Recall Register

2003 GMC Sierra 2500: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2003 GMC Sierra 2500. NHTSA has 159 complaints on file for this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2003 GMC Sierra 2500. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 159 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

159 complaints, 191 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.

  • 2003 GMC Sierra 2500
  • All 2003 vehicles
2003 GMC Sierra 2500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2003 Sierra 2500All 2003 vehiclesSierra 2500, all yearsMentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic230.458.7168.444
Electrical System188.5123.7112.336
Service Brakes146.630.5118.428
Power Train83.812155.416
Steering47.147.362.39
Suspension36.657.222.67
Fuel System, Diesel31.41.917.16
Engine31.427.334.26
Engine and Engine Cooling26.277.7525
Structure26.26242.45

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 24.

Complaints that report a crash
7
Complaints that report a fire
4
Injuries in the complaints
4
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
1 Apr 2019

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 2003 GMC Sierra 2500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 22 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19940
  2. 19972
  3. 19981
  4. 19990
  5. 20001
  6. 20012
  7. 20021
  8. 20030
  9. 20041
  10. 20051
  11. 20061
  12. 20073
  13. 20083
  14. 20095
  15. 20105
  16. 20114
  17. 20123
  18. 20133
  19. 20142
  20. 20156
  21. 20166
  22. 20176
  23. 20185
  24. 20197
  25. 20209
  26. 20216
  27. 20223
  28. 20231
  29. 20244
  30. 20251
  31. 20261

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2003 GMC Sierra 2500: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/sierra-2500/2003/. 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
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the GMC Sierra 2500 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 47 recall campaigns for the GMC Sierra 2500, model years 1994 to 2026. None of them names the 2003 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2003 GMC Sierra 2500 name most often?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 44 of 191 component mentions, or 230.4 per 1,000. For all 2003 vehicles the figure is 58.7 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2003 GMC Sierra 2500 open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.