2024 GMC Sierra 1500

Typical pattern

10.4% of complaints about the 2024 GMC Sierra 1500 came in the first year, which is unremarkable for a 2024 vehicle — around the middle of the 178 model-years on record. The median complaint arrives at 1.8 yr in service. The most-reported system is engine (180 complaints), typically at 2.1 yr or about 25,000 miles.

Complaints: 490
Median age at failure: 1.8 yr
Median mileage: 20,000 n=61
Crash / fire / tow: 8.2% of reports
Safety recalls: 1

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

System

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Engine

180 reports · 25,000 mi

2.1 yr

6.1%

Power train

68 reports · 24,000 mi

1.8 yr

5.9%

Electrical system

42 reports · 28,140 mi

1.5 yr

4.8%

Other

30 reports

1.3 yr

6.7%

Engine cooling

30 reports · 24,000 mi

1.8 yr

16.7%

Structure

24 reports · 35,000 mi

2.3 yr

8.3%

Fuel / propulsion

19 reports

2.2 yr

Collision avoidance

16 reports · 500 mi

1.7 yr

25%

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

25V274000 2025-04-24

Engine and engine cooling:engine:hard parts internal/mechanical

General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2021-2024 Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Suburban, and Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles equipped with a 6.2L V8 gas engine. The connecting rod and/or crankshaft engine components may have manufacturing defects that can lead to engine damage and engine failure.

Engine failure increases the risk of a crash.

In owners’ own words

Other mileage not reported 1 mo in service

The driver's side floor mat will not stay in place because the device that is supposed to hold it in place is broken. The floor mat is now able to move forward and interfere with the function of the brake and/or accelerator. Both the dealership (Castle Rock GMC, Colorado) and GMC Customer Care (Case #: 91-11325687695) have ignored all requests to address this and other issues. I have also written letters to GMC Corporate and the Castle Rock GMC General Manager, both of which were also ignored.

Other mileage not reported 6 mo in service

The infotainment systems audio while driving decreases so much that you have to increase the volume to hear it and then will randomly increase to the correct volume level without warning and then decrease again.

Other mileage not reported 8 mo in service crash / fire / tow

Multi-function tailgate lowers without warning. Issue has occurred four times over the past week. The first issue resulted in cosmetic damage to the upper part of the gate.

Structure mileage not reported 5 mo in service

UNKOWN. It came like that. I took the truck to the dealership to be inspected and I was told that it was a manufacturing problem.

Other Sierra 1500 model years

How to read this

This is what owners reported, not a reliability rating. People file with NHTSA about alarming failures, not routine ones, and complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold.
Failure ages come from the incident date on each complaint, populated on about 83% of records. Mileage is shown where reported — NHTSA’s 2021 system change cut mileage capture to roughly 15%, so it thins out sharply after MY2020.
Every rank compares this vehicle only against others of the same model year. A 2025 car has not had time to accumulate five-year failures, so comparing early-failure share across years is meaningless.
Fourteen make-months distorted by media storms and mass recalls — Toyota in February 2010 ran 11× normal volume across 33 models — are excluded.
Recalls are manufacturer actions and authoritative; complaints are not. A recall listed here may already have been performed on any individual car. Check a specific VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.