Recall Register

GMC C15: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 29 recall campaigns for the GMC C15, model years 1972 to 1996. NHTSA has 40 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 14 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. 19721
  2. 19781
  3. 19822
  4. 19851
  5. 19862
  6. 19884
  7. 19891
  8. 19902
  9. 19910
  10. 19922
  11. 19932
  12. 19948
  13. 19956
  14. 19965
GMC C15: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1996 GMC C1554140%1,076,250
1995 GMC C15610350%1,691,895
1994 GMC C1587245%2,396,093
1993 GMC C1527245%678,256
1992 GMC C1526210%61,976
1991 GMC C15 NHTSA page0135%
1990 GMC C152270%2,030
1989 GMC C15 NHTSA page1135%5,863
1988 GMC C154135%76,360
1986 GMC C15200%106,143
1985 GMC C15 NHTSA page100%32
1982 GMC C15200%7,837
1978 GMC C15 NHTSA page1135%237,693
1972 GMC C15 NHTSA page100%260

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

44 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 C15: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Seats386.417
Service Brakes, Hydraulic159.17
Power Train90.94
Electrical System90.94
Steering68.23
Vehicle Speed Control68.23
Seat Belts45.52
Air Bags45.52
Structure22.71
Visibility22.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC C15, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1995, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC C15, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 17 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 129 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC C15: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/c15/. 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 C15 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1994 with 8, 1995 with 6, 1996 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC C15 model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 10 of the 40 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC C15 name?
Seats: 17 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 7 component mentions. Power Train: 4 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC C15?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.