Recall Register

GMC Canyon: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 31 recall campaigns for the GMC Canyon, model years 2004 to 2026. NHTSA has 507 complaints on file for this model line. 16 of the 19 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. 20043
  2. 20053
  3. 20064
  4. 20073
  5. 20082
  6. 20093
  7. 20102
  8. 20115
  9. 20122
  10. 20158
  11. 20164
  12. 20171
  13. 20181
  14. 20212
  15. 20221
  16. 20233
  17. 20243
  18. 20252
  19. 20262
GMC Canyon: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 GMC Canyon200%6,981
2025 GMC Canyon200%6,981
2024 GMC Canyon300%22,983
2023 GMC Canyon300%55,923
2022 GMC Canyon NHTSA page100%1,631
2021 GMC Canyon200%7,669
2018 GMC Canyon NHTSA page1622%895
2017 GMC Canyon NHTSA page11660%895
2016 GMC Canyon448180%11,253
2015 GMC Canyon8100375%141,263
2012 GMC Canyon21452%124,393
2011 GMC Canyon51037%353,484
2010 GMC Canyon2830%311,476
2009 GMC Canyon32282%405,767
2008 GMC Canyon232120%378,579
2007 GMC Canyon333124%381,806
2006 GMC Canyon440150%815,380
2005 GMC Canyon3105393%783,312
2004 GMC Canyon373274%783,312

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

703 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 Canyon: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System155109
Power Train118.183
Steering98.269
Engine71.150
Exterior Lighting55.539
Air Bags51.236
Service Brakes46.933
Structure44.131
Unknown or Other38.427
Engine and Engine Cooling3726

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC Canyon, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2024, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC Canyon, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 71 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 129 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC Canyon: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/canyon/. 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 Canyon model years have the most recall campaigns?
2015 with 8, 2011 with 5, 2016 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC Canyon model year has the most complaints?
The 2005 model year, with 105 of the 507 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC Canyon name?
Electrical System: 155 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 118.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 98.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC Canyon?
5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.