1995 Saturn SC1 problems
Owners have filed 73 complaints with NHTSA about the 1995 Saturn SC1. Seats is the most reported problem area, at 26% of complaints. Next are brakes (14%) and air bags (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 73 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Seats 26% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 12 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 12 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 12 complaints mention a crash; 12 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 89% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1995 ranks 4th most-complained-about out of 8 model years of the Saturn SC1 with enough data (36 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
When vehicle crashed into the passenger's side of a ford, f150, saturn traveling a little over 35 MPH, there was no deployment of the driver's side or passenger's side air bags. Vehicle will be repaired. Please provide any further information.
Failure on the driver anad passenger side air bag consumer was involved in a head on collision and the air bags did not deploy.
I was rear-ended by a large SUV while I was stopped in traffic and was pushed into another vehicle. I was wearing my seat belt. My neck snapped in during the accident and the entire driver seat collapsed and reclined fully during impact.
The timing chain was replaced under warranty once and I have had to replace two alternators due to this. Now, my timing chain is going out again. The car is a 1995 saturn sc2. Today it only has 66,000 miles on it and is eight years old. I change the oil every 3,000 miles. But, I also have to put oil in it in between changes. Now, my moon roof won't close all the way. It will open all the way but it won;t close.
My 1995 saturn sc-2 began evaporating motor oil, at the rate of a full quart every 300 miles. I took it to the dealer and they did a full engine rebuild, which was very expensive. My car performed slightly better afterwards but needed follow-up adjustments of the repaired parts; saturn failed to honor their warranty on these repairs so I declined to have them done.