2005 GMC Envoy
This year drew an ordinary 624 complaints for a GMC Envoy — the model's median is 277. What they were about is the unusual part: 26.9% of them mention speedometer, against 6.1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 624 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 277 |
| Involving a crash | 28 |
| Involving a fire | 14 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- speedometer — 26.9% of this year's complaints, against 6.1% across the model's other years (4.4×). Owners wrote it as: speedometer, instrument, cluster, stuck.
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
WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, THE SPEEDOMETER DISPLAYED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS TRAVELING 85 MPH. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL REPAIR SHOP WHERE THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER WAS REPLACED. THE CONTACT CALLED THE [VIN] AND DEALER WHO OFFERED NO ASSISTANCE. THE VEHICLE HAD NO…
THE CONTACT OWNS 2005 GMC ENVOY. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING, THE SPEEDOMETER FAILED TO DISPLAY AN ACTUAL SPEED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A PRIVATE MECHANIC AND THE MECHANIC STATED THAT THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE [VIN] WAS CONT…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 05V035000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 07E014000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 06V417000 AIR BAGS
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Envoy 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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