2005 Saturn Ion defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2005 Saturn Ion. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Electric Power Steering Failure
  Engineering Analysis EA11014 · opened Sep 29, 2011 · closed Apr 15, 2014 · led to recall 15V064000

  On March 31, 2014, General Motors Company (GM) submitted a Defect Information Report (DIR) to NHTSA describing a safety defect that may result in a sudden loss of power steering assist in approximately 1,340,447 model year (MY) 2004 through 2010 vehicles equipped with electric power steering (EPS), including 334,728 MY…

• Electric Power Steering Failure
  Recall Query RQ10004 · opened Dec 15, 2010 · closed Oct 5, 2011

  ODI has received 846 complaints and GM identified 3,489 reports alleging sudden loss of steering power assist in model year (MY) 2004 through 2007 Saturn Ion vehicles manufactured and sold by General Motors Corporation (GM).Sixteen of these complaints alleged that the EPS warning lamp had illuminated before or during t…