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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 006058346 | Incident Date: Mar, 04 2006 |
| Consumer's City: SAN JOSE | Consumer's State: CA |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC |
| Model Name: LS | Model Year: 2002 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Electrical system:12v/24v/48v battery |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Mar, 05 2006 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: - |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 6 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: 2002 saturn lw300 with approximately 40k miles (bought new). positive terminal of ac delco battery found leaking. i replaced it with a sears diehard. afterwards car would not start and was locked in park gear. disconnecting the battery activated the anti-thief system which i could not reset per owners manual. dealer said it must come in for reprogramming. at dealer i was told that the bcm unit was bad and would cost $600 to replace. i did nothing wrong when changing the battery, and the car was fine before. ac delco 78-6yr (false labeling) is owned by gm and their leaky side-terminal batteries are a well known problem. i believe these batteries and saturn's bcm units are designed to fail and generate profit. as an electrical engineer, i can't understand how changing a battery can kill a module like this. i am 56 and have replaced many batteries, all correctly. i have found many cases like this on the internet. in some cases the cars stop dead in their tracks due to ac delco side-terminal batteries. i am amazed at how many dealer try to immediately blame the customer for doing something wrong (as i was by saturn). *nm |
