2010 GMC Yukon XL 1500
This year drew an ordinary 175 complaints for a GMC Yukon XL 1500 — the model's median is 154. What they were about is the unusual part: 30.9% of them mention airbag, against 0.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 175 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 154 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- airbag — 30.9% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the model's other years (45.1×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, passenger airbag, side airbag, around airbag.
- cracked — 35.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (18.4×).
- dash — 38.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (10.1×).
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
DASHBOARD IS CRACKED ABOVE INSTRUMENT PANEL. THE CRACK IS 12 INCHES LONG. IT IS ALSO CRACKED COMPLETELY TO AIRBAG ON PASSENGER SIDE. THIS CAUSES VERY LOUD RATTLING WHEN DRIVING. I AM CONCERNED IT AFFECTS THE QUALITY OF THE AIRBAG'S ABILITY TO DEPLOY. I AM CONC…
I OWN A 2010 GMC YUKON DENALI WITH ONLY 80000 AND THE DASH IS ALL CRACKED AND GMC WON'T PAY FOR DAMAGES. THIS IS A HAZARD CAUSE IT'S CRACKED RIGHT ABOVE PASSENGER AIRBAG AND DRIVER STEERING WHEEL.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10E043000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Yukon XL 1500 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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