What Esteem Owners Complain About

Sometimes it helps just to tally up the complaints and see where the biggest stacks are. Use this information to learn about troublespots or to run for the hills.

What Breaks

Years to Avoid

Esteem Generations

Generations are groups of model years where few, if any, changes were made to the vehicle which means their model years tend to break in similar ways. The Esteem has 1 generation available in North American markets.

  1. 1st Generation Esteem

    Years
    1998–2002
    Reliability
    4th of 14
    PainRank
    0.24
    Complaints
    4
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Esteem Key Numbers

  1. 2 complaints

    Running tally of owner grievances filed to CarComplaints.com.

  2. 6 service bulletins

    Documenting the process of troubleshooting common problems.

  3. 1 recall campaign

    Time-sensitive, free repairs for widespread safety problems.