2002 GMC Tahoe

Routine

Owners filed 4 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags › frontal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports	Crashes	Injuries
Vehicle Speed Control	1	0	0
Tires	1	0	0
Seat Belts › Front › Retractor	1	0	0
Air Bags › Frontal	1	1	1

What owners reported

Newest filings

Seat Belts › Front › Retractor

Filed May 15, 200640,000 milesNY

DRIVER'S SHOULDER HARNESS RETRACTOR MAKES A SQUEAKING SOUND WITH NORMAL CAR OR DRIVER MOVEMENTS. BROUGHT TO DEALER FOR REPAIR AND WAS TOLD IT WAS DUE TO WEAR ON SEAT BELT RETRACTOR RATCHET AND THAT THE ONLY SOLUTION WAS A REPLACEMENT OF THE RETRACTOR AND REUPHOLSTERED OF SEAT AT A COST OF $350. FAILURE TO MAKE THE REPAIR MIGHT RESULT IN THE FAILURE OF THE SEAT BELT TO LOCK IN AN ACCIDENT. THE CAR IS 4 YEARS OLD AND HAS 40,OOO MILES ON IT. THIS APEARS TO BE A SAFETY DEFECT. *JB

Vehicle Speed Control

Filed Feb 23, 200421,834 milesCA

WHILE TRAVELING AT 30 MPH VEHICLE'S SPEED WAS REDUCED TO 20 MPH. THE REDUCED ENGINE POWER SIGN FLASHED ON THE DASHBOARD. CONSUMER TOOK VEHICLE TO THE DEALER, AND THEY REPLACED THE TACHOMETER AT 21,834, BUT PROBLEM REPEATED. THEN, WHILE TRAVELING AT 70 MPH, VEHICLE WAS NEARLY INVOLVED IN A COLLISION. *AK

Tires

Filed May 12, 200316,000 milesLA

WHILE DRIVING, THE LEFT FRONT TIRE BLEW OUT. GOODYEAR WRANGLER ST TIRE. *JB

Air Bags › FrontalCrash1 injured

Filed Feb 21, 2003VA

THE VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A COLLISION, AND THE AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY, CONSUMER SUFFERED INJURIES.*JB

4 of 4 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2000

Year	Complaints	Assessment
2003	4	Routine
2002 — this page	4	Routine
2001	3	Routine
2000	6	Routine
1999	4	Routine
1998	2	Routine

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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.