Saturn Ion, Hhr. Published by Transport Canada as 2010447 on 16 December 2010. System: Steering.
What the notice says Certain vehicles equipped with electric power steering may experience a sudden loss of power steering assist that could occur at any time while driving. If the power steering assist is lost, a message is displayed on the Driver Information Centre and a chime sounds to inform the driver. Typically, at the next …
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Saturn ION in the other registers
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The European register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2010447
- Recall date
- 16 December 2010
- Make
- Saturn, Chevrolet
- Models
- Ion, HHR
- Model years
- 2003 to 2010
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Superseded
- Vehicles affected
- 86,345
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain vehicles equipped with electric power steering may experience a sudden loss of power steering assist that could occur at any time while driving. If the power steering assist is lost, a message is displayed on the Driver Information Centre and a chime sounds to inform the driver. Typically, at the next ignition cycle, power assist is regained and the Driver Information Centre message will be off. Steering control can be maintained, as the vehicle will revert to a manual steering mode, but would require greater driver effort at low vehicle speeds, which could result in a crash causing property damage and/or personal injury. Correction: Vehicles will receive a special extended warranty coverage of 10 years/240,000 km from first registration. Under this special coverage program, vehicles which experience this condition will have the electric power steering motor replaced.
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Saturn elsewhere in this register
Saturn is named on 73 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2010276 · 16 August 2010 · Enclave, Outlook, Acadia · Seats And Restraints
- 2010189 · 7 June 2010 · Lucerne, DTS, H2 · Accessories
- 2009193 · 24 June 2009 · Vue · Other
- 2009076 · 11 March 2009 · Outlook, G6, HHR · Other
- 2012307 · 18 September 2012 · Aura, Malibu, G6 · Powertrain
- 2012331 · 1 October 2012 · G6, Malibu, Malibu Maxx · Steering
- 2008424 · 25 November 2008 · Traverse, Enclave, Acadia · Seats And Restraints
- 2008425 · 25 November 2008 · Vue · Steering
The same system: Steering
582 notices in this register name Steering. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2010412 · 17 November 2010 · 7300 · Steering
- 2010402 · 12 November 2010 · Xterra, Frontier · Steering
- 2010331 · 5 October 2010 · C Class, E Class · Steering
- 2010325 · 30 September 2010 · SRX · Steering
- 2010321 · 23 September 2010 · Sonata · Steering
- 2010319 · 21 September 2010 · Dash, Lance, Enforcer · Steering
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