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Unclassified problem on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette

Only 1 report 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.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 1
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair —
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 33rd

When unclassified problem gets reported

There are 1 report of unclassified problem on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette, 1 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 33rd most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 1 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 56,000 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.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 19 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2015, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 105,000 miles.

By volume the 2005 carries the most reports, with 40; the 2002 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 1996 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1997 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 65k
  3. 1998 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 106k
  4. 1999 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 33k
  5. 2000 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 48k
  6. 2001 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 30k
  7. 2002 (this one) 56k
  8. 2003 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 41k
  9. 2004 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 42k
  10. 2005 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 35k
  11. 2006 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 35k
  12. 2007 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 40k
  13. 2008 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 47k
  14. 2009 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 17k
  15. 2010 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 20k
  16. 2011 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 25k
  17. 2012 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 23k
  18. 2013 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 5k
  19. 2014 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 18k
  20. 2015 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 3k
  21. 2016 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 4k
  22. 2017 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 931
  23. 2018 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2020 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem 7k
  25. 2023 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  26. 2024 Chevrolet Corvette unclassified problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

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.

2002 chevrolet corvette - ABS braking and traction control system failure. Systemic and recurring problem with ecbm electronic failure. Loss of vehicle control in wet weather and no ABS braking. Research shows repeated problem with c5 corvettes. Very dangerous situation with a high performance vehicle. This needs manufacturer's correction of this design and manufacturing flaw. Please investigate. *tr

56,000 miles NHTSA complaint 854232 filed 2011-05-02

Also reported on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette

Steering column or shaft failure

37 reports median 33k

Other wheel or tire problem

34 reports median 35k

Other steering problem

26 reports median 30k

Other electrical problem

8 reports median 19k

ABS module or sensor failure

7 reports median 9k

Fuel leak or fuel odor

6 reports median 51k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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 unclassified problem happen on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette?

Across 1 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 55,000 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 unclassified problem on the 2002 Chevrolet Corvette?

1 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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