Recall Register

GMC Sierra 2500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 47 recall campaigns for the GMC Sierra 2500, model years 1997 to 2026. NHTSA has 462 complaints on file for this model line. 25 of the 30 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. 19972
  2. 19981
  3. 19990
  4. 20001
  5. 20012
  6. 20021
  7. 20030
  8. 20041
  9. 20051
  10. 20061
  11. 20073
  12. 20083
  13. 20095
  14. 20105
  15. 20114
  16. 20123
  17. 20133
  18. 20142
  19. 20156
  20. 20166
  21. 20176
  22. 20185
  23. 20197
  24. 20209
  25. 20216
  26. 20223
  27. 20231
  28. 20244
  29. 20251
  30. 20261
GMC Sierra 2500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 GMC Sierra 2500 NHTSA page100%5,861
2025 GMC Sierra 2500 NHTSA page100%8
2024 GMC Sierra 2500400%705,566
2023 GMC Sierra 2500 NHTSA page100%570,434
2022 GMC Sierra 2500300%1,036,970
2021 GMC Sierra 2500600%1,661,742
2020 GMC Sierra 2500900%2,218,435
2019 GMC Sierra 2500700%689,379
2018 GMC Sierra 2500500%718,635
2017 GMC Sierra 2500600%4,397,419
2016 GMC Sierra 2500600%4,565,474
2015 GMC Sierra 2500600%4,573,194
2014 GMC Sierra 2500200%1,784,282
2013 GMC Sierra 2500300%2,476,808
2012 GMC Sierra 2500300%2,068,927
2011 GMC Sierra 2500400%4,434,925
2010 GMC Sierra 2500516%5,127,451
2009 GMC Sierra 25005213%3,906,346
2008 GMC Sierra 25003426%340,268
2007 GMC Sierra 250031171%340,268
2006 GMC Sierra 2500128182%133
2005 GMC Sierra 2500144286%133
2004 GMC Sierra 2500167435%1,660
2003 GMC Sierra 2500079513%
2002 GMC Sierra 2500174481%38,863
2001 GMC Sierra 2500282532%116,348
2000 GMC Sierra 2500126169%3,758
1999 GMC Sierra 2500 NHTSA page020130%
1998 GMC Sierra 2500 NHTSA page11491%1,137
1997 GMC Sierra 250021065%630,851

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

570 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 2500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic270.2154
Electrical System164.994
Power Train89.551
Engine and Engine Cooling82.547
Steering77.244
Tires47.427
Structure33.319
Suspension29.817
Fuel System, Gasoline24.614
Fuel System, Diesel24.614

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC Sierra 2500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 9 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC Sierra 2500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 88 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 122 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC Sierra 2500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/sierra-2500/. 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 2500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 9, 2019 with 7, 2021 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC Sierra 2500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 82 of the 462 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC Sierra 2500 name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 270.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 164.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 89.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC Sierra 2500?
8 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.