Recall Register

GMC Savana 3500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the GMC Savana 3500, model years 1997 to 2009. NHTSA has 10 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 8 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. 20063
  8. 20090
GMC Savana 3500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2009 GMC Savana 3500 NHTSA page0180%
2006 GMC Savana 3500300%141
2003 GMC Savana 3500 NHTSA page03240%
2002 GMC Savana 3500 NHTSA page02160%
2001 GMC Savana 3500 NHTSA page0180%
2000 GMC Savana 3500 NHTSA page0180%
1999 GMC Savana 3500 NHTSA page0180%
1997 GMC Savana 3500 NHTSA page0180%

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

17 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 3500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System176.53
Service Brakes, Hydraulic176.53
Suspension117.62
Unknown or Other117.62
Engine and Engine Cooling117.62
Air Bags58.81
Structure58.81
Exterior Lighting58.81
Tires58.81
Equipment58.81

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC Savana 3500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2008, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC Savana 3500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 4 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 122 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC Savana 3500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/savana-3500/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
MYERS EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

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 3500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2006 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC Savana 3500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 3 of the 10 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC Savana 3500 name?
Electrical System: 3 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 3 component mentions. Suspension: 2 component mentions.