Recall Register

GMC Sierra 1500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 61 recall campaigns for the GMC Sierra 1500, model years 1994 to 2026. NHTSA has 848 complaints on file for this model line. 28 of the 33 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. 19940
  2. 19950
  3. 19960
  4. 19973
  5. 19982
  6. 19991
  7. 20001
  8. 20012
  9. 20021
  10. 20031
  11. 20042
  12. 20050
  13. 20060
  14. 20072
  15. 20082
  16. 20094
  17. 20104
  18. 20115
  19. 20123
  20. 20133
  21. 20149
  22. 20159
  23. 20168
  24. 20176
  25. 20187
  26. 201910
  27. 202012
  28. 20217
  29. 20226
  30. 20233
  31. 20241
  32. 20251
  33. 20262
GMC Sierra 1500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 GMC Sierra 1500200%5,927
2025 GMC Sierra 1500 NHTSA page100%86
2024 GMC Sierra 1500 NHTSA page100%597,571
2023 GMC Sierra 1500300%1,787,350
2022 GMC Sierra 1500600%1,873,039
2021 GMC Sierra 1500700%1,694,749
2020 GMC Sierra 15001200%2,058,981
2019 GMC Sierra 15001000%2,178,592
2018 GMC Sierra 1500700%4,135,159
2017 GMC Sierra 1500600%7,821,737
2016 GMC Sierra 1500800%8,215,126
2015 GMC Sierra 1500900%10,123,547
2014 GMC Sierra 1500900%9,710,383
2013 GMC Sierra 1500300%2,476,808
2012 GMC Sierra 1500300%2,068,927
2011 GMC Sierra 1500500%4,457,382
2010 GMC Sierra 1500428%5,118,080
2009 GMC Sierra 15004831%3,896,975
2008 GMC Sierra 150022597%3,198,295
2007 GMC Sierra 1500242163%3,198,295
2006 GMC Sierra 1500054210%
2005 GMC Sierra 1500077300%
2004 GMC Sierra 15002118459%1,945
2003 GMC Sierra 1500184327%1,660
2002 GMC Sierra 1500164249%1,660
2001 GMC Sierra 1500269269%79,145
2000 GMC Sierra 1500199385%3,758
1999 GMC Sierra 1500178304%279,132
1998 GMC Sierra 1500250195%56,409
1997 GMC Sierra 1500367261%686,123
1996 GMC Sierra 1500 NHTSA page0416%
1995 GMC Sierra 1500 NHTSA page028%
1994 GMC Sierra 1500 NHTSA page0519%

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

1,003 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 Sierra 1500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic302.1303
Electrical System173.5174
Steering82.883
Power Train52.853
Visibility44.945
Engine and Engine Cooling40.941
Suspension36.937
Parking Brake33.934
Vehicle Speed Control27.928
Tires26.927

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC Sierra 1500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 10 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC Sierra 1500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 187 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 122 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC Sierra 1500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/sierra-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
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 Sierra 1500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 12, 2019 with 10, 2015 with 9. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC Sierra 1500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2004 model year, with 118 of the 848 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC Sierra 1500 name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 302.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 173.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 82.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC Sierra 1500?
12 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.