1999 GMC SIERRA 1500 — Complaint #953014
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY:MOUNTING filed December 10, 2012
NHTSA complaint #953014 (ODI reference 10487827) concerns a 1999 GMC SIERRA 1500 and was filed on December 10, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 6, 2012. The vehicle had 101,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kentucky based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, gasoline:storage:tank assembly:mounting, 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 fuel system, gasoline:storage:tank assembly:mounting 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 1999 GMC SIERRA 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 1999 GMC SIERRA 1500. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 35 MPH, HE HEARD AN ABNORMAL NOISE IN THE DRIVE SHAFT. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC FOR DIAGNOSIS WHERE THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THAT THE FUEL TANK STRAPS WERE FRACTURED. BOTH STRAPS WERE REPLACED. THE DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOTIFIED BUT OFFERED NO ASSISTANCE. THE FAILURE AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 101,000. UPDATED 1/17/13 *CN THE CONSUMER STATED THE REAR FUEL STRAP HAD BROKEN AND WAS RUBBING AGAINST THE DRIVE SHAFT. THE FRONT STRAP WAS RUSTED, BUT NOT BROKEN. BOTH WERE REPLACED AT HIS EXPENSE. UPDATED 01/24/13
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 953014 |
| ODI Number | 10487827 |
| Date Filed | December 10, 2012 |
| Failure Date | December 6, 2012 |
| VIN | 1GTEK19T0XZ |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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