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2008 Saturn Outlook air bags problems

Owners reported air bags problems in 98 complaints for the 2008 Saturn Outlook, 11% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
98 11% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
80,000 miles 67 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
3 and 1
Injuries and deaths
5 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When air bags problems show up

Air bags complaints by mileage, 2008 Saturn Outlook Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 80,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 7 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 4 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 11 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 11 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 18 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 7 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 4 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 3 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 1 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 1 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 80,000 miles
Based on 67 complaints that include mileage. 33% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
View the numbers
MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles7
20k to 40k miles4
40k to 60k miles11
60k to 80k miles11
80k to 100k miles18
100k to 120k miles7
120k to 140k miles4
140k to 160k miles3
160k to 180k miles1
180k to 200k miles1
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 67 air bags complaints that report mileage, the median is about 80,000 miles, and 33% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 3 crashes, 1 fire, 5 injuries.

What owners wrote

Tl* the contact owns a 2008 saturn outlook. The contact stated that while driving approximately 65 MPH, the vehicle became uncontrollable and hydro-planed. The contact crashed into a tree and the air bags failed to deploy. There were five children in the vehicle who sustained injuries from bruising, contusions and lacerations that required stitches. A police report was filed of the incident. The vehicle was destroyed and towed to a salvage yard.

Reported at 103,000 miles, March 2014 CrashInjury

There was recall on the passenger side seat airbag the dealer supposedly fixed it but the code is back on #b0081 called dealer they said oh well the recall was fixed well if it was the code should not be back on for the same thing. Also there was a recall on the transmisson took it several times to dealer said nothing wrong then finally the solineds went out replaced them 1 month later the whole transmison went this was on a GM recall and I feel because I had complained several times before that GM should…

Reported at 125,000 miles, February 2017

Other problems reported for the 2008 Saturn Outlook

Air bags problems in other years

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