Recall Register

GMC S15: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 13 recall campaigns for the GMC S15, model years 1980 to 2001. NHTSA has 54 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 20 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. 19800
  2. 19822
  3. 19831
  4. 19841
  5. 19850
  6. 19862
  7. 19871
  8. 19880
  9. 19891
  10. 19901
  11. 19913
  12. 19921
  13. 19930
  14. 19942
  15. 19951
  16. 19961
  17. 19970
  18. 19980
  19. 19990
  20. 20010
GMC S15: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2001 GMC S15 NHTSA page0137%
1999 GMC S15 NHTSA page0137%
1998 GMC S15 NHTSA page0274%
1997 GMC S15 NHTSA page0274%
1996 GMC S15 NHTSA page13111%24,906
1995 GMC S15 NHTSA page13111%73,163
1994 GMC S1526222%147,463
1993 GMC S15 NHTSA page04148%
1992 GMC S15 NHTSA page13111%215,052
1991 GMC S1538296%215,470
1990 GMC S15 NHTSA page13111%215,052
1989 GMC S15 NHTSA page18296%215,052
1988 GMC S15 NHTSA page0274%
1987 GMC S15 NHTSA page13111%60
1986 GMC S1523111%116,175
1985 GMC S15 NHTSA page0137%
1984 GMC S15 NHTSA page100%76,586
1983 GMC S15 NHTSA page100%35,919
1982 GMC S15200%1,845,919
1980 GMC S15 NHTSA page0137%

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

71 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 S15: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic267.619
Engine and Engine Cooling112.78
Electrical System112.78
Visibility112.78
Seat Belts98.67
Steering56.34
Exterior Lighting42.33
Seats28.22
Fuel System, Gasoline28.22
Unknown or Other28.22

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC S15, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC S15, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1998, with 11 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 129 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC S15: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/s15/. 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 S15 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1991 with 3, 1994 with 2, 1986 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC S15 model year has the most complaints?
The 1989 model year, with 8 of the 54 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC S15 name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 267.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 112.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 112.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC S15?
7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.