Saturn Astra
Registered from 2008 to 2009.
Crash test
| Stability control | Optional |
| Forward collision warning | No |
| Lane departure warning | No |
Crash-tested by NHTSA, the American road safety agency.
Specification
| Year | Measured |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 1325 kg · 2610 mm wheelbase · 8.7 L/100km (EPA) · 9.8 L/100km city · 7.8 motorway · Hatch, 5-door |
| 2008 | 1325 kg · 2610 mm wheelbase · 8.7 L/100km (EPA) · 9.8 L/100km city · 7.8 motorway · Hatch, 5-door |
Regulator investigations
Opened by NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation is a question the regulator asked about a possible defect, not a fault it found — most end without a recall.
Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture
Engineering analysis, opened September 2021, still open.
What the maker told its dealers
Service bulletins are the manufacturer's own repair guidance to dealers, filed with NHTSA. A bulletin is not a defect finding; the count rises with how many things a maker writes down, not only with how many go wrong.
Saturn filed 840 bulletins about the 2009 Astra.
- Equipment: 351
- Electrical system: 133
- Engine and engine cooling: 78
- Equipment adaptive/mobility: 55
- Power train: 34
- Wheels: 27
- Visibility: 25
- Engine: 22
- Fuel system, gasoline: 21
- Tires: 17
- Other: 77
- New Vehicle Monitoring Programs Section in IVH · September 2025
- This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician about vehicles that have an intermittent no crank, no start, or start stall concern with the security light coming… · August 2025
- This PI communicates the requirement to provide a pico file to receive diagnostic assistance from TAC. · July 2025
- This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician about the use of J-35616-64B and Mini 50 terminal test probe, replacement terminals, and terminated leads. · June 2025
- This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician about the use of J-35616-64B and Mini 50 terminal test probe, replacement terminals, and terminated leads. · June 2025
- This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician about the use of J-35616-64B and Mini 50 terminal test probe, replacement terminals, and terminated leads. · June 2025
- This service bulletin provides information for maintenance cleaning of the fuel injectors and gasoline detergent additive. · October 2024
- This service bulletin provides information on some vehicles that may rock or move slightly forward or rearward while in Park at start up after cold soak. This condition may be accompanied by a clunk… · October 2024
832 more.
Grouped by NHTSA's top-level system; a bulletin filed under a sub-heading counts toward its system.