2002 Oldsmobile Bravada transmission problems

Filed Feb 2, 2017 · Seat belts, Suspension · 248,000 miles · TN

At 60k miles had to replace transmission and motor (with 2003 chevy blazer). Mirrors don't recall and move when unlocking car. Passenger seat belt gets tight after braking and has to be undone, recoiled, and put back on. Backup lights blow every year. The awd was fixed twice by dealer and messed up again so we had it removed. The air suspension blew & was replaced with springs. Terrible racket in the rear end. Driver heated seat quit working 2 years ago. This year, transmission has quit working (while driving) and I am over this car!

Filed Dec 4, 2015 · Transmission · 79,000 miles · FL

Tl* the contact owns a 2002 oldsmobile bravada. The contact stated that while driving at 60 MPH, the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle was diagnosed that the PCM failed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 79,000.

Filed Apr 15, 2013 · Tires, Transmission · 139,289 miles · IN

It all began when I went to walmart to get some tires on my 2002 oldsmobile bravada all-wheel drive...well I didn't have enough money for all 4 tires,so I asked them if I could put tires on it? And they said yes..so that is what we did..well 1 month after I had those 2 tires put on the front,the front end of the truck started making noise and was hard to turn...I took it to my mechanic and he said walmart should have never put just 2 tires on the truck..cause all 4 tires have to be the same or it will mess the 4 wheel drive up..well it messed the front differential up on my truck..I told walmart about it and they paid to fix my truck and paid for 2 more tires for the truck making all the tires the same...well its not been a year and its starting to do the same thing again!!!! So I don't know if this is a big problem on these all wheel drive vehicles but it has been for me!! Now I sit here with a wife and three kids with no vehicle!!!!

Filed Jan 21, 2009 · Transmission · 57,500 miles · MN · crash

On friday, 01/16/09 at 7:45 am I was on my way to work. As I was driving the "service all wheel drive" light came on. I was only a couple of blocks from work so figured I would continue my drive and call a mechanic when I got there. All of a sudden it was like the vehicle became possessed and I had no control of the vehicle. It spun me around 3 times slammed me head on into a snowback, threw me back out spun me around again and threw me backwards into the snowbank again before throwing me back out onto the highway. I was very shaken but the vehicle seemed to straighten out and let me drive, so I very slowly continued on to work. When I got to work I called koronis motors in paynesville and explained to them what had happened. They came and picked up the vehicle and checked it out. They said it was a malfunction of the all wheel drive and that the transfer case would need to be replaced. I was very fortunate that on that particular morning, for some reason there was no traffic, had there been it would have been much more serious. Koronis motors is in the process fixing my vehicle now, the mechanical as well as the physical damage that was done. I can't believe that auto makers are allowed to equip vehicles with mechanics that can fail in that way, I had absolutely no control of the vehicle, I or someone else could have been seriously injured or killed. I didn't think that the minute the light came on that it meant that you should immediately stop driving!!!! This needs to be looked at very seriously.

Filed Dec 23, 2008 · Transmission · 102,000 miles · WI

In snowy weather the awd failed. The truck vibrates when turning in both dry and wet conditions.

Filed Oct 9, 2008 · Transmission · WI

My mother's 2002 oldsmobile bravada has a baseball size hole in the front differential, she was driving and everytime she would turn or just turn slightly she would hear a grinding noise. She took it in to the dealer where she had purchased the vehicle and the dealer told her what the problem was and how much it would be to fix it. The vehicle is now in my garage where we are waiting for the parts to come in. I went online to find out if this was a common problem and come to find out it is a very common problem and it happens alot to the bravada. Do people have to wait until someone is hurt or injured for this to be recalled? So with this knowledge than why is it not on the recall list this is not just happening to a couple of people it has happened to thousands and why hasn't anything been done about this? Thank you for your time, jennifer harris

Filed Aug 15, 2008 · Transmission · 90,000 miles · MI

Gm has a knows issue on 02,03 and 04 bravadas, trailblazers, envoy's and raniers. The transmission cooler lines have a hard interference with the catalytic converter. Once it wears through a steady stream of fluid leak onto the converter. This issue is documented in service bulletin pi01573. They do not feel it is a safety issue even though I see other vehicles have been recalled for the same thing.

Filed Mar 10, 2008 · Transmission · 74,103 miles · MI

Transmission and all-wheel drive problem when beginning to move, the car jerks 3 or 4 times and there is a metal clinking noise under the front. The all-wheel drive fails to engage. There is also a problem when turning the wheel sharply at reduced speeds. The car will jerk and there is a weird noise. I just took my car in and this repair is going to cost between $2000 - $4000 dollars.

Filed Jan 5, 2008 · Transmission · VA

The drive train needs replacing at 64k miles. The car is basically in constant 4wd, which makes turning at slow speeds very difficult without lots of gas and it is noisy. This car is too young to be facing this type of issue and with low miles (usually 100k for this sort of thing).

Filed Oct 15, 2007 · Transmission · 108,000 miles · OH

The differential and now the cam bearings are going. The vehicle has 108,000. We did regular oil changes and maintenance on the vehicle. We even bought the extended warranty but that ran out at 100,000. Driving down the road the vehicle started to lurch then would not go over 35 MPH. Front differential had a whole the size of a baseball blown out. The dealer had never seen anything like it. It was in such a place that you would not have hit anything to make this happen. Now that that is repaired we are loosing oil pressure and have been told the best way to repair this with a motor with this many miles is pull it and put a crate motor in it at $4-5,000. The vehicle itself looks like new. Now is $36,000 pile of junk! And we still owe on it!