2001 GMC W4500

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the service brakes, hydraulic › power assist. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Power Assist1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Power Assist
Filed Aug 25, 2005OR

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

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2006
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20090300Routine
20080400Routine
20072400Routine
20063300Routine
20041100Routine
20031100Routine
2001 — this page1000Routine
20001000Routine
19980100Routine

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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.