Recall Register

GMC Safari: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 15 recall campaigns for the GMC Safari, model years 1985 to 2005. NHTSA has 1,111 complaints on file for this model line. 15 of the 21 model years have a page on this register.

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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. 19852
  2. 19861
  3. 19871
  4. 19882
  5. 19893
  6. 19904
  7. 19913
  8. 19921
  9. 19930
  10. 19941
  11. 19953
  12. 19964
  13. 19974
  14. 19983
  15. 19991
  16. 20000
  17. 20011
  18. 20021
  19. 20031
  20. 20040
  21. 20050
GMC Safari: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2005 GMC Safari NHTSA page036%
2004 GMC Safari NHTSA page048%
2003 GMC Safari NHTSA page11528%41,477
2002 GMC Safari NHTSA page12343%77,055
2001 GMC Safari13464%77,055
2000 GMC Safari062117%
1999 GMC Safari161115%461,851
1998 GMC Safari388166%971,112
1997 GMC Safari4133251%2,238,789
1996 GMC Safari4139263%2,238,789
1995 GMC Safari3193365%1,758,982
1994 GMC Safari1119225%2,255
1993 GMC Safari061115%
1992 GMC Safari159112%341,364
1991 GMC Safari33974%950,413
1990 GMC Safari43566%981,053
1989 GMC Safari31732%950,413
1988 GMC Safari2713%945,571
1987 GMC Safari NHTSA page11121%604,207
1986 GMC Safari NHTSA page1713%604,207
1985 GMC Safari212%630,948

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

1,504 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 Safari: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic218.8329
Visibility117176
Suspension81.1122
Engine and Engine Cooling67.8102
Electrical System61.893
Power Train60.591
Steering58.588
Structure45.969
Seat Belts38.658
Fuel System, Gasoline37.957

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC Safari, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2003, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC Safari, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 161 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 122 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC Safari: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/safari/. 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
29 Mar 2018
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 Safari model years have the most recall campaigns?
1997 with 4, 1996 with 4, 1990 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC Safari model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 193 of the 1,111 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC Safari name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 218.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 117 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 81.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC Safari?
14 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.