Vehicle description: extended-cab pickup trucks equipped with high-back bucket seats. The seat recliner to frame attaching bolts can loosen, fatigue, and fracture allowing the seat back to suddenly recline.
1983-1996 · 11 model years
GMC K35 Problems by year
Owners have filed 0 complaints about the GMC K35 across 11 model years, and it has 20 recalls.
- Complaints
- 0
- Recalls
- 20
- Crashes
- 0
- Fires
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Deaths
- 0
K35 complaints by model year
Highlighted: the year with the most complaints for its age. Older vehicles have had more time to collect complaints - the Safety Index grade allows for that.
GMC K35 recalls 20
These tires have bead damage which occured during tire mounting.
The four u-bolts nuts on either side of the rear axle were under-torqued.
The seat recliner to seat frame attaching bolts on these vehicle could loosen, fatigue and fracture, allowing the seat back to suddenly recline.
Due to a thin case casting, an external transmission leak can occur.
Trucks were assembled with the left-hand lower control arm to frame rear nut tightened below the specified torque. Low torque on this nut may allow the attachment bolt to loosed and subsequently fatigue and break. The bolt breakage can cause the left hand...
The seats have been assembled without bolts that connect the upper slave hinge to the seat back frame, or without bolts that connect the seat to the seat adjuster. In either case, the vehicles fail to conform to fnvss no. 207, "Seating systems."
The rear bench seat does not meet the load requirements of fmvss 207, "seating systems," because the manual latch mechanism on the folding full bench rear seat was attached to the back frame lower cross tube with domed head steel rivets instead of the bolts...
The brake pedal push rod retainer is missing, mispositioned or not properly seated.
Loose pivot bolt holding the brake pedal to its support bracket could disengage from the nut.
On c and k models, feed and or return fuel lines can contact the automatic transmission shift linkage cordon shaft. In addition, on k models lines may also contact front propshaft. In either case the fuel lines could be damaged resulting in a fuel leak.
There may be below specified torque on the trailer hitch attaching fasteners, allowing the trailer hitch to move under towing loads.
Questions about the GMC K35
Which GMC K35 years have the fewest complaints?
How many recalls does the GMC K35 have?
NHTSA lists 20 recalls across all GMC K35 model years. Each year's page lists the recalls for that year; check your own vehicle by VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls to see whether the repair has been done.
Source: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints and recalls, checked daily. Complaints are owners' own reports and are not verified. How we use the data