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2000 Saturn SL brakes problems

16 complaints about brakes have been filed for the 2000 Saturn SL, which is 8% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
16 8% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
2 and 1
Injuries and deaths
1 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 2 crashes, 1 fire, 1 injury.

What owners wrote

I was traveling on the freeway at 75 MPH (speed limit.) the truck in front of me hit the brakes. I applied my brakes as I should have had enough distance to slow down enough. My brakes locked-up and I slid into the pick-up truck in front of me at about 65 MPH. The seat belts worked, but the air bags did not deploy. My car was totaled. I was injured and taken by ambulance to the hospital.

Reported at 89,000 miles, November 2006 CrashInjury

Rotors needed to be turned at about 25000 miles due to vibration when stopping, this was done under warranty, I was told they would only due it once. The car now has 62000 miles on it and it has the original pads, they are do not need to be replaced due to wear. But the rotors need to be turned again, looking at other problems on this site, I am not the only one with this problem. I had a honda with over 200000 miles on original rotors?

Reported at 25,000 miles, February 2004

Other problems reported for the 2000 Saturn SL

Brakes problems in other years

Brakes problems across all Saturn models