Other body or interior problem on the 2007 Saturn Vue
2 crashes 1 fire 2 injuries 5 of the 11 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Saturn Vue report other body or interior problem at a median of 45,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 30,000 miles and a quarter after 60,000 miles, from 10 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 5,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 75,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 68,824 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
30% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,206 miles | 29,800 miles | 45,000 miles | 57,500 miles | 76,030 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 2 a crash, 1 a fire and 2 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $200–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 8 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2003, at a median of 30,000 miles, and latest on the 2006 at 80,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 29; the 2007 has 11. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I bought a saturn vue hybrid in september, with in two hours the driver seat back lumbar mechanism feel apart when a car parked to close forced me to worm my way in the door. It was fixed several times and saturn of libertyville, using slip ties to finally hold it together. With the help of saturn customer service I went to another dealer, parts are on order. My back being broken three times rear ended stopped at lights, my back did not feel good riding in the broken seat for a month. Saturn tells me all warranties etc. Are void if I have a safe seat, recar othodeic, I will not ride in an unsafe seat when it is so easy to correct the problem. If any person gets rear ended at more than about ten mile per hour they will have back injuries. Having attended college for me.bs. And ee. Bs. I will not be played for a fool by any car company. Thomas f. Lynch. *nm
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 saturn vue. The contact stated that she left the driver side door slightly ajar. When she touched the door, all the vehicle doors locked. The key was in the vehicle but not in the ignition. The contact called on star to unlock the door, but their system was showing that the doors were unlocked. The police were called because a child was in the vehicle. The doors unlocked automatically. The dealer reset the locks but did not know what triggered the failure. The engine size was unknown. The current and failure mileages were 8,000. Updated 06/08/07 *tr
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 saturn vue. After attempting to open the driver's side door approximately 12 times, the contact was unsuccessful. All the other doors on the vehicle functioned properly and allowed him to enter and exit. The dealer advised him to bring the vehicle in for inspection so they could attempt to identify the defect. The failure and current mileages were 45,000.
Also reported on the 2007 Saturn Vue
Other electrical problem
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
Other engine problem
Other steering problem
Fuel pump failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 11 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other body or interior problem happen on the 2007 Saturn Vue?
Across 10 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 45,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 30,000 miles and a quarter after 60,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other body or interior problem on the 2007 Saturn Vue?
11 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed