Recall Register

GMC C/K Pickup: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the GMC C/K Pickup, model years 1978 to 2002. NHTSA has 61 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 8 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19780
  2. 19860
  3. 19970
  4. 19981
  5. 19990
  6. 20000
  7. 20010
  8. 20020
GMC C/K Pickup: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 GMC C/K Pickup NHTSA page0566%
2001 GMC C/K Pickup NHTSA page0452%
2000 GMC C/K Pickup NHTSA page0679%
1999 GMC C/K Pickup NHTSA page08105%
1998 GMC C/K Pickup NHTSA page111144%507,171
1997 GMC C/K Pickup025328%
1986 GMC C/K Pickup NHTSA page0113%
1978 GMC C/K Pickup NHTSA page0113%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

69 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

GMC C/K Pickup: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic333.323
Visibility260.918
Steering876
Service Brakes, Air584
Electrical System43.53
Fuel System, Gasoline43.53
Structure292
Tires14.51
Power Train14.51
Equipment14.51

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC C/K Pickup, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2003, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the GMC C/K Pickup, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 17 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 129 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC C/K Pickup: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/c-k-pickup/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which GMC C/K Pickup model years have the most recall campaigns?
1998 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC C/K Pickup model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 25 of the 61 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC C/K Pickup name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 333.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 260.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 87 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC C/K Pickup?
7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.