2014 GMC SIERRA 1500 — Complaint #1620519
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:12V/24V/48V BATTERY:CABLES filed November 13, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1620519 (ODI reference 11279839) concerns a 2014 GMC SIERRA 1500 and was filed on November 13, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 1, 2019. The vehicle had 105,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:12v/24v/48v battery:cables, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same GMC SIERRA 1500 cohort independently describe similar electrical system:12v/24v/48v battery:cables failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2014 GMC SIERRA 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 GMC SIERRA 1500. WHILE THE CONTACT'S WIFE WAS MAKING A LEFT TURN AT A LOW RATE OF SPEED, THE VEHICLE SHUT OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTERSECTION WITHOUT WARNING. AFTER MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS TO RESTART THE VEHICLE, THE CONTACT HAD TO DISCONNECT THE BATTERY GROUND CABLE AND RECONNECT IT FOR THE VEHICLE TO RESTART. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO DON MEALEY CHEVROLET (17185 FL-50, CLERMONT, FL 34711) WHERE THEY WERE ABLE TO DUPLICATE THE FAILURE AND RECOMMENDED THAT THE BATTERY GROUND CABLE BE REPLACED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS OUT OF WARRANTY. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 105,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1620519 |
| ODI Number | 11279839 |
| Date Filed | November 13, 2019 |
| Failure Date | June 1, 2019 |
| VIN | 3GTU2VEC1EG |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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