1993 GMC Vandura Series

Routine

Owners filed 6 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the service brakes, hydraulic › antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip4
000
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation Components1
000
Seat Belts › Front › Webbing1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip
Filed Mar 1, 2000PA

ON-GOING / INTERMITTENT PROBLEM WITH BRAKES PULSATING WHEN APPLYING BRAKE PEDAL, AND EXCESSIVE WEAR OF BRAKE PADS. PROBLEM APPEARED WITHIN THE FIRST 7,000 MILES OF WEAR. DEALER NOTIFIED, AND SOME REPAIRS WERE MADE. BUT, PRBLEM IS STILL REOCCURRING. *AK

Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip
Filed Sep 29, 1999OK

ABS BRAKING SYSTEM MALFUNCTIONED, CAUSING EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE WHICH MAY RESULT IN A CRASH. DEALER CANNOT DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. *AK

Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip
Filed Jan 26, 1998CO

WHEN THE BRAKES ARE APPLIED IN A PANIC STOP , THE PEDAL BECOMES HARD, RESULTING IN EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. THE DEALER AND THE MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED.*AK

Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip
Filed Oct 21, 1997IN

ANTI LOCK BRAKE VALVE FAILED.

Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation Components
Filed Oct 24, 1995MO

VEHICLE VIBRATES WHILE BRAKING. PLEASE GIVE MORE DETAILS. TT

Seat Belts › Front › Webbing
Filed Sep 7, 1995CO

THE DRIVERS SIDE SEATBELT CUTS THE OCCUPANT ACROSS THE NECK PEOPLE BETWEEN 5'3 AND 5'8 ARE HAVING PROBLEMS. PLEASE DESCRIBE. TT

6 of 6 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19973010Routine
19961000Routine
19953000Routine
19943000Routine
1993 — this page6000Routine
19924000Routine
19913000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.