2007 GMC Envoy
This year drew an ordinary 277 complaints for a GMC Envoy — the model's median is 602. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.4% of them mention vin included, against 1.1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 277 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 602 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 19 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- vin included — 9.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.1% across the model's other years (8.4×). Owners wrote it as: vin included, inoperable, recurred numerous.
- recurred — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: recurred, failure recurred, 360 driving, times vehicle.
- intermittently — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (2.5×).
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
WHILE DRIVING AT 15 MPH, THE LOW BEAM HEAD LAMPS AND DAY TIME RUNNING LAMPS ILLUMINATED INTERMITTENTLY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER. HOWEVER, THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE FAILURE RECURRED ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED OF…
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 10 MPH, THE HEAD LAMPS FAILED TO ILLUMINATE. THE FAILURE RECURRED NUMEROUS TIMES. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE HEAD LAMP SWITCH NEEDED TO BE REPAIRED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED, BUT…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V599000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 15V519000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 14V404000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 12V406000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 13V248000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Envoy 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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