2000 GMC Sierra 2500 problems
The 2000 GMC Sierra 2500 has 63 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (54%) concerns brakes. Next are body & structure (8%) and engine (6%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 63 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 54% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 4 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 4 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 92,000 miles 51 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 0 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 3 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 4 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 13 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 10 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 9 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 2 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 1 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 6 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 2 |
What the data shows
Of the 51 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 92,000 miles. For brakes specifically, the median reported mileage is about 99,000 miles (29 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 4 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 4 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2000 ranks 25th most-complained-about out of 26 model years of the GMC Sierra 2500 with enough data (18 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Tl*the contact owns a 2000 GMC sierra 2500. While driving between 30-35 MPH on normal road conditions, the contact crashed into another vehicle that failed to stop completely at a stop sign. The air bags failed to deploy during the massive impact. There were no warning indicators illuminated on the instrument panel. The police and ambulance were called to the scene and a police report was filed. The driver and front passenger side occupant sustained minor injuries.
I been having a problem with the exhaust manifold bolts breaking off. I spent a ton of money replacing o2 sensors over the last 4 years. I've just currently found out that the o2 sensors were not bad, it was actually the exhaust header bolts breaking allowing my emission system to malfunction. I've had 3 bolts replaced 2 months ago at a tidy cost of $1000.00. One week ago I was driving down the road and smelled exhaust fumes in my truck cab.
Wet surface. Two similar wrecks in two different chevy pickups. One a 1994 and the other in a 2000 GMC. Trying to stop, standing on the brakes, while both of these vehicles accelerated into the rear of the vehicle in front of me. Following the last incident, I went straight to a large empty parking lot and duplicated the acceleration while standing on brakes.
2000 GMC 2500 sierra brake lines rusting through at frame clip near left front wheel. All brake lines very rusted.
Brake line failure due to corroded brake lines on a 2000 GMC sierra 2500 pick -up truck, luckily it happened pulling out of the drive way and not on the highway, see that there are hundreds of complaints about the same problem, something needs to be done before someone gets killed ! If not so already !