2017 GMC SIERRA 1500 — Complaint #1723937
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NHTSA Complaint about SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:ANTILOCK:WHEEL SPEED SENSOR filed February 1, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1723937 (ODI reference 11391005) concerns a 2017 GMC SIERRA 1500 and was filed on February 1, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 1, 2020. The vehicle had 19,906 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as service brakes, air:antilock:wheel speed sensor, 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 service brakes, air:antilock:wheel speed sensor 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 2017 GMC SIERRA 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2017 GMC SIERRA 1500. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE ACCELERATING AT 85 MPH, THE VEHICLE INDEPENDENTLY DECELERATED TO 70 MPH WITHOUT WARNING. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE THROTTLE NO LONGER OPERATED AS NEEDED. THE CONTACT HAD TAKEN THE VEHICLE TO FAULKNER BUICK GMC TREVOSE (4427 E STREET RD, FEASTERVILLE-TREVOSE, PA 19053) ON TWO OCCASIONS HOWEVER, THE MECHANICS WERE UNABLE TO DIAGNOSE THE FAILURE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS ALSO NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT THEY HAD NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A FAILURE. THE CONTACT THEN SPOKE TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO INFORMED HIM THAT THE DEFECT MAY BE LINKED TO A SPEED SENSOR AND A COMPUTER MALFUNCTION. THE CONTACT THEN TOOK THE VEHICLE TO ANOTHER INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO REPROGRAMMED THE COMPUTER SOFTWARE. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 19,906.*DT*JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1723937 |
| ODI Number | 11391005 |
| Date Filed | February 1, 2021 |
| Failure Date | October 1, 2020 |
| VIN | 3GTU2PEJ3HG |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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