2022 GMC Terrain
This year drew an ordinary 79 complaints for a GMC Terrain — the model's median is 178. What they were about is the unusual part: 44.3% of them mention fuel, against 7.1% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the GMC Terrain, which began in 2018. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 79 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 178 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 26.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 44.3% of this year's complaints, against 7.1% across the other years of this generation (6.2×).
- module — 38% of this year's complaints, against 5.1% across the other years of this generation (7.5×).
- vin — 26.6% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the other years of this generation (5.5×).
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
My car is a 2022. It had the fuel module and fuel pump replaced prior to the recall and prior to a fix being abailable. Once a fix was availabley car was kept for about 2 weeks to remedy both recalls. Both still come up when i search by vin. And my car is stil…
With no warning signs, vehicle abruptly stalled while driving. I attempted to restart multiple times. Finally restarted and drove another 100ft and stalled again now with a check engine light. Made it to local shop and code P129F was found for fuel pump module…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V724000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V339000 CHILD SEAT Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Terrain 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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