Recall Register

2002 Chevrolet Cavalier: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier. NHTSA has 196 complaints on file for this model year.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 196 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

196 complaints, 254 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

  • 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier
  • All 2002 vehicles
2002 Chevrolet Cavalier: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2002 CavalierAll 2002 vehiclesCavalier, all yearsMentions
Electrical System137.894.619435
Engine and Engine Cooling90.6100.3125.723
Service Brakes, Hydraulic86.676.599.822
Visibility70.938.749.318
Steering66.939.664.317
Air Bags59.173.753.615
Exterior Lighting55.133.332.514
Power Train51.211951.513
Fuel System, Gasoline51.232.483.213
Vehicle Speed Control43.339.22911

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 27.

Complaints that report a crash
24
Complaints that report a fire
4
Injuries in the complaints
33
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
7 Jun 2023

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 43 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/cavalier/2002/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Chevrolet Cavalier have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 40 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Cavalier, model years 1982 to 2005. None of them names the 2002 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier name most often?
Electrical System: 35 of 254 component mentions, or 137.8 per 1,000. For all 2002 vehicles the figure is 94.6 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.