2024 GMC Canyon
Complaints about this year name headlights far more often than the other years of this generation — 63% of them, about 157× the usual rate of 0.4%.
Generation 3 of the GMC Canyon, which began in 2023. 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 | 205 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 39 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 18.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- headlights — 62.9% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the other years of this generation (314.6×).
- flicker — 52.2% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the other years of this generation (261×).
- night — 29.8% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the other years of this generation (7.9×). Owners wrote it as: night, driving night, during night, flash flicker.
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.
Also unusual this year
- flicker — 52% of complaints, 130× usual
- night — 30% of complaints, 74× usual
- other — 28% of complaints, 71× usual
What owners wrote
While driving at night the headlights flicker for some unknown reason. I have seen where many others are having the same issue.
Headlights flicker every few minutes when on. Can be distracting to driver and other cars on the road at night. Seems to be an issue for several people with these new 2024 trucks but GM has no fix yet.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V491000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V673000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 25V856000 AIR BAGS 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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