I'm in the auto glass business. The engineering and manufacture of American cars is amazing to me.
The Saturn Ion is the biggest piece of sh!t ever made!! Example: The windshield wiper posts are mounted on plastic. If you unbolt the wiper arms and wiggle them off (like any other car) you will break the mounts. $250. It is necessary to use a gear puller to get the wiper arms off. A gear puller won't fit under the open hood.
Every Saturn model and the re-badges are crap for one reason or many.
No wonder this company went out of business.
Late model F150s: Plastic, plastic, plastic. You can't hardly touch the thing without breaking parts. Side molding are held together with paper thin plastic brackets that can not be disassembled without breaking them. The cowling below the windshield is held with-- NOTHING! It pops into place with (guess) plastic tabs. Junk.
Chevy Trailblazers: Crap. Windshield wipers that mount like they were forgotten in the design. A cowling that has hidden fasteners that are near impossible to remove without breaking...
VWs are my favorite to work on. Well designed cowlings and moldings. Robust manufacture... Hondas aren't bad. Toyotas can be a pain.
I could go on and on.
The Saturn Ion is the biggest piece of sh!t ever made!! Example: The windshield wiper posts are mounted on plastic. If you unbolt the wiper arms and wiggle them off (like any other car) you will break the mounts. $250. It is necessary to use a gear puller to get the wiper arms off. A gear puller won't fit under the open hood.
Every Saturn model and the re-badges are crap for one reason or many.
No wonder this company went out of business.
Late model F150s: Plastic, plastic, plastic. You can't hardly touch the thing without breaking parts. Side molding are held together with paper thin plastic brackets that can not be disassembled without breaking them. The cowling below the windshield is held with-- NOTHING! It pops into place with (guess) plastic tabs. Junk.
Chevy Trailblazers: Crap. Windshield wipers that mount like they were forgotten in the design. A cowling that has hidden fasteners that are near impossible to remove without breaking...
VWs are my favorite to work on. Well designed cowlings and moldings. Robust manufacture... Hondas aren't bad. Toyotas can be a pain.
I could go on and on.