Saturn ION: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Saturn ION, model years 2003 to 2008. NHTSA has 4,209 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 6 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 15 May 2019. Recall file through 29 Sep 2026.

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Saturn ION: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2008 Saturn ION NHTSA page	0	4	1%
2007 Saturn ION	5	827	118%	5,874,032
2006 Saturn ION	4	1,208	172%	5,824,264
2005 Saturn ION	3	553	79%	5,755,125
2004 Saturn ION	8	879	125%	6,141,426
2003 Saturn ION	5	738	105%	4,767,235

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

5,286 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Saturn ION: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Steering	317.6	1,679
Electrical System	293.6	1,552
Fuel/Propulsion System	54.5	288
Air Bags	47.5	251
Fuel System, Gasoline	46.7	247
Power Train	37.6	199
Engine and Engine Cooling	27.8	147
Engine	25.3	134
Vehicle Speed Control	21.2	112
Exterior Lighting	18.2	96

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Saturn ION, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2004, with 5 campaigns.

Complaints about the Saturn ION, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 802 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

SL15 campaigns
VUE7 campaigns
LS12 campaigns
Outlook10 campaigns
Aura5 campaigns
Sky5 campaigns
SC18 campaigns
SC14 campaigns
Saturn2 campaigns
SW11 campaigns
Astra1 campaign
L2004 campaigns
Relay3 campaigns
L3002 campaigns
VUE Hybrid0 campaigns
EV18 campaigns
Z4 campaigns

Saturn: all 18 model lines

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Official channels

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Cite this page

Recall Register. Saturn ION: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/saturn/ion/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence: US government work, public domain
Recall file through: 29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through: 15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file: General Motors LLC

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Saturn ION model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2004 with 8, 2007 with 5, 2003 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Saturn ION model year has the most complaints?: The 2006 model year, with 1,208 of the 4,209 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Saturn ION name?: Steering: 317.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 293.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel/Propulsion System: 54.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Saturn ION?: 7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.