NHTSA Complaint #10273459 — 2005 SATURN ION

DRIVING 2005 SATURN ION, APROX 43,000 MILES ON THE VEHICLE...ELECTRONIC POWER STEERING MOTOR GETS"HOT" AND SHUTS DOWN. NO POWER STEERING IN VEHICLE. TURN VEHICLE OFF AND THE ELECTRONIC MECHANISM RESETS ITSELF AND WORKS UNTIL THE NEXT TIME IT SHUTS DOWN WHILE DRIVING. TOOK VEHICLE TO SATURN DEALERSHIP, POWER STEERING MOTOR IS BURNED OUT AND NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. ROUGHLY 1300.00. OR I CAN JUST DRIVE IT AS IS. TECH VOICED CONCERN THAT THE ELECTRONIC PROBLEMS IN THERE COULD BE VERY PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE THEY COULD GET HOT AND START A FIRE. UPON RESEARCHING THIS PROBLEM N THESE MODELS, THERE SEEMS TO BE AN OVERABUNDANCE OF REPORTS OF THE SAME ISSUES. I CALLED GM AND REPORTED THE PROBLEM AND LET THEM KNOW THAT THERE SEEMED TO BE PROBLEMS WITH THESE PARTICULAR MODELS AND THAT THIS COULD RESULT IN AN ACCIDENT BECAUSE IT HAS TO DO WITH STEERING THE VEHICLE, AND THAT SINCE IT WILL RESET IF YOU TURN THE VEHICLE OFF AND DRIVE FOR AWHILE, THEN CONSUMERS MAY OPT NOT TO SPEND THE MONEY TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM, AS IT IS VERY EXPENSIVE. I FEEL THAT THESE SHOULD BE RECALLED AND CORRECTED. *TR