2024 GMC Acadia
This year drew an ordinary 55 complaints for a GMC Acadia — the model's median is 333. What they were about is the unusual part: 36.4% of them mention brakes, against 2.8% across the model's other years.
First year of a new generation. The GMC Acadia was redesigned for 2024. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 55 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 333 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brakes — 36.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (13.2×).
- brake — 36.4% of this year's complaints, against 4.1% across the model's other years (8.9×).
- new — 21.8% of this year's complaints, against 6.4% across the model's other years (3.4×).
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
At low speeds the brakes squeal horrendously. We have taken the vehicle to the dealer multiple times and each time they state that the brakes are fine. A vehicle with this low of miles should not have squealing brakes since new.
My vehicle only has 12,000 miles and it’s a 2024 and the brakes are constantly squeaking. I’ve reported this multiple times at my dealership and they are stating “this is normal and because of the new heavier materials there is not a fix for this.” I’m really…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
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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