2011 GMC ACADIA Complaints

THE 2011 GMC ACADIA VEHICLE AT 38K MILES SUFFERED A MAJOR LEAK IN THE COOLING SYSTEM.PER NHTSA ID NUMBER 10052213 & PB-13079, THE FIX DID NOT STOP THE COOLANT LEAKAGE AROUND THE WATER PUMP SEAL. WITH THE VEHICLE AT 38K MILES THE DEALER TESTED AND CHARGED FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THE WATER PUMP. THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED WITH THIS LOW MILEAGE. THE MANUFACTURERS SAFETY ISSUE IN MY PART WAS UNSATISFACTORY DO TO THE REPLACEMENT OF THE DEFECTIVE PART NOT UNDER WARRENTY.

2011 GMC ACADIA, #14329B SPECIAL COVERAGE ADJUSTMENT-LOSS OF POWER STEERING ASSIST. COVERAGE GOOD FOR PERIOD OF 10 YEARS OR 150,000 MILES. ACADIA STARTED HAVING POWER STEERING PROBLEM IN JAN 2017. 2/1/2017 SERVICE ACADIA AT THE DEALER'S FROM 2/1/2017 UNTIL 2/8/2017 TO REPLACE STEERING PUMP. DROVE THE CAR FROM THE DEALER, NOTICED IT WAS SCARY, BOUNCING RIGHT AWAY. TOOK IT BACK RIGHT AWAY. THE ADVISOR TOLD ME THAT SINCE THE CAR HAD BEEN LEFT ON THE LIFT THE STRUTS ON THE SHOCKS HAD EXPANDED. MECHANIC DROVE THE ACADIA AND SAID IT WAS SAFE TO DRIVE. DROVE HOME AND OTHER PEOPLE SAID IT WAS NOT NORMAL. TOOK THE ACADIA BACK ON 2/21/2017. ON 2/22/2017 THE ADVISOR CALLED AND SAID THE CAR NEEDED NEW STRUTS FOR $648.53. THE CAR HAD ONLY 31, 180 MILES. THE DEALER SAID IT WAS WEAR AND TEAR. AS A 77 YEAR OLD RETIRED SCHOOL TEACHER, I DRIVE CAREFULLY, PRUDENTLY. HAVE THE OLD STRUTS. DOES THIS MAKE SENSE? THE DEALER SHOULD HAVE PERFORMED THIS 'SPECIAL COVERAGE ADJUSTMENT TO ENSURE COMPLETE SAFE VEHICLE OPERATION FROM THE BEGINNING'. DUE TO DEALER INCOMPETENCE BAMBOOZLED INTO PAYING FOR STRUT REPAIRS. THESE STRUTS WERE OPERATING JUST FINE BEFORE THE PUMP REPAIR WAS COMPLETED. THE CAR IS BETTER. STILL DOES RIDE AS WELL AS BEFORE. THE CAR WAS UNSAFE. HAVE 2 INVOICES, PLUS SPECIAL COVERAGE BULLETIN, PLUS OLD STRUTS.

DAYTIME RUNNING LIGHTS HAVE OVERHEATED ON BOTH SIDES AND HAVE MELTED THE PLASTIC HOUSING. THE LIGHTS ARE EXTREMELY HOT IN A CONFINED SPACE AND ARE IN VERY CLOSE PROXIMITY TO A FLAMMABLE MATERIAL. I NOTICED SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE HEADLIGHT AND SAW THAT IT HAS MELTED THE HOUSING TO THE POINT WHERE THE BULB IS NOW SITTING DIRECTLY ON THE MELTED PLASTIC HOUSING. THESE ARE THE RUNNING LIGHTS....NOT THE MAIN HEADLIGHTS.

MY POWER STEERING HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY LOUD AND DIFFICULT TO HANDLE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS. IN RESEARCHING THIS PROBLEM, I HAVE NOTICED NUMEROUS SIMILAR PROBLEMS OTHER INDIVIDUALS WITH THIS TYPE OF VEHICLE HAVE HAD. I AM NOT UNDERSTANDING WHY THERE HAVE NOT BEEN ANY RECALLS TO CORRECT THIS PROBLEM IF IT IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THE ACADIA. RECENTLY, APPROXIMATELY A WEEK AGO, I HAVE NOTICED THAT MY "STABILITRACK" IS OFF AND MY VEHICLE TELLS ME TO "SERVICE BRAKE SYSTEM" AND IS NOT BECOMING DIFFICULT TO STOP AND SHAKES QUITE A BIT WHEN DOING SO. I TRAVEL FROM HOME TO TOWN AND OFTEN HAVE TO TRAVEL ON THE INTERSTATE WITH MULTIPLE CARS TRAVELING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS MYSELF IN CLOSE VICINITY. THE POWER STEERING PROBLEM IS ROUGHLY $1300 TO FIX AND THE BRAKE SYSTEM IS ROUGHLY $800 TO FIX. WHY ARE THERE NOT RECALLS ON THESE PROBLEMS IF IT IS SO COMMON? GMC NEEDS TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING POORLY MADE VEHICLES THAT COST A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY ONLY FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON TO FIX AND MY MILEAGE IS ONLY 72,000 MILES...THESE PROBLEMS NEED TO BE INVESTIGATED IMMEDIATELY BEFORE AN ACCIDENT HAPPENS, LIVES LOST, AND GMC SUED.

I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH ALMOST 1/2 A TANK OF GAS, AND I LOST POWER SUDDENLY, AND HAD NO CONTROL OVER MY VEHICLE BECAUSE THE POWER STEERING AND EVERYTHING QUIT. BECAUSE I AM FAIRLY STRONG, I WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO TURN OFF THE ROAD INTO A SAFE PLACE, AND NOT BE STRANDED ON A VERY BUSY TWO LANE ROAD. AFTER HAVING THE CAR TOWED TO PAUL'S AUTOMOTIVE GARAGE, I WAS ADVISED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS OUT OF GAS.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2011 GMC ACADIA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT EVERY TIME THE AIR CONDITIONING WAS ACTIVATED, THE AIR FAILED TO BLOW OUT. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE REAR EVAPORATOR CORE AND BLOWER MOTOR NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE WAS 85,000.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2011 GMC ACADIA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE HAD DRASTICALLY REDUCED SPEED WITH NO WARNING. VARIOUS WARNING LIGHTS FLASHED ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL, THE SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL LIGHT, THE SERVICE STABILITY TRACTION CONTROL LIGHT AND THEN THE ENGINE REDUCED SPEED WARNING INDICATOR AS THE VEHICLE DRASTICALLY REDUCED SPEED TO LESS THAN 15 MPH. THE CONTACT HAD TO COAST THE VEHICLE OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC FOR FURTHER INSPECTION AND DIAGNOSIS. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 55,675.

WHINING NOISE IN STEERING COLUMN, THUMPING AT SLOW RIGHT TURNS, NEEDED NEW RACK AND PINION, CV JOINTS REPLACED

I WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS VEHICLE TO THE DEALER FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS. NOW THAT THE WARRANTY IS EXPIRED, I HAD TO CHANGE THE DRIVESHAFT, FELL OUT WHILE TRANSPORTING PASSENGERS; TRANSFER CASE, THE TRANSITION FROM DRIVE, THE AUTOMATIC SHIFT WOULD JERK; A PASSENGER I HAD IN THE CAR TOLD ME ONE DAY I WOULD NOT MAKE IT UP A HILL. ONE WEEK LATER IT HAPPENED. TRANSMISSION, THE VEHICLE WOULDN'T MOVE EVEN WHEN GAS WAS APPLIED; 6 COILS AND PLUGS, THE BAD SMELL OF SOMETHING BURNING WAS SCARY. I HAD TO PULL OFF THE ROAD BECAUSE THE REDUCE POWER LIGHT COME ON. YESTERDAY, 12/26/16, I WENT THROUGH THIS AGAIN!!! THERE IS A RUBBING SOUND IN ONE OF MY WHEELS, DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS YET. I ALSO CHANGED THE AXELS AND ABOUT TO CHANGE THE TIE RODS FOR A CLUNKING NOISE WHILE MAKING TURNS ON UNEVEN SURFACES. I MADE NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS TO GMC HQ AND THE DEALER HERE IN THE VI FROM 2013. THE DEALER CHANGED PARTS THAT WERE IRRELEVANT AND TOLD ME IT WAS FIXED.

I HAVE A 2011 GMC ACADIA. I PURCHASED THIS VEHICLE USED IN LATE 2013. THIS IS THE 6TH TIME I HAVE NEEDED TO REPLACE MY LOWBEAMS. LAST NIGHT HEADING HOME FROM WORK AROUND DUSK I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY AND SOMEONE PULLED OUT IN FRONT OF ME AND I HAD TO SWERVE TO AVOID HITTING HIM. I LOST DRIVERS SIDE TWO DAYS AGO AND LOST THE PASSENGERS HEADLIGHT AS I STARTED UP MY VEHICLE LEAVING WORK. IT WAS APPARENT THAT HE DID NOT SEE MY VEHICLE AS ALL THE OTHER VEHICLES HAD THEIR LIGHTS ON. THIS IS CLEARLY A DESIGN ISSUE THAT IF ALLOWED TO CONTINUE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASES THE RISK OF AN ACCIDENT WHICH PUTS MY FAMILY IN DANGER. PLEASE ADDRESS THIS INCREASED RISK TO MY FAMILY AND OTHER FAMILIES THAT ARE ON THE ROAD WITH THESE VEHICLES.