2005 GMC Sierra problems
NHTSA has received 152 complaints about the 2005 GMC Sierra, and 24% of them involve brakes. Next are electrical system (15%) and engine (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 152 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 24% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 3 and 2
- Injuries and deaths
- 5 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 55,000 miles 135 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 | 38 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 16 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 18 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 29 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 5 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 15 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 3 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 6 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 4 |
What the data shows
Of the 135 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 55,000 miles. For brakes specifically, the median reported mileage is about 67,000 miles (34 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 3 complaints mention a crash; 2 complaints mention a fire; 5 injuries reported. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 81% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2005 ranks 12th most-complained-about out of 26 model years of the GMC Sierra with enough data (84 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 9 safety recall campaigns.
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.
Dt: the contact was driving on the highway when another vehicle ran his vehicle off the road, resulting in an accident. The contact's vehicle went over an embankment . Upon impact, the air bags did not deploy. The contact sustained injuries. Updated 11/29/05.
The consumer found the direction in the owners manual on how to change the tire vague . While changing a flat tire using the jack which came as standard equipment on the vehicle, the jack slipped off the bracket and fell sideways. The consumer and his brother was injured in the process. The consumer believed the jack needed to be replaced with a larger based hydraulic jack.
The blower motor would work and then not work and when it worked for a long period of time, smoke would come out from under the passenger dashboard. I removed the cardboard cover and saw smoke from the connection to the blower loter and the connection was hot to the touch so I pulled it off from the blower.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 GMC sierra. The contact stated that the check engine light illuminated. The dealer stated that the failure was within the evaporation system and that the evaporation vent and filter needed to be changed. The failure mileage was approximately 110,000 and the current mileage was approximately 120,000.