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Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure on the 2025 GMC Sierra 1500

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 2
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 2,000 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $700–$2,600
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 26th

When steering rack, gear or tie rod failure gets reported

There are 2 reports of steering rack, gear or tie rod failure on the 2025 GMC Sierra 1500. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 26th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $700–$2,600 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 8 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2008, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2002 at 55,000 miles.

By volume the 2014 carries the most reports, with 18; the 2025 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1997 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 121k
  2. 1999 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 83k
  3. 2001 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 147k
  4. 2002 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 57k
  5. 2003 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 24k
  6. 2004 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 31k
  7. 2005 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 29k
  8. 2006 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 12k
  9. 2007 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 18k
  10. 2008 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 12k
  11. 2012 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 110k
  12. 2013 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 127k
  13. 2014 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 51k
  14. 2015 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 39k
  15. 2016 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 45k
  16. 2017 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  17. 2018 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 36k
  18. 2019 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  19. 2021 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  20. 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure 96k
  21. 2023 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  22. 2024 GMC Sierra 1500 steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
    no odometer readings given
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  23. 2025 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2025 GMC Sierra 1500

Other engine problem

17 reports median 80k

Other powertrain problem

10 reports median 59k

Other driver assistance problem

10 reports median 16k

Other electrical problem

9 reports median 16k

Cruise control failure

6 reports median 8k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 2 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 2 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed