Recall Register

2002 Pontiac Sunfire: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2002 Pontiac Sunfire. NHTSA has 67 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 Pontiac Sunfire. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 67 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

67 complaints, 109 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 Pontiac Sunfire
  • All 2002 vehicles
2002 Pontiac Sunfire: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2002 SunfireAll 2002 vehiclesSunfire, all yearsMentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic165.196.797.318
Electrical System137.688.7178.915
Engine and Engine Cooling100.9130.3167.211
Visibility91.750.446.610
Steering82.637.167.99
Equipment5524.728.86
Air Bags45.955.180.95
Power Train45.9135.947.35
Exterior Lighting45.934615
Fuel System, Gasoline45.935.932.95

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 19.

Complaints that report a crash
8
Complaints that report a fire
2
Injuries in the complaints
7
Deaths in the complaints
1
Date of the newest complaint
8 Aug 2010

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 Pontiac Sunfire, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 14 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.

  1. 19850
  2. 19910
  3. 19940
  4. 19955
  5. 19967
  6. 19976
  7. 19983
  8. 19992
  9. 20001
  10. 20011
  11. 20020
  12. 20031
  13. 20041
  14. 20050

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2002 Pontiac Sunfire: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/sunfire/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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Pontiac Sunfire have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 17 recall campaigns for the Pontiac Sunfire, model years 1985 to 2005. None of them names the 2002 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2002 Pontiac Sunfire name most often?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 18 of 109 component mentions, or 165.1 per 1,000. For all 2002 vehicles the figure is 96.7 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2002 Pontiac Sunfire open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.