2023 GMC Acadia
This year drew an ordinary 41 complaints for a GMC Acadia — the model's median is 333. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.3% of them mention complete stop, against 0.1% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This GMC Acadia ran from 2017 to 2023, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 41 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 333 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- complete stop — 7.3% of this year's complaints, against 0.1% across the other years of this generation (36.6×).
- during — 14.6% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (4.9×).
- struck — 7.3% of this year's complaints, against 0.4% across the other years of this generation (18.7×). Owners wrote it as: struck, deer, struck deer, deer traveling.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
with the stop/start feature activated and while attempting to park the vehicle, the accelerator pedal was slightly pressed in order to slowly move the vehicle forward. The vehicle suddenly experienced unintended acceleration and drove forward, over a curb, and…
The rear stationary/fixed sunroof glass spontaneously shattered while i was driving. I heard a loud pop, after i parked i checked the car to see what happened and found a shattered sunroof. There was no impact or known object that struck the glass.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V708000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 23V043000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 23V172000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 23V681000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Acadia was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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