Recall Register

GMC Jimmy: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 27 recall campaigns for the GMC Jimmy, model years 1970 to 2004. NHTSA has 2,716 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 25 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. 19701
  2. 19711
  3. 19811
  4. 19821
  5. 19831
  6. 19840
  7. 19850
  8. 19860
  9. 19870
  10. 19880
  11. 19890
  12. 19900
  13. 19914
  14. 19921
  15. 19932
  16. 19942
  17. 19956
  18. 19966
  19. 19974
  20. 19982
  21. 19990
  22. 20004
  23. 20013
  24. 20031
  25. 20041
GMC Jimmy: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2004 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page122%183,922
2003 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page111%183,922
2001 GMC Jimmy39789%668,544
2000 GMC Jimmy4210193%672,491
1999 GMC Jimmy0137126%
1998 GMC Jimmy2238219%19,788
1997 GMC Jimmy4274252%1,454,544
1996 GMC Jimmy6407375%5,506,051
1995 GMC Jimmy6499459%3,189,213
1994 GMC Jimmy2334307%1,126,489
1993 GMC Jimmy2216199%1,198,413
1992 GMC Jimmy1122112%1,125,749
1991 GMC Jimmy4118109%1,326,166
1990 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page01110%
1989 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page01312%
1988 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page01514%
1987 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page066%
1986 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page033%
1985 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page066%
1984 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page055%
1983 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page111%17,312
1982 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page111%1,633
1981 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page100%364
1971 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page100%124,000
1970 GMC Jimmy NHTSA page100%124,000

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

3,772 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 Jimmy: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic3341,260
Engine and Engine Cooling89.6338
Visibility88.8335
Suspension76.6289
Electrical System62.3235
Power Train61.2231
Fuel System, Gasoline36.6138
Air Bags29.2110
Steering25.596
Exterior Lighting23.990

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC Jimmy, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1994, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC Jimmy, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 344 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 129 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC Jimmy: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/jimmy/. 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 Jimmy model years have the most recall campaigns?
1996 with 6, 1995 with 6, 2000 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC Jimmy model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 499 of the 2,716 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC Jimmy name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 334 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 89.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 88.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC Jimmy?
22 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.