1996 Saturn SL seats problems
Owners reported seats problems in 15 complaints for the 1996 Saturn SL, 4% of the complaints on file.
At a glance
- Complaints
- 15 4% of this year's complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 11 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 9 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
What the data shows
These complaints mention 11 crashes, 9 injuries.
What owners wrote
The vehicle was rear ended and both front seats collapsed backward completly, anyone sitting in the back seats would have sustained severe injuries. If a child was in the back seat chances are he would not survive. Their have been other incidents of the backseats collapsing upon rear impact and saturn is aware of this problem. They have done nothing about it. Very dangerous for any rear seat passangers, espicially children, which the law states that a child under 100 lb.
Unsatisfactory responses from saturn customer service; repairs that should be covered per californias lemon law for our 1996 saturn sl1 with only 46k miles. Rote to GM & saturn ceo's. They lie and do not stand behind their crappy product. We will never buy american again!per my recent conversations with saturn customer service, there has been absolutely no effort of goodwill to reimburse and fix the below aforementioned mechanical problems from the inferior materials used in building our saturn vehicle.
Other problems reported for the 1996 Saturn SL
- Engine 68 complaints
- Brakes 53 complaints
- Electrical system 45 complaints
- Transmission 24 complaints
- Steering 21 complaints
- Air bags 19 complaints
- Cruise control 18 complaints
- Wipers, windshield & visibility 17 complaints