'07 Vue Greenline problems

[Jason]

So far my '07 Vue Green Line has skirted the state's lemon laws, but just barely. Anyone else having problems with their Green Line?

A few weeks after purchasing the Vue, we had to have the muffler replaced, bad baffles. Since then we've had a recall on the battery, the main power harness and something else (can't remember). Our center console won't open anymore, the latch won't work. To top it all off, we seem to be burning about a quart of oil every 1,000 miles or so (GM says up to 2 qts per 1,000 miles is acceptable!). We're only getting about 23 mpg despite very conservative driving.

Has anyone else had problems with the Vue Greenlines?

[Rick Murphy (RicksVue)]

While the power harness and battery recalls are common (all of the '07s had those fixes), the oil burning is a major problem. The S-series engines had problems like that, but I've never heard of oil consumption problems on the ecotec engines. Combine that with your poor mileage and something's clearly not right. What's the emissions testing telling you on your vehicle?

As far as the 23 MPG goes, what kind of driving do you typically do? I'm making about 26 MPG on my Green Line, but since my commute is less than 4 miles and my highway miles are fairly limited, that's pretty reasonable. (I've just turned 19,000 miles on mine so it's pretty clearly almost all short trips.) If you're doing a lot of short trips with a bunch of stop-and-go, you won't see the EPA results. On highway runs I'm seeing 34+ MPG. You're not alone here, as there's a guy on SaturnFans that used to complain a lot about very poor mileage on his GL. He also went through a set of tires really quickly if I remember right, leading me to conclude that his car was way out of alignment.

As far as the center console is concerned, that should be pretty easy for your retailer to fix, ideally under warranty.

[Jason]

Great, now the A/C doesn't work, and I'm 2,000 miles away from a Saturn dealer!