2002 Pontiac Grand Am

BOUGHT THE CAR IN 03 HAD 30000 MILES ON IT. RAN GREAT, LOVED THE POWER... THEN ABOUT 6 MONTHS LATER(36,000) IT STARTED.. FIRST WAS THE BRAKE PADS, REPLACED THOSE, FOUND OUT THAT THE PADS HAD BEEN INSTALLED INCORRECTLY, THUS WORE THE ROTORS. REPLACED THE ROTORS. HEARD THE CLICKING SOUND FROM UNDER THE DASH, TOOK CAR TO ELECTRICIAN, REPLACED THE RELAY.... 1 YEAR LATER, HEARD GRINDING FROM FRONT WHEELS, AGAIN.... FOUND OUT THE CALIPERS WERE STUCK AT FULL BRAKE, SO THE PADS, ROTORS AND CALIPERS NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. HAD THE CAR STALL AS IF IT WERE OUT OF GAS.... COULD NOT RESTART, HAD TO LEAVE UNTIL MORNING(IT WAS 3:00 AM AT THE TIME), CAR RESTARTED JUST FINE IN MORNING, STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WAS ALL ABOUT. NOW RADIO ANTENNA WENT OUT, CD PLAYER SKIPS LIKE I AM RUNNING OVER SPEED BUMPS ALL THE TIME. ALSO BACK SPEAKERS WENT OUT.. INVESTIGATED AND FOUND THAT THE METAL ON THE SPEAKERS WAS INSTALLED TOUCHING THE FRAME IN THE BACK WINDOW, CAUSING THEM TO SHORT OUT... NOW CAR IS SURGING AT NORMAL SPEEDS, SUSPECT BAD FUEL PUMP.. AND ONCE AGAIN THE LICKING IS BACK AGAIN. GM HAS PAID $0 FOR REPAIRS. THEY SAY IT IS NOT THEIR FAULT... FUNNY, I DID NOT INSTALL THESE THINGS AND THEY ARE APPARENTLY PROBLEMS THAT GM HAS BEEN HAVING. I LOVE(RATHER LOVED) GM. I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THEM TO BE RELIABLE AND STURDY. THIS CAR HAS TAUGHT ME OTHERWISE. I CAN NOW SEE THE DIRECTION THAT GM IS GOING AND I WILL NEVER BUY A GM VEHICLE AGAIN. IF ANYONE HAS ANY OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THEIR CARS THEY CAN NOT FIGURE OUT, LET ME KNOW. I HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS CAR ABOUT A 100 TIMES AND KNOW WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR. HOPING GM WAKES UP AND MAKES QUALITY CARS AGAIN. *JB

I OWN A 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM SE 1. I HAVE BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE PASS LOCK SYSTEM. THE SECURITY LIGHT COMES ON IN THE CAR, AND EVENTUALLY THE CAR HAS PROBLEMS STARTING. THE ENGINE CRANKS BUT THE CAR WILL NOT START. I HAVE BEEN STRANDED BECAUSE OF THIS PROBLEM AND THERE IS NO RECALL ON IT. I BELIEVE THAT THIS PROBLEM COULD CREATE PARTICULARLY UNSAFE SITUATIONS, AND SHOULD BE RECALLED. MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE PASS LOCK SYSTEMS IN 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AMS. I HAVE LOOKED AT THE FORUMS. *NM

I HAD TO HAVE THE MULTI-FUNCTION SWITCH ON MY 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM REPLACED AT A COST OF $323.00. THE SWITCH KEPT CLICKING, EVEN WHEN THE TURN SIGNALS AND HAZARD LIGHTS WERE NOT IN USE. I WAS TOLD THAT THE SWITCH WOULD ULTIMATELY FAIL, LEAVING ME WITH NO TURN SIGNAL OR HAZARD LIGHT FUNCTION. THIS WAS A RECALL ITEM ON BOTH THE 2000 AND 2001 GRAND AMS. OBVIOUSLY, THE PROBLEM WAS NOT SOLVED IN THE 2002 MODEL, BUT SINCE THAT MODEL YEAR IS NOT PART OF THE RECALL, I HAD TO PAY FOR THE REPAIR OUT OF MY OWN POCKET. DOES THIS SEEM RIGHT TO YOU?. *NM

WE PURCHASE A 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM SE IN JULY OF 2005 FROM CHAMPION CHEVROLET IN BRIGHTON MICHIGAN, WE HAD IT IN TO DEALER WITHIN THE FIRST FEW WEEKS OF OWNING IT, WHICH THEY DIDN'T REPAIR THAT DAY BECAUSE WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE WOULD TAKE TO LONG SO IT WAS TAKEN IN THE FOLLOWING SAT. HAD THE ABS,TRAC CONTROL AND THE SERVICE ENGINE SOON SENSOR WAS REPLACED AND THERE WAS A NOISE UNDER THE FRONT DRIVERS SIDE WHICH WAS FIXED BUT CAME BACK A WEEK LATER THEY TOLD US THAT THE NOISE WAS NORMAL, I DON'T BELIEVE THIS AS NONE OF OUR OTHER CARS MAKE THIS NOISE NOT EVEN OUR CHEVY PICKUP TRUCK. WE ALSO HAD IT BACK IN AGAIN FOR THE SENSORS FOR THE ABS, TRAC CONTROL AND THE SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT THAT KEEPS COMING ON. WE CONT'D TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM AND STILL DON'T HAVE IT FIXED. WHEN THE LIGHTS COME ON I DON'T HAVE MY ABS BRAKES ANYMORE AND NO TRAC CONTROL. MY BLINKERS ALSO HAVE BEEN GIVING ME A PROBLEM AS SOMETIMES THEY WORK AND OTHER TIMES THEY DON'T. MOST OF THE TIME I CAN GET THEM TO WORK IF I PUT MY HAZARD LIGHTS ON FOR A FEW MINS. BUT I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO. I HAVE BEEN A GM PERSON ALL MY LIFE AS MY DAD HAS WORKED FOR GM FOR 35 SOMETHING YRS. BUT THEY NEED TO FIXS THESE PROBLEMS AS IT IS UNSAFE FOR ME, MY CHILDREN, MY HUSBAND OR WHOEVER ELSE MAYBE IN THE CAR AND THE OTHER DRIVERS ON THE ROAD ESPECIALLY HERE IN MICHIGAN WITH SNOWY AND ICY ROADS. I ALSO HAVE READ SOME OF THE OTHER COMPLAINTS HERE AND IT SEEMS THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEMS. I WAS ALSO TOLD TODAY WHILE GETTING MY OIL CHANGE DONE THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE DEXCOOL IN THIS CAR TOO. I DID LOOK AROUND ON THE NET AND NOTICE THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVING THIS PROBLEM. I HAVE NOT HAD THIS PROBLEM YET AS I ONLY HAVE 50,000 MILES ON MY CAR BUT SOME OF THE SIGNS THAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT I HAVE NOTICE SO IT WILL GO INTO A DEALER TO HAVE IT CHECKED AND I WILL BE KEEPING MY INVOICES AS I HOPE GM DOES THE RIGHT THING AND TAKES CARE OF THIS PROBLEM TO. *NM

DT: CONSUMERS DAUGHTER WENT TO START THE VEHICLE AND IT WOULD NOT START. THE VEHICLE TURNED OVER BUT DID NOT START. THE INDICATOR LIGHT FOR THE THEFT SYSTEM WAS ON. SHE HAD THE VEHICLE TOWED HOME. HAD TO TURN THE VEHICLE OFF, PUT IT IN THE ON POSITION FOR TEN MINUTES, THEN SHUT IT OFF, THEN ATTEMPTED TO RESTART THE VEHICLE. IN THE OWNER'S MANUAL THIS WAS WHAT IT RECOMMENDED TO DO IN ORDER TO BYPASS THE THEFT SYSTEM. THE DEALER HAS NOT CHECKED THIS VEHICLE. *AK UPDATED 12/07/05. *JB

I HAVE A 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM - APPROXIMATELY 50,000 MILES - ABOUT A MONTH AGO, THERE BEGAN A LOUD CLICKING NOISE COMING FROM THE DASHBOARD (IT SOUNDS LIKE THE TURN SIGNAL IS ON) - IT CLICKS CONSTANTLY, SOMETIMES REAL FAST AND OTHER TIMES, SLOWER. I HAVE READ MANY COMPLAINTS, BUT HAVE FOUND NO RECALLS YET. I RECENTLY HAD AN OIL CHANGE AND THE MANAGER TOLD ME HIS WIFE'S 2002 GRAND AM HAD THE SAME PROBLEM AND HE FOUND OUT THERE MAY BE A RECALL ISSUED. I WOULD LIKE TO WHEN THERE IS GOING TO BE A RECALL ON THIS ISSUE OR HOW I CAN GET THIS RESOLVED. IS THE DEALER RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SEEING THAT MY WARRANTY HAS NOW EXPIRED? *JB

2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM GT PASSLOCK FAILS AND CAUSED CAR NOT TO START. CAR NOT ABLE TO START UNTIL COMPLETE A 30 MINUTE RESET PROCESS. COULD BE VERY RANDOM, AND THEREFORE DANGEROUS PROBLEM FOR GM CAR USERS. I HAVE READ COUNTLESS SIMILAR COMPLAINTS ON THE INTERNET AND THINK THE GM AND PONTIAC SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION BEFORE THIS SYSTEMATIC PROBLEMS CAUSES A TRAGEDY. *JB

CAR WAS AT GAS STATION AND WOULDN'T START. HAD IT TOWED TO SHOP AND THEY SAID THE PASSLOCK CODE FAILED. THEY STATED THE IGNITION SWITCH AND THE IGNITION LOCK CYLINDER NEEDS REPLACED. WELL I REPLACED THE SWITCH AND NOTHING. SO I CALLED A DEALER AND THEY STATED THAT THE SENSOR IN THE LOCK CYLINDER HAS WENT OUT AND NEEDED REPLACED. SO I HAVE ORDERED THE LOCK CYLINDER IT WAS 160.11,THE SWITCH WAS 60.00 DOLLARS. THE SHOP WANTED 900.00 DOLLARS TO REPAIR,ILL DO IT MYSELF. *NM