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Vehicle history — accidents, title & owners
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NHTSA publishes the first 11 characters of the VIN with every complaint — that identifies the plant, model year, body and engine. So these are reports from cars built exactly like this one, not an average across the whole model.
1G1YY32G125••••••2002 Chevrolet CORVETTE
That is about average for the 2002 Chevrolet CORVETTE — 4 complaints per build across 37 builds.
4on this build
138on the model
37builds in total
Most reportedSteering 3Electronic Stability Control (esc) 1
What owners of this build wrote
SteeringAug 2020
Steering wheel is locked after parking it after work. The recall on all other vehicles my year that has been fixed by the factory has a wire ran to the PCM are computer not sure what they are calling it. But the fix will not let the steering wheel lock. And I have watched a lot…
Electronic Stability Control (esc)Jan 1901
2002 chevy corvette active handling problems. Customer states that the vehicle brakes really hard when this happened while traveling 70 mph. He states he has seen other cases like this be fixed by replacing the steering sensor in the column. *kb updated 01-15-08. *kb the…
SteeringJun 2010
On june 10, 2010, my 2002 corvette, 'manual" transmissions," was at brandon auto in roanoke va., where they were replacing the original tires with 4 news tires. The car has just over 29,100 miles. Brandon stated that when they attempted to drive the car out of the garage, a…
SteeringAug 2005
Dt: no problems leading up to the failure, and then while backing car out of garage, steering column locked, removed key, waited 10 seconds as shown on dashboard and the vehicle started. Went for a few feet and the fuel line shut car off. Had to push car into the garage and then…
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Decoded via NHTSA vPIC. Recalls, complaints and safety from NHTSA; MPG from EPA fueleconomy.gov. Full history reports from our partner. VIN 1G1YY32G125112599 · decoded Oct 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.