2002 Cadillac Seville problems
NHTSA has received 66 complaints about the 2002 Cadillac Seville, and 18% of them involve suspension. After that come engine (15%) and electrical system (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 66 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Suspension 18% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 6 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 5 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 100,000 miles 37 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 3 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 5 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 4 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 0 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 6 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 3 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 6 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 2 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 8 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Among the 37 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 100,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 6 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 5 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2002 ranks 8th most-complained-about out of 12 model years of the Cadillac Seville with enough data (29 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Tl* the contact was a passenger in a 2002 cadillac seville. The contact was involved in a crash while traveling 65 MPH. The driver of the vehicle crashed into a ditch and the air bag did not properly deploy. The vehicle was destroyed. The contact sustained a concussion to the head. A police report was filed. The contact did not inform the dealer or the manufacturer of the failure. The failure and current mileage was 55,000. Updated 05/24/11 the consumer stated the air bag deployment was delayed. Updated 05/25/11
While stopped behind 3 vehicles at a stoplight I florida a female who said she was unfamiliar with driving her husbands stick shift vehicle stalled out. Two vehicles in front of me pulled around her when the light changed, this left about twenty feet between my car and hers. She accidentally put the car in reverse and backed into mine at about 15 miles per hour. When I started to get out of the car she pulled forward fifteen to twenty feet before the engine of her car quit.
Car was purchased new in 2002. Though it has never been wrecked, there are non-oem parts on the car. One of these parts was intended for the export market. So my american made car has a part that was intended for the export version. The part in question is the drivers side headlight assembly. My concern is that if other body parts were substituted the car might not be as crash worthy as it otherwise might have been.
Various check engine codes became present. Dealership repaired items dealing with codes, but codes would later reappear. Found that the front engine mount was broken. Engine was moving around in engine compartment, disturbing the electrical harness connections and bumping and damaging parts. This was an expensive repair process, because access to engine mount is complicated. We are still shaking down the engine in finding additional parts that were damaged.