I have a brand new Saturn Aura. An article in our local newspaper was discussing a feature of the Saturn Aura called neutral idle. The article states, that 2 seconds after braking to a stop, with your foot still on the brake pedal, the transmission “goes into neutral”. I tested this feature on my…

If your car has this feature (which I somehow doubt), it will be discussed in the Owner’s Manual. Since you have apparently not yet read this booklet, this should give you added impetus to open up the glove compartment and read the book. After you get past the 20 or so pages on how to put on your …

Great! I post a serious inquiry and all I get is one sarcastic reply from a smart-ass know-it-all. Thanks for nothing VCDdriver.

Actually, my reply was serious. If your car has this feature, it will be discussed in the Owner’s Manual. Learning to refer to that manual is important, and if I can induce you to open the book and read it, you will learn much about the car that you don’t currently know and you will actually enjoy…

We needed more proverbs on here, VDCdriver. Aura bill, I found a few websites that basically say just what the article you read did, including one on GM’s website. Seriously, I’d read the owner’s manual to find more information on how the feature works. VDCdriver gave you a perfectly acceptable a…

Well, what do you know? About 20 seconds of “Googling” resulted in the following information: ‘One reason for such mileage is that the automatic, built in Japan by Aisin, includes a “neutral idle” feature that shifts into neutral when the car is stopped but running, thus eliminating the drag on th…

My 1964 LeSabre has a similar feature, though I’m not sure they billed it as a fuel-saving feature. It has a little switch that, when you’re sitting stopped with the engine idling in gear, reduces the transmission fluid pressure and stops the car from creeping forward. My guess is that your car pro…

Sorry for my terse reply to your original response VDCdriver, but what aggrevated me, was how you took it upon yourself to immediately assume, even though you had absolutely no way of knowing, that my car probably doesn’t have this feature, and that I had not yet referred to my owners manual. I gue…

If you did, indeed, read the Owner’s Manual, then I congratulate you since far too few people bother to do so. However, there is a bit of an art to getting a response that you want when posting a question. If you have read the manual, it is a good idea to state something along the lines of, “I che…

Yes the transmission is working as it should.

Saturn Aura neutral idle

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aura_bill June 16, 2008, 9:50pm 11

By the way VDCdriver. I have been B.S.ing you the whole while. I don’t have a Saturn Aura, I drive Ford F-150 pickup truck. AND if you knew what you were talking about, you would have found out that the Saturn Aura does not even have neutral idle, the Saturn Astra does. HA!

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Saturn Aura neutral idle

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