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Model years to avoid

GMC Canyon

What it says about you

Opinion

A Colorado with a nicer grille and a higher price, and you decided the grille was worth it.

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

20 model years on record, 1,411 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2024 (headlights), 2016 (power steering), 2015 (power steering), 2005 (abs). 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.

  • steering 2015, 2016 peak 70.8% of that year's complaints
  • turn 2015, 2016 peak 25.4% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 2 recalls 6 complaints
  2. 2025 2 recalls 8 complaints
  3. 2024 headlights 205 complaints
  4. 2023 3 recalls 56 complaints
  5. 2022 1 recall 24 complaints
  6. 2021 2 recalls 11 complaints
  7. 2020 0 recalls 14 complaints
  8. 2019 0 recalls 16 complaints
  9. 2018 1 recall 52 complaints
  10. 2017 1 recall 65 complaints
  11. 2016 power steering 267 complaints
  12. 2015 power steering 319 complaints
  13. 2012 2 recalls 29 complaints
  14. 2011 5 recalls 23 complaints
  15. 2010 2 recalls 39 complaints
  16. 2009 3 recalls 29 complaints
  17. 2008 2 recalls 42 complaints
  18. 2007 3 recalls 45 complaints
  19. 2006 4 recalls 48 complaints
  20. 2005 abs 113 complaints

What does a GMC Canyon 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.