2017 GMC Yukon XL
This year drew an ordinary 148 complaints for a GMC Yukon XL — the model's median is 192. What they were about is the unusual part: 33.1% of them mention brake, against 4.6% across the model's other years.
| Complaints filed | 148 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 192 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brake — 33.1% of this year's complaints, against 4.6% across the model's other years (7.1×).
- working — 28.4% of this year's complaints, against 8.5% across the model's other years (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: working, tail light, stopped working, common problem.
- tail — 23.6% of this year's complaints, against 7.3% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: tail, push, lamps, light vehicle.
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
Rear brake light has stopped working. GMC dealer quotes $990 to replace one tail light assembly. It appears to be a common problem caused by a weak conductor that breaks inside the assembly. Because of the high price quoted by dealerships, people are resorting…
TRANSMISSION WENT OUT AT 88K MILES. MY SISTER IN LAW ALSO HAS A 2017 BOUGHT FROM ANOTHER STATE AND IT WENT OUT AT 79K MILES A WEEK AFTER MINE. PASSENGER SIDE TAIL LIGHT WORKS IF YOU PUSH ON IT THEN RANDOMLY GOES OUT (WIRING/ELECTRICAL ISSUE). OF COURSE THE DRI…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V651000 AIR BAGS 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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