Recall Register

GMC C6500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the GMC C6500, model years 1974 to 2009. NHTSA has 5 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 9 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. 19741
  2. 19970
  3. 19982
  4. 19994
  5. 20003
  6. 20012
  7. 20021
  8. 20071
  9. 20090
GMC C6500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2009 GMC C6500 NHTSA page01180%
2007 GMC C6500 NHTSA page11180%117
2002 GMC C6500 NHTSA page100%222
2001 GMC C6500200%30,222
2000 GMC C650031180%44,614
1999 GMC C6500400%45,005
1998 GMC C6500200%31,590
1997 GMC C6500 NHTSA page02360%
1974 GMC C6500 NHTSA page100%42,723

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

5 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 C6500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train2001
Steering2001
Service Brakes2001
Tires2001
Equipment2001

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC C6500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC C6500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 1 complaint.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 129 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC C6500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/c6500/. 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 C6500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1999 with 4, 2000 with 3, 2001 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC C6500 model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 2 of the 5 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC C6500 name?
Power Train: 1 component mention. Steering: 1 component mention. Service Brakes: 1 component mention.