Consumer Complaint Detail

SATURN / SL / 1996

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NHTSA Complaint Number: 005027613 Incident Date: May, 26 2005
Consumer's City: REDMOND Consumer's State: OR
Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC
Model Name: SL Model Year: 1996
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Engine and engine cooling:engine
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1G8ZJ5278TZ Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Jul, 06 2005 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Apr, 02 2005
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 4 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: There was a clicking sound in the engine; when i tried to press the gas it just revved the engine but had a hard time getting up to speed; i was driving home with my two daughters; going about 30 mph and i heard a loud noise and then stuff falling under my car....the car died. i pushed the car about a block and half to my house. my children and i then went to pick up the pieces of the engine...one of the pistons had blown out of the block. there was a huge whole on the lower right of the engine. i had several mechanics come look at it and they said it was a "freak" accident. there was still oil in the engine so i had not ran it out of oil. the noise just started and immediately the engine was bad. i bought it with 113000 miles on it and had it only a 6-8 weeks when this happened. i had 117000 mile on it when it broke down.