GMC Savana — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 846 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Brakes192 (22.7%)Official recall records for this system: 11, covering model years 1998–2017.
• Body & structure80 (9.5%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2008.
• Tires & wheels74 (8.7%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2003–2016.
• Fuel system58 (6.9%)Official recall records for this system: 9, covering model years 1996–2014.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)56 (6.6%)Official recall records for this system: 7, covering model years 2000–2013.
• Steering56 (6.6%)Official recall records for this system: 13, covering model years 1996–2013.

Other / uncategorized: 16 classifications (1.9%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (662 records, model years 1996–2017) are most frequently classified under: brakes, body & structure and tires & wheels.
• Safety recalls (157 records, model years 1996–2017) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, steering and electrical system.
• Transport Canada recalls (138 records, model years 1996–2017) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, brakes and seat belts.
• Manufacturer communications (22,557 records, model years 1996–2017) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, engine and electrical system.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 232reports included a mileage
• 59,101average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1996 68 records for 1996 68
2. 1997 97 records for 1997 97
3. 1998 101 records for 1998 101
4. 1999 148 records for 1999 148
5. 2000 376 records for 2000 376
6. 2001 394 records for 2001 394
7. 2002 431 records for 2002 431
8. 2003 631 records for 2003 631
9. 2004 620 records for 2004 620
10. 2005 653 records for 2005 653
11. 2006 824 records for 2006 824
12. 2007 937 records for 2007 937
13. 2008 1,116 records for 2008 1,116
14. 2009 1,186 records for 2009 1,186
15. 2010 1,563 records for 2010 1,563
16. 2011 1,710 records for 2011 1,710
17. 2012 1,799 records for 2012 1,799
18. 2013 1,858 records for 2013 1,858
19. 2014 1,700 records for 2014 1,700
20. 2015 1,567 records for 2015 1,567
21. 2016 1,287 records for 2016 1,287
22. 2017 1,173 records for 2017 1,173

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 36mention a crash
• 20mention a fire
• 36mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 157
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 22,557
• Investigations NHTSA 6
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 138
• Owner complaints NHTSA 662

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0300 in 124 records · 1999–2017
• P2463 in 112 records · 2007–2017
• P0442 in 91 records · 2000–2017
• P0420 in 87 records · 2002–2017
• P0087 in 84 records · 2006–2017
• P0191 in 69 records · 2006–2017
• P0088 in 67 records · 2010–2017
• P0430 in 61 records · 2002–2017
• P0521 in 60 records · 2005–2016
• P1516 in 32 records · 2003–2017
• P207F in 28 records · 2010–2016
• P20EE in 28 records · 2010–2016

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.