2015 GMC Yukon
Complaints about this year name tail far more often than the other years of this generation — 28% of them, about 70× the usual rate of 0.4%.
First year of a new generation. The GMC Yukon was redesigned for 2015. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 546 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 164 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 17.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- lights — 33.5% of this year's complaints, against 12.1% across the other years of this generation (2.8×).
- tail — 28% of this year's complaints, against 8.2% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: tail, tail light, tail lights, rear tail.
- brake light — 17.2% of this year's complaints, against 6.6% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: brake light, side brake, light work, light failed.
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 light — 17% of complaints, 43× usual
- brake — 42% of complaints, 4× usual
- led — 16% of complaints, 39× usual
What owners wrote
BOTH OF THE VEHICLE TAIL LIGHTS HAVE BECOME NONOPERATIONAL DUE TO A MANUFACTURING DEFECT. BRAKE LIGHTS DO NOT WORK. THE TAIL LIGHTS ARE A COMPLETE ASSEMBLES AND CONSIST OF LEDS.
CIRCUIT BOARDS IN LED TAIL LIGHTS FAILING. THIS RESULTS IN SPORADIC FUNCTIONING BRAKE LIGHTS. THE DESIGN OF THE BUS BAR IN THE TAIL LIGHT HAS RESULTED IN CREATING WEAK SPOTS IN THE BUS BAR THAT CRACK AND UNLESS REPLACED OR REPAIRED AT SUBSTANTIAL COST THE BRAK…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V586000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 19V645000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 19V761000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 16V651000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V437000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V719000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 14V152000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 14V451000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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