2002 CADILLAC ESCALADE — Complaint #636610
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL:AUTOMATIC (ASC) filed August 30, 2007
NHTSA complaint #636610 (ODI reference 10201219) concerns a 2002 CADILLAC ESCALADE and was filed on August 30, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 28, 2007. The vehicle had 10 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electronic stability control:automatic (asc), one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CADILLAC ESCALADE cohort independently describe similar electronic stability control:automatic (asc) failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2002 CADILLAC ESCALADE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
ON 08/27/2007 MY STABILITY CONTROL SYSTEM LIGHT WAS ON IN THE DASH BOARD OF MY VEICLE, APPROACHED TRAFFIC LIGHT TRIED TO STOP AND THE BRAKES WOULD NOT WORK, THEN THE VEHICLE ACCELARATED ON ITS OWN. FOR THE GRACE OF GOD I WAS ABLE TO AVOID AN ACCIDENT DUE TO THE TRAFFIC BEING LIGHT. I HAD MY 2002 CADILLAC ESCALADE TOWED TO THE NEAREST CADILLAC SERVICE SHOP(KEN DIXON, WALDORF MD) IN THE AREA AT THE TIME. DEALER ADVISED AN ISSUE WITH THE ABS AND THE STABILITY CONTROL UNI ADV COST OF REPAIR $2600 OR MORE, ADVISED BY DEALER NO RECALL ON EITHER OF THESE ISSUES. TO DATE NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE, THE DEALER STILL HAS THE VEHICLE AND HAS YET TO RETURN ANY OF MY CALLS IN REFERENCE TO MY CLAIM. ITEMS OF ISSUE SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC: ANTILOCK- CONTROL UNIT/MODULE-COMPONENTS-SENSORS VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL -LINKAGE SUSPENSION WHICH INVOLVES THE STABILITY CONTROL (ASC)
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 636610 |
| ODI Number | 10201219 |
| Date Filed | August 30, 2007 |
| Failure Date | August 28, 2007 |
| VIN | 1GYEK63N12R |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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