2014 GMC Yukon
This year drew an ordinary 61 complaints for a GMC Yukon — the model's median is 186. What they were about is the unusual part: 6.6% of them mention traction control, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This GMC Yukon ran from 2007 to 2014, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 61 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 186 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- traction control — 6.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: traction control, stalled vehicle, vehicle traction, control warning.
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
WHILE OPERATING THE VEHICLE, THE TRACTION CONTROL WARNING INDICATOR ILLUMINATED BEFORE THE VEHICLE SUDDENLY STALLED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE CONTACT'S HOME. THE FAILURE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE DEALER AND [VIN] WERE NOT NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MIL…
driving down road car locks and unlocks, breaks lock up, slows down, radio went off ac starts going high and low took to dealership they said bad negative battery cable was told had a short got vehicle back driving down road ac starts going from high to low st…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 13V342000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 14V614000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V054000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Yukon 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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