2008 GMC Envoy
This year drew an ordinary 77 complaints for a GMC Envoy — the model's median is 602. What they were about is the unusual part: 16.9% of them mention happen, against 5.1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 77 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 602 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- happen — 16.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: happen, makes, start car, activates.
- exhaust — 10.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the model's other years (6.9×). Owners wrote it as: exhaust, manifold, exhaust manifold, cracked.
- november — 10.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (5.4×). Owners wrote it as: november, something wrong, monday, temp.
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
"TAKATA RECALL" WHEN I FIRST START THE CAR AND BEGIN TO ACCELERATE THE TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM ACTIVATES CAUSING LOSE OF POWER - VERY DANGEROUS WHEN PULLING OUT INTO TRAFFIC. I HAVE TO DISENGAGE THE SYSTEM ON THE SHIFT HANDLE TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING. I…
I STARTED MY VEHICLE IN THE AM AND IT MADE A LOUD MUFFLED NOISE. TOOK IT TO THE MECHANIC AND HE SHOWED ME A PICTURE OF A CRACK IN TH EXHAUST MANIFOLD. I LOOKED ONLINE AND SAW RECALLS FOR OTHER YEARS AND MODELS FOR GMC AND CHEVY. I THINK THE 2008 CHEVY ENVOY SH…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
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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