2015 GMC Sierra 1500 Exterior Lighting Problems
- 76
- Owner complaint records in our dataset
Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.
Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.
Among these 76 stored complaint records:
- 1 indicate a crash
- 0 indicate injury
- 0 indicate fire
What owners report
- high beam · 11 records
- high beams · 11 records
- drive night · 11 records
- very poor · 7 records
- headlights very · 6 records
- head lights · 6 records
Mileage in stored records
| Band | Records |
|---|---|
| 1–30k mi | 48 |
| 30–60k mi | 8 |
| 100–150k mi | 1 |
| 60–100k mi | 1 |
Complaint records
Owner-submitted complaint content, presented as stored.
Exterior Lighting
The headlights on the vehicle fail to provide an adequate lateral view of the highway at night making it nearly impossible to see anything that might be moving in to the driver's path from the left or night sides. Lateral view of the highway is not improved when changing from low beam to high beam or vice versa. The only way to cast any lateral light to the sides of the highway is to utilize the fog lamps which can…
ODI 10915090
Exterior Lighting
Head lights are so bad it's dangerous driving at night with the low beams. The internal head light shutter creates a distinct line with total darkness above. While taking a turn you have no light to the side at all! You easily out drive the head lights with only the low beam. Been in the dealer several times. This is a design flaw. No good after market fix!
ODI 11005202
Exterior Lighting · Fuel/Propulsion System · Power Train
Driving my new 2015 gmc $52,000 gmc sierra, i noticed a distinct slipping/hesitation/general roughness when accelerating from a dead stop. The truck seemed to either have a transmission or engine problem. Took it back to dealership for them to check, and they indicated that this was "normal" and it was just the "cylinder deactivation" feature performing as designed. I explained to them that cylinder deactivation…
ODI 10763365
Electrical System · Exterior Lighting · Power Train
Headlights are very poor (when wet road or in town) cannot tell they burning...i have 20/20 vision......on slow down does not down shift....cannot accelerate....the starter hangs up on start as if does not fire or no fuel pump
ODI 10788736
Exterior Lighting
I have driven many vehicles in my lifetime and these are the worst headlights i have experienced. A very short cutoff and worst of all, no side illumination. I am almost afraid to drive it at night and god help you if it is night and raining.
ODI 10872920
Exterior Lighting
Headlights are terrible at night. Very unsafe on dark roads.
ODI 11057814
Exterior Lighting
The head lights are inadequate for night driving. Both low and high beams do not light up enough area in front of the vehicle nearly as good as previous model years. The projector style lights are too focused and do not give enough light to the sides to see adequately down the road. Gm is obviously aware of the issue and performed a bcm update to my vehicle to make the lights brighter but that fix still doesn't…
ODI 10825665
Exterior Lighting · Visibility/Wiper
The headlights on my 2015 gmc sierra slt are by far the worst headlights i have ever experienced in the many vehicles that i have driven over the last 30 years. How they passed whatever safety standards there are set in place is beyond me. They do not provide a wide enough beam to see around turns or wildlife that may be on the side of the roadway nor do they light up enough of the road in distance to see anything…
ODI 10906052
Exterior Lighting
I leased a 2015 gmc pickup and after driving it at night found that the head lights are very poor and they provide very little visibility on low beam. I took it to the dealership and the answer is to change a bulbs i was told at the dealership that i would most likely not even notice a difference. They are correct the lights are still at a point that it is dangerous to drive the truck at night. There is a service…
ODI 10759981
Exterior Lighting
Headlights do not give off enough light. They don't light the road far enough ahead and are bad off to the sides. It's hard to see objects in the road and hard to see streets you are turning on. I have almost hit deer and have missed turns on rural roads.
ODI 10892435
Exterior Lighting
My 2015 gmc sierra has dangerous headlights, they do not beam more than 30 feet ahead and they are very dim.
ODI 10870752
Exterior Lighting
The headlights on this truck are so poor, we hate driving it at night! I have taken it to the dealership, and they did an "upgrade" of different bulbs and changed the voltage. This was of little help. Now, one of the upgraded bulbs has already gone out of my less than one year old truck.
ODI 10853497
Exterior Lighting
I purchased this vehicle in june of 2015. The headlights in this vehicle are absolutely terrible and extremely unsafe. Night time driving is very difficult and unnerving because the headlight performance is so poor. If driving at night and it starts raining, forget it. I have taken the vehicle to the dealer a half dozen times and they performed 1tsb which made almost no noticeable difference.
ODI 10908582
Electrical System · Exterior Lighting · Visibility/Wiper
I recently purchased a 2015 gmc sierra k1500 slt. I selected the slt for the projector headlights which are not offered on the lower trims for improved lighting. However, the headlights have extremely poor illumination (cannot see off to the side of the road, very dim, poor projection in front) in low or high beam. The headlights are the worst on any vehicle that i have owned over the past 35 years. I almost hit a…
ODI 10725204
Exterior Lighting
Headlights on this vehicle are unacceptable you cannot see anything past 100 feet at 35 mph on a dark street. This is a known problem with the sierra.
ODI 10871178
Exterior Lighting
My 2015 gmc sierra's headlights provide horrible visibility at night, the oem projector style headlights installed in this truck are dim, weak and unsafe. I brought my sierra back to the dealership and they applied tsb #pit5374 and upgraded the headlights with the volsa hir bulbs. This upgrade provided a nominal increase in brightness, but the headlights are still dim and unsafe for use while driving on dark roads…
ODI 10825543
Exterior Lighting · Visibility/Wiper
Headlights are totally inadequate for night driving. Add a bit of rain and it is really scary. *tr
ODI 10939669
Exterior Lighting
I have a 2015 gmc sierra pickup truck, purchased new in february 2015. As soon as i drove the vehicle at night, i noticed that the headlights were very dim on both low beam and high beam. After researching the problem on the internet, i found a gm technical service bulletin (#pit5374) , which instructs the tech to replace both headlight bulbs, and to increase voltage to the headlights via the body control module. I…
ODI 10915120
Exterior Lighting
At highway speeds the vehicle low beam headlights do not provide sufficient illumination to operate in a safe manner. This lack of lighting results in an avoidably unsafe practice of overdriving the headlights. The headlights should illuminate far enough in front so that is not possible to overdrive your lights at normal highway speeds. *tr
ODI 10683564
Exterior Lighting
Operated truck for the first time in a rural area at night yesterday. Low beams provide inadequate light brightness and reach. No appropriate lateral lighting. Oncoming traffic "washed out" my lighting. Can not exceed 30mph without jeopardizing safety. These headlamps are dangerous on low beam. High beams were sufficient. The lights are a hazard to the traveling public at large. *tr
ODI 10681638
Exterior Lighting
The headlights on these trucks are dim to the point of being dangerous. I've had the dealer update performed, and have even tried aftermarket bulbs, to no avail. I am going to have to trade it in i'm afraid as i do not feel safe driving it after dark. Gm really dropped the ball on this design, and have left thousands of owners "in the dark".
ODI 10885101
Exterior Lighting
Can't drive at night very poor visibility is so danger driving over freeway at night the rod disappear because the low bean can't illumine the rod now all the time i have to drive with hig bean but still not enough light and illumination to be focus on the rod is vey danger driving this truck with this truck factory problem
ODI 10958679
Electrical System · Exterior Lighting · Visibility/Wiper
During night operation with the instrument cluster adjusted to proper brightness the center console lights and most notably, the intellilink screen are dangerously bright. The intellilink screen does not have an independent brightness control from the dimmer. When set to off in an attempt to mitigate the problem, the intellilink screen reactivates with subsystem adjustment, e.g. Temperature adjustment, absolutely…
ODI 10679213
Exterior Lighting
Tl*the contact owns a 2015 gmc sierra 1500. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the headlights failed to activate. As a result, the contact's visibility was diminished. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The technician stated that the headlights were functioning as designed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 420.
ODI 10680592
Exterior Lighting
Driving home from latrobe in the rain i could not see with the lights . The lights have blind spots in them and i have had them changed once already. The service department said they were having some problems with the lights in these vehicles. This is a real safety hazard because of the blind spots when driving. This is occurring not only in the rain because the night before nice clear night the same shading coming…
ODI 10714020
Catalog parts for this system
Catalog year/make/model rows for 2015 GMC Sierra 1500.
Catalog fitment does not by itself prove OEM-equivalent compatibility.