2007 GMC Yukon XL
Complaints about this year name takata recall far more often than the model's other years — 21% of them, about 53× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 777 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 151 |
| Involving a crash | 28 |
| Involving a fire | 9 |
| Recalls | 4 |
What the complaints were about
- takata — 29.7% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the model's other years (6.1×). Owners wrote it as: takata, takata recall, tool, confirms.
- airbag — 24.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the model's other years (7.8×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, cracks, above, pieces.
- dash — 25.6% of this year's complaints, against 8.1% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: dash, cracked, crack, plastic.
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
- air bags — 19% of complaints, 48× usual
- airbag — 17% of complaints, 25× usual
- cracked — 13% of complaints, 33× usual
What owners wrote
TAKATA RECALL AND DASHBOARD CRACKED IN MANY PLACES AND STILL DEVELOPING NEW CRACKS. CAN NOT FIND A DASHBOARD [VIN] AT ALL IN THE COLOR NEEDED. WE RECEIVED A NOTICE DATED JULY 2016 FOR AIRBAG RECALL BUT NOT TO BRING IT IN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. STILL WAITING. AL…
TAKATA RECALL... I CALLED THE DEALER AND THEY TOLD ME THE PARTS TO FIX THE AIR BAGS ARE NOT AVAILABLE.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V050000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V052000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 08V441000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 10V240000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
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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