Recall Register

GMC Savana 1500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the GMC Savana 1500, model years 1997 to 2015. NHTSA has 40 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 15 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. 19970
  2. 19990
  3. 20000
  4. 20010
  5. 20020
  6. 20030
  7. 20040
  8. 20050
  9. 20060
  10. 20071
  11. 20080
  12. 20100
  13. 20112
  14. 20140
  15. 20150
GMC Savana 1500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2015 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page0275%
2014 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page04150%
2011 GMC Savana 150023113%38,159
2010 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page0275%
2008 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page0275%
2007 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page13113%10,113
2006 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page0138%
2005 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page04150%
2004 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page05188%
2003 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page03113%
2002 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page0275%
2001 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page03113%
2000 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page04150%
1999 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page0138%
1997 GMC Savana 1500 NHTSA page0138%

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

45 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 Savana 1500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Tires111.15
Air Bags111.15
Steering88.94
Service Brakes, Hydraulic88.94
Service Brakes88.94
Engine66.73
Visibility66.73
Unknown or Other66.73
Fuel System, Gasoline44.42
Vehicle Speed Control44.42

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC Savana 1500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2011, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC Savana 1500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 5 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 129 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC Savana 1500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/savana-1500/. 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 Savana 1500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2011 with 2, 2007 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC Savana 1500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2004 model year, with 5 of the 40 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC Savana 1500 name?
Tires: 5 component mentions. Air Bags: 5 component mentions. Steering: 4 component mentions.