2023 GMC Canyon
This year drew an ordinary 56 complaints for a GMC Canyon — the model's median is 39. What they were about is the unusual part: 17.9% of them mention stated driving, against 2.9% across the model's other years.
First year of a new generation. The GMC Canyon was redesigned for 2023. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 56 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 39 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 18.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stated driving — 17.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (6.1×).
- brakes — 17.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (4.6×).
- behind — 17.9% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: behind, applied, customer service, alert system.
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
Overly sensitive automatic emergency braking/pedestrian warning. System would alert with lights and audible warning for no reason driving at ~55mph. While turning around in a Michigan left turn, system went off and brakes applied abruptly until I was at comple…
notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 24V133000 (Electrical System, Forward Collision Avoidance). The contact stated that while driving at approximately 45 MPH, the collision sensor lights flashed, and the brakes were applied inadvertently. The vehicle was no…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V133000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 24V237000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V703000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Canyon 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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