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1989 GMC K1500 Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Aug 27, 1998
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Mar 13, 1996

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 1989 GMC K1500. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

Showing 1–2 of 2

Brakes
Filed Aug 27, 1998

CONSUMER HAS BEEN EXPERIENCING CONTINUOUS PROBLEMS WITH VEHICLE'S INSUFFICIENT PERFORMANCE OF ABS BRAKE SYSTEM. WHEN APPLYING BRAKES, PEDAL WOULD GO DOWN TO THE FLOOR, AND THERE WOULD BE A DELAY IN STOPPING. VEHICLE WOULD KEEP ON GOING. ALSO WHEN VEHICLE IS LOADED DOWN WITH 500 OR MORE POUNDS, THE VEHICLE BRAKES WOULD FAIL TO WORK PROPERLY. VEHICLE HAS BEEN INSPECTED BY DEALER ON NUMEROUS TIMES, AND WAS TOLD THAT NOTHING COULD BE FOUND. *AK

NHTSA ID
827290
Incident
Aug 23, 1998
Electrical
Filed Mar 13, 1996

ENGINE; WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE STALLS/HESITATES/STUMBLES. *AK

NHTSA ID
980674
Incident
Nov 1, 1995

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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