2018 GMC Yukon
This year drew an ordinary 69 complaints for a GMC Yukon — the model's median is 186. What they were about is the unusual part: 20.3% of them mention message, against 5.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the GMC Yukon, which began in 2015 and ran to 2020. 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 | 69 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 186 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- message — 20.3% of this year's complaints, against 5.8% across the other years of this generation (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: message, displayed, keeps, started vehicle.
- truck — 18.8% of this year's complaints, against 6.7% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: truck, completed, results, camshaft.
- insurance — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (5.4×). Owners wrote it as: insurance, claim.
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
Service trailer break error message keeps popping up blocking the speedometer, dinging, etc. no trailer has been attached to vehicle.
Keeps showing a service trailer brake system, it does it once in a while but when it does it keeps showing the message after pressing dismiss, I was researching online and apparently there is a lot of people dealing with this same issue and looks like it is a…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V603000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 19V645000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 19V761000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC 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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