Open safety recalls, the components owners report failing most often, crash-test results and running costs for the 2014 GMC Savana Passenger 1500 — assembled from NHTSA and EPA records.
Everything on this page applies to the model as a whole. Run its 17-character VIN to decode that exact car — its engine, trim, assembly plant and factory equipment — alongside these records. Free, no account.
Run a VIN →Recalls and complaints are filed against a specific model year, so figures differ from one year to the next even within a single generation. See every GMC Savana Passenger 1500 year.
No EPA fuel-economy match for this model (naming may differ or it predates EPA records).
Rated configuration: 2014 GMC Savana Passenger 1500 VAN AWD
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The parts named most often across 7 owner complaintsfiled with NHTSA for this make, model and year — the closest free answer to “what is likely to go wrong?”
1 fire
Complaints are self-reported and skew toward problems people find alarming, so treat this as where to look, not a defect rate.
FAILURE TO BRAKE AT LOW SPEEDS. BRAKE PEDAL HARD AND INCREASED STOP DISTANCE IN LOW SPEED, OFTEN TIGHT SPOTS.
WHENEVER YOU TURN THE STEERING WHEEL, THERE IS A NOISE THAT COME FROM IT AND IT SOUNDS LIKE A CLUNKING NOISE AS SOMETIMES WILL NOT LET YOU TURN PAST THAT POINT. IT WILL DO IT WHEN IT IS STATIONARY OR DRIVING. IT ALSO SOUNDS LIKE IT IS COMING FROM THE STEERING RACK. *TR
RADIATOR CORROSION AND LEAKING. OTHER VEHICLES OF THE SAME YEAR HAD SAME CORROSION BUT THIS ONE WAS NOT COVERED . PRODUCED IN SAME PLANT AND TIE AND LOCATION. VEHICLE WAS INSPECTED PRIOR TO THIS AND NO NOTIFICATION OF LEAKING REPORTED BY THE DEALER UNTIL WE BROUGHT IT TO THEIR ATTENTION.
AT LOW SPEEDS (PARKING MANEUVERING) BRAKE PEDAL GETS HARD AND BRAKING POWER IS LOST INTERMITTENTLY.
THE TRUCK CAUGHT FIRE IN THE PARKING LOT OF MY WORK
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 GMC SAVANA. WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY FOR MORE THAN THREE HOURS, THE AIR CONDITIONER SYSTEM FAILED TO DRAIN OUT AND CAUSED THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE OF THE VEHICLE TO FILL UP WITH WATER. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS, BUT THE FAILURE WAS UNABLE TO BE DUPLICATED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN.
VEHICLE MOVING ON HARD SURFACE. STEERING TURNED TO LIMIT AND ABRUPTLY, WHEEL IS "WHIPPED" BACK AWAY FROM LIMIT. THE ACTION IS SO SEVERE, IT WHIPPED OUT OF MY HANDS AND I TRACKED TO THE OPPOSING LANE. THIS HAPPENED AGAIN IN A PARKING LOT WHEN I WAS LINING UP IN A PARKING SLOT. GM SERVICE BULLETIN: #PIT5405A RECOMMENDS FIXES. GM NEEDS TO BE PROACTIVE ON THIS OR SOMEONE COULD BECOME INJURED OR WORSE.