2002 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE Complaints

TRAVELING AT 65 MPH PASSING ANOTHER CAR SWITCHED LAND AND REAREND WENT OUT. DID 360 DEGREE AND HIT THE SIDE ON HIGH WAY. AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY. IT DID $9000 IN DAMAGE TO THE FRONT END. STEERING FEELS LIKE ITS HITTING ANOTHER METAL DEALER HAS TO GREASE THE STEERING SHAFT EVERY 25,000 MILES FACTORY DEFECT BUT I HAVE TO PAY FOR IT AFTER WARRANTY RAN OUT. APPLYING BRAKE WHEN MAKING A TURN IF TRUCK GOES OVER A ROAD HOLE OR BUMP IN THE ROAD ANTI-LOCK BRAKE DOES NOT WORK AND LOOSE CONTROL OF THE TRUCK. SUSPENSION IS NOT GOOD. *LA

REAR WINDOW FRAME STARTING TO SPLIT. TALKED TO DEALER AND THEY STATED THAT THEY HAVE SEEN 5 OTHERS DO THE SAME THING. CHEVROLET SHOULD RECALL THIS DEFECT DESIGN. *LA

2002 CHEVY AVALANCHE, 5.3L ENGINE SEIZED UP ON ME AS I WAS DRIVING AND COULD HAVE CAUSED AN ACCIDENT AS I LOST POWER. I'M NOT GETTING ANY SATISFACTION FROM GM OR THE DEALER AS TO WHY THIS HAPPENED. I JUST WANT A NEW ENGINE. CAN YOU HELP?

WHILE REVERSING VEHICLE HIT A LAMP POLE. UPON IMPACT, VEHICLE WAS STUCK IN FULL THROTTLE. VEHICLE FAILED TO MOVE BECAUSE IT WAS ALREADY PROPPED AGAINST THE POLE.*AK

THE CONSUMER HEARD A RUMBLING NOISE COMING FROM FRONT AND REAR WHEELS. THE MECHANIC REPLACED THE FRONT AND REAR PINION BEARINGS BUT THIS DID NOT REMEDY THE PROBLEM. LATER THE DIFFERENTIAL WAS FOUND TO BE THE PROBLEM AND IT WAS REPLACED. *NLM *TS *JB

WHILE TRAVELING ON A STATE 2 LANE HIGHWAY AT HIGH WAY SPEED, THE SPARE TIRE DROPPED FROM IT'S STORAGE AREA UNDER TRUCK BED. CABLE SYSTEM HOLDING SPARE IN PLACE HAD FRAYED AND WORN THROUGH TO BREAKING POINT, THUS RELEASING INFLATED SPARE ONTO ROAD SURFACE, CAUSING SPARE TO BOUNCE APPROXIMATELY 6 FEET INTO AIR AND ROLLED OFF THE HIGH WAY ON TO SHOULDER AT SPEED. *LA

MY 2002 AVALANCHE FAILED THE STATE INSPECTION BECAUSE THE EMERGENCY BRAKE WOULD NOT HOLD. I NEVER USE THE EMERGENCY BRAKE AND THE INSPECTOR SAID THE MAJORITY OF THE AVALALACHE'S THAT HE CHECKED HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. *LA

BED OF TRUCK IS LEAKING EVERYTHING GETS WET. IT IS ALSO LEAKING INTO THE CAB OF TRUCK> THIS WAS A CONCERN WHEN I PURCHASED IT AND WAS ASSURED THERE WOULD NOT EVER BE A PROBLEM. HAVE HAD IT TO DEALER HERE 2 TIMES AND STILL LEAKING. HAVE WHOOPING SOUND FROM SUN ROOF IN OPEN POSITION, IF I HOLD UP ON IT, IT STOPS. THIS I WAS TOLD COULD NOT BE FIXED. SPRINGS ARE JUST TOO WEAK. *JB

I HAD MY CHEVROLET AVAILABLE TO THE DEALER THREE TIMES TO FIND OIL SPRAYING UP ON THE DRIVERS DOOR THEY FOUND A CRACK IN THE FRONT DIFFER. SAID THEY PUT IN SOME GO IN THE CRACK AND IT DOESNT NEED REPLACED. IN MY OPION THE CASTING IN CHEVY AVALNCHES ARE DEFFECTIVE AND NEED REPLACED.*AK

I HAVE HAD 3 BROKEN BRACKETS ON MY RUNNING LIGHTS SINCE I BOUGHT MY 2002 CHEVROLET AVALANCHE. BUT SINCE I HAVE 62,000 MILE ON IT IT HAS NOW BECOME MY PROBLEM. IN ORDER TO REPLACE THE BRACKETS YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THE WHOLE LIGHT. WHICH I HAVE DONE 6 MONTHS AFTER I RECEIVED THE TRUCK FOR THE SUM OF $70.00. NOW I NEED TO REPLACE BOTH LIGHTS FOR THE SUM OF $100. APIECE. I FEEL THIS IS A DESIGN DEFECT AND CHEVY SHOULD TAKE CARE OF IT. ALSO MY CHECK ENIGINE LIGHT HAS BEEN GOING ON ONCE A MONTH FOR THREE MONTHS AND THAT SEEMS TO BE MY PROBLEM TO. I BOUGHT THE TRUCK IN WORCESTER MASS. AND HAVE SINCE MOVED TO MAINE AND HAVE TO TRAVEL 300 MILES TO BRING IT BACK TO THE DEALER JUST TO BE TOLD BY CHEVY THAT IT IS MY PROBLEM. I WANT THE CONSUMERS TO BEWARE THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU PAY $37,000 FOR A TRUCK DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE MANUFACUTER WILL STICK BY THEM.*AK