2011 GMC Sierra 1500
This year drew 732 complaints against a median of 331 across the GMC Sierra 1500's other years, 2.2× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 5 recalls, listed below.
Generation 1 of the GMC Sierra 1500, which began in 2007 and ran to 2013. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 732 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 331 |
| Involving a crash | 12 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
Recalls for this year
- 21V050000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V054000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V267000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 10V643000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 11V007000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Sierra 1500 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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