2001 Saturn L100 review from North America

AMAZING!! OK, I live in Los Angles. Driving at 70 miles an hour average on the 405 freeway! Driving home from work. My car just stopped. Completely went... Ffffzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and then nothing.

So I had it towed $165 to mechanic, and they charged $95 to tell me the compression was at 0; this means the timing chain broke and my pistons pushed through my valves and destroyed my engine. "WHAT WHAT" they told me $5,000 to fix the entire engine. The car has sat there and I have no transport. I have taken the bus and cut back on my work in Los Angeles. Miserable!

Needless to say, I have made 2 car payments to a car that sits under the palm tree collecting bird "luck"... Check this out: I check the mail 2 days ago. a big red stop sign says RECALL I read it, and it says the timing chain has been recalled on this car and at no charge to me, they will fix it. Today I am having it towed to them.

I see this in two ways: Yes man messed up this car, but had it not been for divine intervention (God) and me seeing this small post card, almost junk mail. Today is November 18, 2008 and I am having the car towed to Saturn here in CA. I will be back to tell you how this turns out... jeniferizhere@yahoo.com

Nice decent American made car, until... timing chain.

My car is silver and is stick shift. I guess it's one of the 20,000 made in America.