Used 2001 Saturn L-Series L200 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 4A) Consumer Reviews
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hannabanana, Kalamazoo, MI, 01/03/2013
Saturn L-Series L200 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 4A)
40 of 41 people found this review helpful
There is a design flaw on the timing chain tensioner. Anywhere from 80k miles to 150k miles, it usually breaks. This is a 30.00 part. But if you don't know about it, and you don't fix it, the car will "jump time", and when this happens, it almost certainly will destroy the top part of your engine. This will cost about 2k to fix. If you own one, get it down to the shop and get that part changed. You will be sorry if you don't. In my town, the junk yard is full of these L series Saturns. They all look nice, but they are sitting there rotting. I had a S series, and it was the best car I ever owned. This L series, not so much!
A Lemon!
var5592, 05/15/2011
Saturn L-Series L200 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 4A)
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
Upon purchasing this car I found that the previous owner had replaced the engine. I heard of this engine having issues yet I doubted it would actually blow due to the list of issues that plague these engines. After one year of ownership, the engine blew due to a random rod busting through the block. The second engine only had 40,000 put on it upon purchase and then another 30,000 put on by me during the year. Awesome car besides the shoddy craftmanship.
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295k miles and still going
her_shey, Atlanta, GA, 03/02/2014
Saturn L-Series L200 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 4A)
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
I bought my Saturn L-Series with 63K back in 2007. She has been altered exterior with window tint, nice stereo and sound speakers/woofer and amp which was installed in 2007 as well, and she still boomin'. Drives great, good on gas. All I replaced was the fuel pump, starter, tires & battery of course. She has 295k miles, and I really feel she will hit 300k. We just made sure the oil was changed, use synthetic oil 5/30, with good driving habits. You know I was just rear ended a few days ago, and she didn't budge that bumper does wonders!! Still in tacked. We used interior parts from the salvage yard to make the inside look like new.
Worst car ever
Never Again!!!, 10/15/2010
Saturn L-Series L200 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 4A)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Bought my Saturn used w/ 48,000 miles. After 2 yrs I had to replace my timing chain ($2000 to fix). Eating through tires and oil faster then ever. 2 yrs after fixing my engine it is now completely dead, finally had to sell it to the salvage yard for nothing. Timing chain broke again and destroyed the engine. 4 yrs in I started leaking coolant into the floor of the car, the whole under the hood started to rust and had to replace the whole coolant system to rusted to repair, also the battery brackets rusted to the battery. I had the car for 6 yrs and put over $6000 in repairs and now it is completely dead at the salvage yard with 146,500 miles on it. Would never touch another Saturn again!
Scrapped in 3 months
Kyle Jones, Columbus, OH, 03/29/2016
Saturn L-Series L200 4dr Sedan (2.2L 4cyl 4A)
2 of 6 people found this review helpful
I bought this car with only 125000 miles on it, it had a lot of work, new timing chain, new hoses, brakes, etc. After 2 months of driving it started pulling insanely hard to the right, it turns out the subframe had completely rotted out and if it had been under more stress I would have wrecked it. I purchased another L200 that had the engine blow on it and took the subframe from that car and put it on mine. About two weeks later after putting the new subframe on, the temperature dropped to about 10 degrees Fehrenheit and the engine froze up and blew. This car was a total waste of time and money, and it had been maintained. Be very careful with these cars, they don't like to last. Be prepared to do work on it or replace an engine or two. Also be careful of the parts that aren't made of plastic (the whole car is plastic) because they will rust out on you.
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