Recall Register

1997 GMC C/K Pickup: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1997 GMC C/K Pickup. NHTSA has 25 complaints on file for this model year. 2 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1997 GMC C/K Pickup. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 25 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

25 complaints, 28 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1997 GMC C/K Pickup: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Visibility11
Steering6
Service Brakes, Hydraulic4
Service Brakes, Air2
Power Train1
Equipment1
Electrical System1
Service Brakes1
Fuel System, Gasoline1
Complaints that report a crash
0
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
16 Aug 2014

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1997 GMC C/K Pickup, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 9 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1997 GMC C/K Pickup
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA02006Engineering analysisWINDSHIELD WIPER FAILUREVisibility / Windshield Wiper/Washer / Motor31 May 200223 Jul 200303V159000
PE98060Preliminary evaluationERRATIC STEERING BOOST WHILE DRIVINGSteering13 Nov 199812 May 1999

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other 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

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1997 GMC C/K Pickup: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/c-k-pickup/1997/. 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
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the GMC C/K Pickup have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the GMC C/K Pickup, model years 1978 to 2002. It does not name the 1997 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1997 GMC C/K Pickup name most often?
Visibility: 11 of 28 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1997 GMC C/K Pickup open?
No. Each of the 2 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.