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Model years to avoid

GMC Acadia

What it says about you

Opinion

A Traverse in better clothes, bought because the GMC dealer was closer or the deal was better. Both are fine reasons.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

21 model years on record, 7,261 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2017 (shift park), 2014 (bags however), 2008 (transmission). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • shift park 2017, 2018, 2019 peak 59.2% of that year's complaints
  • brake 2024, 2025 peak 52.5% of that year's complaints
  • turn off 2017, 2018, 2019 peak 32.1% of that year's complaints
  • bags however 2014, 2016 peak 37.9% of that year's complaints
  • transmission 2007, 2008 peak 36.9% of that year's complaints
  • new 2024, 2025 peak 27.9% of that year's complaints
  • shifter 2017, 2018 peak 24.4% of that year's complaints
  • liftgate 2009, 2012 peak 15.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 1 recall 6 complaints
  3. 2025 0 recalls 61 complaints
  4. 2024 0 recalls 55 complaints
  5. 2023 4 recalls 41 complaints
  6. 2022 3 recalls 47 complaints
  7. 2021 2 recalls 146 complaints
  8. 2020 6 recalls 97 complaints
  9. 2019 2 recalls 379 complaints
  10. 2018 2 recalls 390 complaints
  11. 2017 shift park 1,340 complaints
  12. 2016 4 recalls 454 complaints
  13. 2015 4 recalls 507 complaints
  14. 2014 bags however 913 complaints
  15. 2013 3 recalls 273 complaints
  16. 2012 5 recalls 302 complaints
  17. 2011 5 recalls 280 complaints
  18. 2010 4 recalls 348 complaints
  19. 2009 7 recalls 333 complaints
  20. 2008 transmission 858 complaints
  21. 2007 5 recalls 431 complaints

What does a GMC Acadia say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.