't fix it anymore that they only had to fix it for 5 years or 75,000 miles or it was then increased to 8 years or 100,000 miles. So I am outside of either of these perameters so they said it was going to cost 5000. 00 dollars to fix the transmission. 4000. 00 for parts and approx. 1000. 00 for the work or they will give me 5000 dollar credit for the car as a trade in on a brand new gm vehicle that I will have to buy to get any trade in value for the vehicle. The vehicle is still in perfect condition because I have taken really good care of it. It is the first vehicle that I have driven off the showroom floor and I love it, but they need to make this right. The should at least of let me know that they weren't going to honor the class action lawsuit anymore so that I had a chance to get rid of it before it came to this. They said that they sent out paperwork to extend the warranty on the car, but I wasn't going to spend thousands of extra dollars paying for a warranty that would have obviously not been worth it since nothing else has goine wrong with the car. The one issue I was worried about I thought was covered in the suit.

Faulty ignition! needs to be included in the gm recall!!! I am not certain on the dates of the incidents or the mileage - that is all on file at merit cheverolet in st. Paul, mn - I placed this information in the form because it is required in order to submit - I can retrieve the dates of service and mileage if needed otherwise, the repairs are filed!!! the ignition switch locks up - unable to turn the key to start the vehicle. Takes great manipulation (jiggling) to get it to turn. Eventually, completely locks and must be towed to repair. Only have 1 car key and 2 house keys on the ring. Have had new keys cut. Ignition still fails and it is getting ready to fail again! key has also come out of the ignition while vehicle is running - same issue with gm ignition involved in recalls. Ignition has been replaced under warranty at minimum . . . . 2 times through merit cheverolet on hwy 94 & century/120 in st paul mn. May have been a third replacement at another repair shop at owner's cost - looking for the receipt and location for that. The ignition is getting ready to fail again. The 2005 Saturn Vue needs to be included in the current gm recall!!!.

We have had trouble with the ignition since we've had it. At first we couldn't get the key out of ignition, had to jiggle steering colume to remove key. Had the ignition switch cleaned. Now key just falls out of ignition while running. It's difficult to get anyones attention on this matter since Saturn is no longer available. Rohrmans in lafayette, in. Use to take care of our problems with it, when Saturn went out g. M. Directed us to defouws in lafayette. We had a 2003 Saturn before and had no problems with it, so please help us with this problem. Thank you: joyce neal.

The igntion on this car keeps locking up. . I have taken it to a dealer thinking there was a recall for this. I would love an opportunity to talk to someone about this.

Dt: the consumer owns a 2005 Saturn Vue. The consumer stated her vehicle was not equipped with a door ajar feature. She stated she was driving down the road and her front passenger door flew open. The dealership was just as shocked as she was because this feature was not included on her vehicle. 8jb.

(1) air bags-I was involved in a multiple-vehicle accident caused by black ice in Dec, 2005 and not one of the airbags deployed. This was concerning. (2) brakes-from day one, when it rains, my brakes sound like an old person trying to move. (3) ignition-too many times to mention. When I would put the key in the ignition and try to start the car, it wouldn't move and I'd have to jolt the "frozen" steering wheel to finally get the key to turn/car to start. (4) I've seen both the brakes & ignition issues in other people's posts. Just wanted to put this out there for information's sake. Otherwise, the car's been great to me. 10 years old, only 47k miles on it and I just recently had to replace the battery for the first time ever.