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1996 Saturn S-series S1 Sl Sedan, 5-speed, 4-door 34mpg New Tires on 2040-cars

US $1,999.00
Year:1996 Mileage:250000
Location:

Northfork, West Virginia, United States

Northfork, West Virginia, United States
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Vehicle Title:Clear
Engine:1.9 SOHC
Condition:
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VIN (Vehicle Identification Number)
: 1g8zg5287tz183829
Year: 1996
Mileage: 250,000
Make: Saturn
Model: S-Series
Options: Cassette Player
Trim: SL
Safety Features: Driver Airbag
Power Options: Air Conditioning
Drive Type: Front-Drive

 This is my daily driver. Great little car, runs & drives great. Here's the specs:

36K on rebuilt motor & head, new catylitic converter, fuel-pump
30K on new catalytic converter
30K on new front ball-joints, end-links, lower rack
20K on new shocks/struts all around
18K on new clutch
New wheel covers installed last year (not pictured)
New Cooper tires installed 12/20
New lower right ball-joint, tie-rod just replaced
Just aligned, serviced
I have all documentation/invoices for this work

1996
Saturn SL 4-Door
1.9L I-4, SOHC
5-Speed Manual
Silver/Gray
250K

Runs great, back roads or interstate
Awesome on gas. 34MPG average - that's mostly on backroads with hills & curves and a lot of shifting. I have seen 38MPG on the interstate.
Drives straight, no vibrations, no turbulence
Steering, suspension feels like new
Motor runs strong
A/C blows cold
Garage-kept
Never wrecked
Paint is good for its age, minor scuffs throughout
Interior is good for its age, minor staining throughout, drivers seat has tear new outer corner, interior light works when it wants to, two dummy-lights pop up at random on instrument cluster
1st-gear is a little stubborn getting into gear, but always has been since I bought it back in 2007. Has to be completely stopped to engage, but it does work. I usually take of in 2nd anyway.
Slight oil leak somewhere around the oil pan. Will leave a tiny drop once every 4-5 days, never smell it burning off the block even.
Stereo is about shot, speakers half blown, buttons work when they want to work.

$1999 FIRM, you'll find a cheaper Saturn everywhere, but not with over $4000 work done on it in the past 3 years alone - almost everything that will wear out has already been replaced. That's the deal-sweetener.

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Fri, Mar 14 2014

The FARS analysis didn't take into account fatal accidents where the airbags weren't supposed to deploy. Earlier today, we reported that the actual death toll attributable to GM's ignition switch problem had crested the 300 mark according to new research, well up from the original reports of 12 to 13 deaths. Now, word is breaking that the US government database that informed the study that the report was based on may have significantly overstated the correlation between the study and the GM recall. The initial study was conducted by Friedman Research on behalf of the Center for Auto Safety, and used something called the US Fatality Analysis Reporting System. To recap, the study claimed that over a 10-year period, 303 people were killed in Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion coupes and sedans when their airbags failed to deploy. These undeployed airbags were then linked to GM's ignition switch recall, which as we've explained before, can turn the ignition out of the "run" position and into the "off" or "accessory" position, disabling the airbags in the process. Now, according to a report from The Detroit News, which cites research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Study Center for Trauma and EMS at the University of Maryland, the FARS analysis didn't take into account fatal accidents in conditions where the airbags weren't supposed to deploy (which isn't to say crashes and deaths weren't caused by loss of control from the ignition switching off in the GM vehicles). According to the report, this was a significant number of the cases. There is another potential problem, too. According to that same report, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration uses both FARS and another database on fatalities, called the National Automotive Sampling System/Crashworthiness Data System (NASS/CDS). Where FARS uses what the DetNews calls "not always reliable" police data to record vehicular deaths within 30 days of a crash, NASS/CDS relies on what's known as a probability sample. It collects data on 5,000 crashes each year – including some found in the FARS database – to calculate a probability figure. According to a 2009 IIHS study, "Among crashes common to both databases, NASS/CDS reported deployments for 45 percent of front occupant deaths for which FARS had coded nondeployments." In plain English, FARS doesn't provide a reliable count airbag deployments.

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