hi all, When I drive the car, it makes a clunking noise whenever the gears shift. It's automatic. Then when the engine warms up a little, there's also a scraping noise. None of this is bad enough to make the car undriveable, but of course I don't like it. It seems like when I fill the gas...

Both of our remote keyfobs for our 2001 Lw200 has ceased to function. The metal clip holding the battery has broken on both. Two questions, how compatible are the different keyfobs? I found a seller on eBay with three fobs that look similar, same buttons, but different housing. Will they be able...

Saturn (GM) STANDARD OPERATING PROCEEDURE When we at GM discover an epidemic costly flaw in our cars (like casting flaws in our cylinder heads that will cause the head to eventually CRACK); and before we become aware of the problem, tens of thousands of cars with the flaw have gone off the...

Dear Mister Fact; > > > Hello, > > I also am very frustrated with the integrity of the > saturn car dealership here in (deleted). I > have been on top of every check-up in the 43,000 > miles of my car's life. I own a 2003 Saturn Ion. On > January 28, I took my car in because my coolant > light was...

Dear Mister Fact; > > > Hello, > > I also am very frustrated with the integrity of the > saturn car dealership here in (deleted) I > have been on top of every check-up in the 43,000 > miles of my car's life. I own a 2003 Saturn Ion. On > January 28, I took my car in because my coolant > light was...

I'm putting new valve stem seals on my 1998 SL1. Its turning out to be a lot more difficult than I anticipated. The first major problem was removing the crankshaft bolt. After wrestling with it by hand, I read about the starter trick. That didn't work either. Then I found a post somewhere that...

Hi all, I am looking around for a stowable (probably fabric or vinyl?) container I can mount on top of my '96 SW2 wagon to carry camping gear on long drives. It needs to be waterproof, not just resistant, and something like 15 cubic feet. It needs to be stowable because I have nowhere to store...

We owned two Saturns. Traded in the first one before anything went wrong but the second one, an LS2 was a huge pile of crap. How's $600 to replace the thermostat because they put it *inside* the engine block?

Wife is itching for a new kiddie-carrier... Considering it... But would love to know all I can about it's weaknesses first. :) Joe in Northern, NJ - V#8013-R Currently Riding The "Mother Ship" http://yunx.com/valk.htm Ride a motorcycle in or near NJ? http://tinyurl.com/hmzj

I pulled into my driveway and shut the car off. Something just didn't feel right as the engine shut down. It had been driving just fine up to that point. When the engine was started about 30 minutes later, ran like crud. RPMs were all over the place and sounded awful. At high idle things...

Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue and, if so, how they have fixed it. I've got an '03 Ion that very occasionally doesn't want to start...battery has power, it'll often crank a bit over and then die with the "service engine" note appearing. I suspect it is a loose wire near the...

Hi all, I'll be doing some body work on my Ion in the next little bit (cold weather and sliding into things don't mix...dent resistant panels tend to get brittle in the cold). I'm wondering if anyone has an exploded view of the passenger side front of an Ion...I want to make sure I am getting...

hello.. my 2003 ion was rear ended, and a the whole back end had to be replaced. I was examining the work, and I noticed from the inside of the trunk, while looking from the back seat area, I noticed light leaking in from the upper corners of the trunk. I ran a hose around the trunk, and from...

I was thinking about using some of that Prestone Fuel Injector Cleaner on my L-300 but I was wondering if it might harm my engine? I was also wondering how well a $5 product could clean Fuel Injectors on a car? So what do you think is it worth it, or is it a waste of money to use it? And would it...

OK, Thanks for all the replys! I guess I will try the Chevron with Techron, since that seems to be the popular one here. Thanks again for the help!

Neil emails misterfact: cracked head on my 2001 L200 at 54,000 miles. No >> explaination from Saturn of Orem, UT except "one-in >> a million fluke" and after I insisted that it was >> their problem (they later admitted it was a casting >> defect that caused the crack) they settled on >> splitting...

Now that the weather is warming up I might take a stab at fixing the odometer in my 94 SC2. I have the 2 new gears that should get it going again. It was clicking on and off for a couple years and then stopped completely last June. Has anyone done this before? Fred

A Usenet troll has been spoofing my e-mail address in posts on rec.autos.makers.saturn. This began on 12 May 2008. In order to distinguish between forged posts, and genuine posts, I've set up a web page with the dates and times of the forged posts and the genuine posts. See...

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Since you guys know a lot about Saturns, and Cars, in general I thought mabe you could help me out here with an O/T question. The other day I cleaned my roll up metal garage door, and it seemed all right at first, but now it has these spots on it like Oxidation. Is there any way to fix this? Thanks...