Used 2004 Saturn ION Sedan Consumer Reviews
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Long Term, great car
04driver, 09/01/2013
2004 Saturn ION 3 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 5A)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
I purchased my 2004 Ion3 almost new at the Saturn dealer, with about 2k miles. That's been 9 years and just over 100,000 miles ago. Perfect car, for me. Only replaced struts, belts, brakes, filters, oil, etc. Had auto transmission serviced once. Absolutely NO problems with this vehicle. Great trip vehicle for me. Disneyland, Grand Canyon, Salt Lake City, wherever I want to go. 30 plus mpg on freeway. I get better mpg when I go faster than stated limits, hmm.. Anyway, I love it so much, that my extended family have purchased three others. Looks like a Saturn lot when all are here. Others may have had problems, but for us. Great car. Wish they still made them. All 5 still work fine.
Ions Are Fuel Efficient
Cody, 08/07/2008
2004 Saturn ION 2 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 5M)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
I purchased my Ion back in 2006. The only repairs that I have had to perform on it was replacing the front rotors due to the roads in Jacksonville, NC and on Camp Lejeune, NC. Other than that I just perform the normal routine maintenance on it(i.e. oil change, brakes, etc). Every time I travel to Florida, I save always on gas. It is roughly 762 miles from Camp Lejeune to where I live in Florida, and I only have to fill up 3 times (that's stopping when my tank is sitting at a 1/4 of a tank). Overall, my experience with this car has been nothing but Superb. I recommend it to anyone. But do not listen to reviews, with this car you got to try for yourself.
Pleasantly surprised!
Rita, 03/14/2016
updated 09/14/2016
2004 Saturn ION 1 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 5M)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Don't let the look fool you. I wanted a cute car that had some speed to it. I didn't want a black car in Texas but because of price decided to go ahead and purchase. I am VERY glad I did. All I did was make sure oil changes were done on a regular and I have had no regrets! Thanks Saturn Ion!!
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great car
Tom, 12/07/2015
2004 Saturn ION 1 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 5M)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
My mife had an 04 saturn ion2 with a 193354 mile on and it ran great, changed oil and filter every 5 miles miles,basic thing breaks ,timing belt, had to replace the left front hub 2 yrs a go and again this year, it just got totaled 2 wks ago, some lady went to get off the exit and then she pulled right back in fornt of my wife, I put rear brakes on it 2yrs ago what a pain in the #$%.were looking to buy a nother one.
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Saturn; the mythical goddess of broken dreams
Esther Hodges and Mother , 03/08/2022
2004 Saturn ION 1 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 5A)
4 of 9 people found this review helpful
I remember it like it was yesterday. Mother and I were driving into town to buy a couple gallons of cream cheese from the Stop-n-Save when mother shouted out “Mary, Joseph and Jesus I have a BM the size of Vesuvius coming through.” I pumped the breaks on our 1999 Buick Lucerne and whipped into the closest business… which happensed to be a Saturn dealership. While mother was clearing her bowels, a handsome Jewish gentleman by the name of Sidney Upstein offered to sell me a 2004 Saturn ion. The car was sensual and the emotional connection I got from touching the steering wheel and running my hands across the dash was stimulating. I immediately took out pay day loans - financing the $13,500 car for just $975 a month (156 months). Sidney assured me this was the best deal in all of Debuke. All was well until June 6 2005, when I was driving mother to her water aerobics class - all of a sudden the radio switched from “bad girls” by Donna summers to a satanic Walter kronkite voice calling out my 97 mother by name and asking “are you ready for hell?” Seconds later the car shut off, the doors locked, the airbags deployed and Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65 started playing at full volume. The satanic radio voice, over the blaring music, said “You have been specially selected by the GM Saturn Board of Directors and Shareholders for execution - by Saturn”. Mother screamed “what in the name of Moses” but was cut short by 25 pounds of fireworks detonating in the rear seat. By this point the car was filling with water and the voice said “prepare for scorpions”. Shortly thereafter all went black. We have no memory of what happened next. Mother and I woke up three days later handcuffed to a truck nude 475 pound driver from Boise in a barn in upstate Pennsylvania. Mother had a tramp stamp that read “Corn hole me” and my head was half shaven. After 36 hours of walking down a country road we were rescued by a sheriff. The police were never able to locate our Saturn - and mother subsequently lost her playing cards that were in the glove compartment. Mother died 6 years later during a botched bank robbery - I told her not to use a squirt gun. Saturn, great car if you’re into witchy stuff. Otherwise I’m a Buick girl now.
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