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GMC C7500

Every GMC C7500 model year on file, 1997 to 2009. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years30 involved a crash, fire, injury or death
Model years131997 to 2009
Recall campaigns6Distinct campaigns listing it
Service bulletins1,075Summed across model years
By model year

The 1999 model year drew the most complaints, 1, 33% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

00.250.50.75119971999120012003200520072009
Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.
Components

Fuel system leads the GMC C7500 complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Fuel system
1
Brakes
1
Electrical system
1
Engine and cooling
1
Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.
Model years

The record for each GMC C7500 model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

GMC C7500 by model year
YearBodyComplaintsSeverity indexPeer indexRecallsInvestigationsBulletins
2009Not decoded0NoneNone00161
2008Not decoded0NoneNone00148
2007Not decoded0NoneNone00137
2006Not decoded0NoneNone00116
2005Not decoded0NoneNone00100
2004Truck10.01000076
2003Not decoded10.01000070
2002Not decoded0NoneNone1069
2001Not decoded0NoneNone2069
2000Not decoded0NoneNone3069
1999Other10.0504027
1998Not decoded0NoneNone2019
1997Not decoded0NoneNone0014
Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.
Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the GMC C7500

  • 02V-287 Nov 4, 2002
    Certain medium duty c-series and b7 school bus chassis equipped with a 7.4 liter gas engine and an impco lpg conversion kit
    Engine and cooling · 2,011 vehicles
  • 02V-183 Jul 11, 2002
    On certain medium duty trucks equipped with 8.1 l engines and left hand or dual fuel tanks, some of these vehicles have a condition where the fuel…
    Fuel system · 222 vehicles
  • 00V-232-008 Sep 7, 2000
    Vehicle description: school buses, medium duty trucks and tractors built with bendix air abs with an ec-17 1030r electronic control unit (ecu),…
    Brakes · 30k vehicles
  • 00V-236 Aug 23, 2000
    Vehicle description: medium duty trucks
    Powertrain · 13k vehicles
  • 99V-320 Nov 15, 1999
    Vehicle description: medium duty conventional cab trucks and school bus chassis equipped with an automatic transmission, have transmission shift…
    Powertrain · 391 vehicles
  • 98V-073 Apr 8, 1998
    Vehicle description: medium duty trucks equipped with air brakes and anti-lock brake systems
    Electrical system · 1,590 vehicles
Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.