GMC C Series(medium) Recalls & Complaints by Model Year

NHTSA lists 3 safety recalls and 0 owner complaints across 3 model years of the GMC C Series(medium) (1999–2001).

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• 1999
• 2000
• 2001

All GMC C Series(medium) recalls (3)

Every NHTSA safety campaign that lists a GMC C Series(medium), most recent first, with the model years each one covers.

1. Tie rod assembly (steering)

   NHTSA 01V044009 Reported April 17, 2001 6,386 vehicles potentially affected GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

   Vehicle description: heavy duty trucks and school bus chassis equipped with tie rod assemblies containing 24-dl model ball sockets and manufactured by trw. Certain of the tie rod ball-socket bearings have a below-specification case depth and/or hardness, which can lead to premature wear of the socket.

   Remedy: Dealers will replace the defective ball sockets and/or drag links. Owner notification began april 24, 2001. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the…

   Model years: 1999, 2000

2. Tie rod assembly (steering)

   NHTSA 01V140001 Reported April 10, 2001 6,386 vehicles potentially affected GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

   Vehicle description: medium duty trucks equipped with axle assemblies which may have been manufactured with trw model 20edl ball sockets. The tie rod ball-socket bearings have a below specification case depth and/or hardness which can lead to premature wear out of the socket in some applications.

   Remedy: Dealers will replace the ball socket assemblies. Owner notification began april 24, 2001. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within…

   Model years: 1999, 2000

3. Fuel system, other

   NHTSA 01V080000 Reported March 9, 2001 187 vehicles potentially affected GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

   Vehicle description: medium duty c series vehicles equipped with an impco liquefied petroleum gas (lpg) conversion kit. Some of these vehicles exhibit a condition in which the engine could backfire and fracture the plastic inlet elbow within the engine compartment.

   Remedy: Dealers will install a temporary inlet elbow that is reinforced with a fiberglass wrap. The installation of this temporary elbow will eliminate the safety condition. For the permanent repair, dealers will install…

   Model years: 2001

Other GMC models

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• Sierra3,937 complaints
• Terrain3,124 complaints
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• Envoy2,459 complaints
• Yukon XL2,417 complaints

Source: NHTSA recall and complaint databases and EPA fuel economy data, October 2026. Complaint counts are owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects. Recall counts are safety campaigns that list this model year; whether a particular car was already repaired depends on its VIN. How this data is compiled.