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2019 GMC SIERRA 1500 — Complaint #1807777

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER BALL JOINT filed April 18, 2022

NHTSA complaint #1807777 (ODI reference 11461128) concerns a 2019 GMC SIERRA 1500 and was filed on April 18, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 17, 2022. The vehicle had 43,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to South Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:control arm:lower ball joint, 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 suspension:front:control arm:lower ball joint 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 2019 GMC SIERRA 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2019 GMC SIERRA 1500
Component
SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARM:LOWER BALL JOINT
State
South Carolina
Mileage
43,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2019 GMC Sierra 1500. The contact stated while driving 65 MPH, the front driver’s side tire detached from the vehicle. The contact stated there was no warning light illuminated. The contact was able to park on the side of the road and noticed that the ball joint had separated from the A-arm. The vehicle was not drivable. The contact towed the vehicle to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed with needing the front driver’s side tire, ball joint, and the upper A-arm to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired but was pending repairs. The manufacturer had not been informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 43,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1807777
ODI Number 11461128
Date Filed April 18, 2022
Failure Date April 17, 2022
VIN 1GTU9DED7KZ

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.