Other engine problem on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette
Only 5 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When other engine problem gets reported
There are 6 reports of other engine problem on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette, 5 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 9th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 44,484 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $300–$4,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 500 miles, and latest on the 2022 at 115,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 21; the 2002 has 6. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Tl*the contact owns a 2002 chevrolet corvette. While the contact was driving approximately 60 MPH, the "engine" warning light illuminated. The warning indicator remained illuminated until the engine was turned off. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer where the technician stated that the failure was contributed to the secondary air injection system. The vehicle was repaired for the malfunction. The failure mileage was approximately 52,000.
I was driving down the highway at normal posted speeds (65 MPH) and my engine all the sudden cut out. It stumbled and died. I had it towed by l&a wrecking company to the shop. Turns out it was the valve springs the failed (apparently very common with corvettes) and almost caused a huge wreck due to me having no power.
As I was driving, coasting my car down a hill in buffalo, ny my 2002 chevrolet z06's motor shut down completely. I was making a right-hand turn when the vehicle lost all power-assisted steering and the vehicle could not be re-started. I later found out from the dealer where I had my car towed that my z06 had broken a valve spring in its engine. After some research, this appears to be a common problem with 2001 and 2002 corvette z06 models made by chevrolet. There are many examples nearly identical to mine where the vehicle's valve springs will snap and prevent the valves in the motor from operating successfully and thus preventing the car from moving under its own power. I believe this frequent problem is a safety hazard as many of these failures occur while the vehicles are being driven on public roads and are rendered inoperable by the failure. Moreover, after one of these valve springs breaks, the car loses its power steering function (that most drivers are accustomed to having in assisting their steering at low speeds); the function a driver would need most in an emergency situation where their car cannot maintain speed on a…
Also reported on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette
Steering column or shaft failure
Other wheel or tire problem
Other steering problem
Other electrical problem
ABS module or sensor failure
Fuel leak or fuel odor
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 6 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 6 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other engine problem happen on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette?
Across 5 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 45,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other engine problem on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette?
6 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.8 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed