2012 GMC Yukon
This year drew an ordinary 137 complaints for a GMC Yukon — the model's median is 186. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.9% of them mention stationary, against 3.1% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the GMC Yukon, which began in 2007 and ran to 2014. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 137 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 186 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- stationary — 10.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the other years of this generation (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: stationary, vehicle stationary, console, front dash.
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
DASHBOARD CRACKED IN 2 AREAS. OFF THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE AIRBAG & ON THE WINDOW SIDE OF THE DRIVERS CONSOLE. CAR WAS IN THE DRIVEWAY STATIONARY.
THE PLASTIC DASHBOARD STRUCTURE OF THE FRONT DASH (ABS PLASTIC) IS CRACKING AND SEPARATING SPONTANEOUSLY. LARGE CRACK DEVELOPED IN FROM OF THE DRIVER AND IS EXPANDING WITH MULTIPLE OFFSHOOTS CAUSING THE DASH STRUCTURE TO SPLIT IN TWO AND IS IN DANGER OF FRAGME…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V827000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V054000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V051000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the GMC Yukon 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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