Hi, I"m Karen.
I have a white 2002 Monte Carlo SS 3800 series.
It was a one owner car when I bought it used a little over a week ago.
I was told it was "Her baby".
Now it's my baby, and I want to take the best of care of it!
I'm not sure on trim level, I know it's an SS, I know it's white, I know it has a badge on the front that says nothing.
Do any of you know?
It came pretty loaded, has a sun roof (off track, can only use as moon roof and I'm not complaining, nor can I afford whatever it would cost to repair that.)
I'm just not about to strip the gears in the motor for it by so much as opening it without it retracting back. It sounds BAD.
It has the radio with the tape deck (lost my cassettes long agao) but it also has a single CD player.
Power driver's seat. Power windows. The seats are tan, and while they look a lot like leather, the airholes on the seat itself tell me vinyl. Another quetion perhaps an enthusiast might answer for me.
Does anyone know what speciic trim level that would be? It has a double line of thin silver pin striping from hood to back windows.
As for me..I'm 53.
I live in the northernmost tip of the Rocky Mountains.
I was born in CA, visited a lot when my dad and step-family moved back there from Oregon.
I moved back myself as an adult, the last time I lived there was 1990.
Had the pleasure of flying to San Bernardino summer before last, and took two paraglides.
Nothing beats running off of a 4K peak and catching thermals, I'm lucky to have had the experience of Marshall Peak and the Andy Jackson Airpark.
Not even skydiving was as much fun.
My job experience involves cashiering, pumping gas (Orgeon has a law against self-service) DJ office manager, grocery stores, Wal-Mart, and some 20 years of caregiving including working directily with hospice.
I love to fly. I love to go fast. I love mountains with glacial lakes and I love CA, fondest of memories in Chula Vista at my grandparets'.
I'm grateul to be here and hope to learn as much as possible about this car.

 

Welcome to the forums Karen

 

Thank you.

 

Welcome to the MCForum. I used to live in CA back in the 60's last year we took a trip with a group to WA, Oregon and northern CA,
I was kinda shocked in CA to see so many homeless everywhere, what a mess.
But on to the Monte I think I have an original 2002 Brochure if I can get some time I will take a few shots of it and post it here for you.

 

Thank you! I remember when I left in '90 the smog line from the Sacramento Valley was all the way up to Auburn. When I visited San Bernardion there was much turmoil on the radio about homeless throughout LA. San Francisco has become a nightmare, I'm told. It's all so very sad. I remember in '90 I-80 from Sacramento to the Bay Bridge was almost completely filled in with suburbs and businesses on either side. One just ran into another. I can't imagine how croweded it is now. This Monte has the original owner's manual. I just had to replace the radiator...could not convince them to properly bleed it...they insisted they had a machine to "suck all the air out of the system" but the next morning I was well below the cold line. I brought it back up and their solution was to add coolant, too much..saying that it had been low because the antifreeze had finally found its way into all the spaces in the engine it was supposed to. I'd just assumed that it was because it hadn't been run with that bleeder valve open and cap off like the instructions said..but I kept my mouth shut, since I'm just a chick, and the car is 17 years old, aferall, lol.

 

Okay here is the 2002 Brochure for the Monte Carlo I just shot it with the I-phone.
hope that helps a little.

 

"Okay here is the 2002 Brochure for the Monte Carlo I just shot it with the I-phone.
hope that helps a little."

Oh, this is incredibly cool! Thank you SO MUCH! What a beautiful brochure to have, I love this car more and more all the time! Seems I do have leather seats. Now I'm trying to figure out how to download this to my computer!

 

I just downloaded all of this neatly into a 19 page 2002 Monte Carlo Brochure folder. Thanks again!

 

Karen, maybe somebody else will confirm their experience, or you have heard: you should be able to take your VIN to your friendly GM dealer and ask them to print you the spec sheet for your car. While we don't have the original window sticker, I consider this the next best thing: it gives user friendly descriptions of the "RPO" codes.
Since you have an SS, I suspect you have a finned aluminum box in the upper front of the trunk; I didn't study the brochure. If so, that's the amplifier/heart of your clean sounding, deep bass stereo system!

 

I do, indeed! It's been quite a joy, I sometimes forget I have radio even, let alone a tape deck and CD player! It DOES sound good! I've no tapes anymore, and just a few CDs survived the move before this one...time to start collecting again! I used our MCF vin decoder to find out that this car was manufactured in Canada. I'm assuming that was also where it was purchased new...trip out! I just learned there is a chevy dealer in Ponderay...that's 21 miles South. I can check the specs further there, as you've suggested! Maybe they can run up if this one has had the 7 recalls repaired. Thanks for the tip, I'd thought a chevy dealership would be hours and hours away.