Recall Register

GMC Sierra Denali: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the GMC Sierra Denali, model years 2002 to 2020. NHTSA has 249 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 18 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. 20020
  2. 20040
  3. 20051
  4. 20060
  5. 20070
  6. 20080
  7. 20090
  8. 20100
  9. 20110
  10. 20120
  11. 20130
  12. 20140
  13. 20150
  14. 20160
  15. 20170
  16. 20180
  17. 20190
  18. 20200
GMC Sierra Denali: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2020 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page01180%
2019 GMC Sierra Denali026188%
2018 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page017123%
2017 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page014101%
2016 GMC Sierra Denali030217%
2015 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page022159%
2014 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page014101%
2013 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page0858%
2012 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page01072%
2011 GMC Sierra Denali028202%
2010 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page01072%
2009 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page0751%
2008 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page018130%
2007 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page017%
2006 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page0536%
2005 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page1429%2,536
2004 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page01180%
2002 GMC Sierra Denali NHTSA page01394%

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

334 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 Denali: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Unknown or Other161.754
Service Brakes131.744
Structure101.834
Power Train83.828
Steering80.827
Air Bags77.826
Engine65.922
Electrical System50.917
Service Brakes, Hydraulic35.912
Exterior Lighting29.910

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC Sierra Denali, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2005, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the GMC Sierra Denali, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2020, with 56 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 130 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC Sierra Denali: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/sierra-denali/. 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
30 Sep 2026
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 Denali model years have the most recall campaigns?
2005 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC Sierra Denali model year has the most complaints?
The 2016 model year, with 30 of the 249 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC Sierra Denali name?
Unknown or Other: 161.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes: 131.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 101.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC Sierra Denali?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.