So I couldn't deal with the annoying metal sound any longer and it was getting to the point that I didn’t want to drive my baby…

every time I pushed in the clutch I heard metal noises…. so I traded it back into Saturn and took a
monetary beating…. I traded up to a ‘08 AUTOMATIC!! Sometimes you got to do what you got to do… I hope no one else has a similar problem, as GM won’t acknowledge it unless it becomes life threatening. There is a definite problem and at some point it will resurface.
