2002 GMC Safari (gmc)

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the service brakes, hydraulic › antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Tires1
000
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip1
000
Power Train › Driveline1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Tires
Filed May 8, 2018151,530 milesTN

ON MAY 5, 2018 TRAVELING ON I-40, MILE 398 WHILE TRAVELING IN THE MIDDLE LANE I HEARD A LOUD NOISE AND MY VAN STARTED SHAKING. I KNEW/FELT THAT A TIRE HAD BLOWN. I GOT TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND GOT HELP. THE TIRES WERE PURCHASED AND PUT ON NOVEMBER OF 2016. THE TIRES ARE GOODYEAR WRANGLERS WITH 8,789 MILES ON THESE TIRES..

Power Train › Driveline
Filed May 18, 201092,123 milesVT

THE REAR AXLE BROKE AND THE LEFT WHEEL & AXLE CAME COMPLETELY OUT OF THE HOUSING. *TR

Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip
Filed Jan 21, 200858,000 milesMI

IN DECEMBER 2007 THE ABS BRAKE SYSTEM BEGAN ACTIVATING AT VERY LOW SPEEDS ON DRY, SMOOTH PAVEMENT. THE ACTIVATION NOW OCCURS WITH ABOUT 33% OF ALL COMPLETE STOPS ON DRY, SMOOTH PAVEMENT. ABS SYSTEM HAS EVEN ACTIVATED IMMEDIATELY AFTER COMPLETE STOPS ON SOME OCCASIONS. *TR

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2003
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20051000Routine
20041000Routine
20036000Routine
2002 — this page3000Routine
20011000Routine
20005000Routine
19991000Routine
19982000Routine
19973000Routine
19963000Routine
19951000Routine
19941000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.