2025 GMC Sierra 1500
This year drew an ordinary 94 complaints for a GMC Sierra 1500 — the model's median is 426. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.8% of them mention cruise, against 4.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the GMC Sierra 1500, which began in 2019. 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 | 94 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 426 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
What the complaints were about
- cruise — 12.8% of this year's complaints, against 4.3% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: cruise, cruise control, function, occurs.
- video — 7.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (5.6×). Owners wrote it as: video, cameras.
- area — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: area, housing.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Cruise control activates at speeds below 2 mph which frequently happens while turning or parking. The cruise control activates by a toggle on the left spoke of the steering wheel which can be easily bumped while doing low speed maneuvers like parking. When bum…
The backup camera on the new 2025 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4 is not displaying a visible picture at night. During the day time, the picture is clear. At night, you cannot see nearly anything. This is and has been widely reported online. This poses a massive safety th…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V876000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY 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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