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Model years to avoid

GMC Terrain

What it says about you

Opinion

An Equinox with a firmer jaw. You liked the look and paid the difference knowingly.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

18 model years on record, 3,147 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • fuel 2022, 2024 peak 44.3% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 1 recall 24 complaints
  3. 2025 0 recalls 12 complaints
  4. 2024 1 recall 48 complaints
  5. 2023 2 recalls 37 complaints
  6. 2022 2 recalls 79 complaints
  7. 2021 2 recalls 34 complaints
  8. 2020 2 recalls 189 complaints
  9. 2019 3 recalls 178 complaints
  10. 2018 5 recalls 216 complaints
  11. 2017 1 recall 133 complaints
  12. 2016 2 recalls 151 complaints
  13. 2015 3 recalls 315 complaints
  14. 2014 2 recalls 301 complaints
  15. 2013 3 recalls 368 complaints
  16. 2012 4 recalls 370 complaints
  17. 2011 4 recalls 397 complaints
  18. 2010 3 recalls 295 complaints

What does a GMC Terrain say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.