Six problems related to equipment have been reported for the 2002 Chevrolet Avalanche. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2002 Chevrolet Avalanche based on all problems reported for the 2002 Avalanche.
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‘’’’’’frame’’’’’’I was heading to work and and something snapped while driving. I then brought vehicle to fire stone in kingsport TN. I was told it tie rod end had it replaced well the sound was still thier. Then I returned with vehicle pitman arm and bracket replaced nope banging noise was still there. I then called corporate up spoke mike I was told to return the vehicle bake to fire stone on a weds all day long they were looking over the vehicle come to find out frame snapped where cross member is on drivers side of vehicle. While the passenger side was still solid. I am not the only one dealing with issue as of now I am finding out more vehicles 2002 to the the 2005 chevy Avalanches 5. 3 4x4’s have this problem. Why hasn’t there been a recall on this issue like Toyota has done. I have 276,000 miles on this truck would like to have it fixed.
Cables that hold on the tailgate have broken on one side. Chevrolet claims no recall for this VIN number vehicle. Yet online it says 2002 Avalanche has recall for cables.
I put the truck in park and was unable to put it back into gear.
The engine will die at any time with out warning. This happens fairly often. Sometimes after trying to restart it will restart with no delay and other times it will take a few minutes. Then it will run normally for no specific amount of time. Then it will die again. Incidences may occur hundreds of miles in between. The dealer says they don't know why it would do this and it would be very difficult to diagnose the problem because it happens spontaneously and it usually restarts quickly. This is very dangerous and turning the vehicle to get off the road when the engine dies is very hard to do.
Trailer hitch receiver seems to twist slightly when used.