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2005 GMC SIERRA — Complaint #593201

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:MULTIPLE AXLE:TORQUE ARM filed August 19, 2006

NHTSA complaint #593201 (ODI reference 10166029) concerns a 2005 GMC SIERRA and was filed on August 19, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 29, 2005. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:multiple axle:torque arm, 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 cohort independently describe similar suspension:multiple axle:torque arm 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 2005 GMC SIERRA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2005 GMC SIERRA
Component
SUSPENSION:MULTIPLE AXLE:TORQUE ARM
State
Florida

Complaint Description

NOISE STARTED FROM THE REAR END ONE MONTH AFTER PURCHASE. THERE IS A LOUD NOISE THAT COMES FROM DRIVESHAFT OR REAR END WHEN THE TRUCK SHIFTS DOWN OR UP IN LOW GEARS AND IS TWICE AS BAD AFTER TURNING . THE DEALER HAS CHECKED THE TRUCK 3 TIMES AND TOLD THEY COULD PACE GREASE IN SOMETHING IN THE REAR, BUT IT WOULD STOP THE NOISE A SHORT TIME AND THERE IS NOTHING THEY COULD DO AS IT WAS FACTORY DEFECT. IT IS NOW ONE YEAR OLD AND IS GETTING WORSE EVERY WEEK. THE TRUCK HAS ONLY 10,300 MILES ON IT. *NM

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 593201
ODI Number 10166029
Date Filed August 19, 2006
Failure Date June 29, 2005
VIN 1GTEK19B55E

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