2008 GMC Yukon XL
This year drew an ordinary 411 complaints for a GMC Yukon XL — the model's median is 151. What they were about is the unusual part: 30.2% of them mention takata, against 6.4% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 411 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 151 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 4 |
What the complaints were about
- takata — 30.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.4% across the model's other years (4.7×). Owners wrote it as: takata, takata recall, amount time, tool.
- airbag — 29.7% of this year's complaints, against 8.1% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, cracks, crack, instrument.
- bags — 19.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (7.7×). Owners wrote it as: bags, air bags, failure vin, contacted confirmed.
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. THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 GMC YUKON. THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 16V381000 (AIR BAGS). THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE [VIN] EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR THE RECALL REPAIR. COGIN BUICK GMC (7245 BLANDING BLV…
A RECALL NOTICE FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 16V383000 (AIR BAGS). THE CONTACT CALLED VAN BUICK GMC (8585 E FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BLVD, SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85260, (480) 428-4465) AND WAS INFORMED THAT THE PARTS WERE PENDING AND UNAVAILABLE. THE CONTACT HAD NOT SPOKEN WI…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V050000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V052000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 08V441000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 10V240000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Yukon XL 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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