2015 GMC Yukon XL 1500
Complaints about this year name brake far more often than the model's other years — 43% of them, about 23× the usual rate of 1.8%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,816 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 154 |
| Involving a crash | 30 |
| Involving a fire | 14 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
What the complaints were about
- tail — 26.7% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (133.5×). Owners wrote it as: tail, tail light, tail lights, rear tail.
- brake lights — 25.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.3% across the model's other years (98.7×). Owners wrote it as: brake lights, rear brake, lights work, led brake.
- led — 20% of this year's complaints, against 0.5% across the model's other years (39.4×). Owners wrote it as: led, led lights, bulbs, search.
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
- tail — 27% of complaints, 67× usual
- lights — 33% of complaints, 26× usual
- working — 23% of complaints, 35× usual
What owners wrote
TAIL LIGHTS WORK INTERMITTENTLY SEEMS TO BE A COMMON PROBLEM WITH NEW YUKONS. CUTS IN AND OUT NONE WORKING LEDS BRAKE LIGHTS.
2015 DENALI WITH 30K MILES (STILL UNDER MANUFACT WARRANTY) BRAKE LIGHTS QUIT WORKING. DEALERSHIP STATED TAIL LIGHT ASSEMBLIES NEEDED TO BE REPLACED.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Yukon XL 1500 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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