6.0

fairly significant
Typical Repair Cost:
$50
Average Mileage:
186,450 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. not sure (1 reports)
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problem #1

Aug 252013

SL1

  • Manual transmission
  • 186,411 miles

There is a small block that the shift cable linkage goes into the shifter and it is a known problem with many saturn cars that this breaks. Luckily its pretty easy to actually fix but getting to the actual area is a b*tch. I currently just have a cotter pin holding it in there and it works pretty well but I have trouble downshifting into second. There is a 3D printable part that I may try to print and see if that fixes my troubles.

- David T., Mindemoya, Ontario, canada