2005 GMC Yukon XL
This year drew an ordinary 238 complaints for a GMC Yukon XL — the model's median is 151. What they were about is the unusual part: 21.8% of them mention speedometer, against 3.3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 238 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 151 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 6 |
What the complaints were about
- speedometer — 21.8% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the model's other years (6.6×). Owners wrote it as: speedometer, needle, erratic, stopped working.
- lines — 17.2% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: lines, line, brake lines, rusted.
- gauge — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.8% across the model's other years (8.9×). Owners wrote it as: gauge, gas gauge.
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
THE BRAKE PEDAL WENT TO THE FLOOR BOARD ABNORMALLY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE BRAKE LINES WERE RUSTED AS WELL AS CORRODED [VIN] CAUSING THEM TO FRACTURE. THE BRAKE LINES WERE REPLACED. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED OF THE…
THE 2005 YUKON BRAKE LINES HAVE RUSTED THROUGH, AND WHILE DRIVING OF ALL PLACES TO THE INSPECTION STATION IN UPSTATE NY. WHILE IN THE SHOP FOR REPAIR, IT WAS ADVISED THAT THE ALUMINUM ANTILOCK DISTRIBUTION BOX HAS MAJOR CORROSION AS WELL. IT NEEDS TO BE REPLAC…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 05V103000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 05V055000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 06V289000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 04V376000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
- 07E106000 WHEELS Fixed free of charge.
- 05V043000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Yukon XL 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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