2007 GMC ACADIA Complaints

TRANSMISSION FAILURE...FIRST NOTICED CAR HESITATED ACCELERATING WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PASS OR GETTING ON INTERSTATE AND RPMS WOULD JUMP UP TO 4-5K THEN HESITATION IN ACCELERATING BEFORE JUMPING INTO FEAR...THEN LATER INCREASED RPMS AT30MPH AND WOULD NOT ACCELERATE. THIS HAPPENED MANY TIMES BUT WOULD GO DAYS/WEEKS IN BETWEEN INCIDENTS. AFTER TAKING TO SHOP AND RESEARCHING THIS IS A VERY COMMON PROBLEM WITH THIS MODEL...WAVE PLATE FAILURE IN TCM ( POOR QUALITY PART) THIS IS SO DANGEROUS....AFTER FIRST INCIDENT I BECAME MORE AWARE OF HOW THE CAR WOULD BEHAVE AND WAS BETTER PREPARED WHEN IT DECIDED TO JUMP INTO A HIGHER GEAR OR HESITATE. CAR IS BEING REPAIRED NOW AND THANKFULLY MY FAMILY STAYED SAFE. TOO MANY OWNERS WITH SAME PROBLEM FOR THIS SAFETY ISSUE TO BE IGNORED. PLEASE HELP. *TR

PUSHING THE GAS PEDAL THE VEHICLE REVVED UP AND THE GEARS SLAMMED INTO GEAR, ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON AND SEEMS TO HAVE NO FIRST GEAR AS OF NOW. SEEMS IT MAY BE THE WAVE PLATE WITHIN THE TRANSMISSION. *TR

GOING DOWN HIGHWAY VEHICLE ACTED LIKE IT SLIPPED OUT OF GEAR ..ABOUT GOT RUN OVER BY TRANSFER TRUCK BEFORE I COULD GET IT TO SIDE OF ROAD ...TOOK TO SHOP SAID TRANSMISSION NEEDED REPLACED ..APPARENTLY LIKE 100S OF THEM DO ON THE ACADIA. *TR

I WAS DRIVING HOME FROM WORK AROUND 5:05PM ON THE 5 NORTH FREEWAY GOING ABOUT 65 MPH. ALL OF A SUDDEN MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT WENT ON AND I FELT A SUDDEN LOSS OF POWER IN MY ACCELERATION. AS I STEPPED ON THE GAS MORE TO KEEP UP WITH THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC, THE RPM NEEDLE JUMPED UP TO BETWEEN 4 AND 6 ON MY GAUGE, BUT MY VEHICLE WASN'T GOING ANY FASTER SO I HAD TO STEER TO THE RIGHT TO GET TO THE EXIT. I WAS BARELY ABLE TO EXIT WITHOUT ALMOST GETTING REAR ENDED BUT I HAD NO CHOICE AS MY VEHICLE WOULD NOT GO OVER 40MPH. AFTER GETTING IT CHECKED AT THE NEAREST SHOP, I WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS A STUCK SOLENOID. AFTER I GOT THAT FIXED, 4 MONTHS LATER, SAME PROBLEM, BUT NOW THE DEALERSHIP IS TELLING ME THEY WILL HAVE TO REBUILD MY TRANSMISSION DUE TO A BROKEN WAVE PLATE, WHICH WILL COST ME AT LEAST $2800, WHICH I DON'T HAVE. *TR

TRANSMISSION HAS FULL FAILURE, DEALERS SAID THAT WAVE PLATE WENT OUT DESTROYING ENTIRE TRANSMISSION. $4300 REPAIR AT GMC DEALERSHIP. *TR

WHEN BEGINNING TO DRIVE OUR VEHICLE FROM CHURCH THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON AND VEHICLE WOULD NOT DOWNSHIFT, AND SPEED WOULD NOT GET ABOVE 30 MPH. WHEN BROUGHT TO THE DEALERSHIP THE FOLLOWING DAY, WE WERE TOLD WE WOULD NEED A NEW TRANSMISSION. THE VEHICLE ONLY HAS 50K AND SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD THIS ISSUE, AND IT IS A TRANSMISSION SAFETY ISSUE. HAD WE BEEN ON A BUSY HIGHWAY AND THIS INCIDENT OCCURRED, A MAJOR ACCIDENT COULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE. OTHER SITES HAVE LISTED NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE SAME TRANSMISSION PROBLEM OCCURRING IN VARIOUS ACADIA'S AS WELL. A RECALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN ISSUED AND GM SHOULD PAY FOR THE FULL REPAIR AS IT IS OVER $4,000. *TR

BOUGHT WITH 58K MILES ON IT, 9/2012. PROBLEMS BEGAN THE FOLLOWING APRIL. SITTING AT RED LIGHTS, THE TRUCK WOULD STALL OUT AT ACCELERATION, OCCASIONALLY NOT RESTARTING IMMEDIATELY. DEALERS COULDN'T REPLICATE PROBLEM. PROBLEM BRIEFLY STOPPED, AND NOW IT HAS RETURNED AND IS FAR WORSE. WHILE DRIVING, IT SHAKES AND JERKS LIKE A NEW DRIVER LEARNING TO USE A MANUAL TRANSMISSION. SEVERAL TIMES THE TRUCK HAS SHUT OFF COMPLETELY ON HIGHWAYS WHILE CRUISING AT OR AROUND 70MPH OR ACCELERATING TO PASS SOMEONE, NEARLY CAUSING ACCIDENTS. THIS TRUCK HAS BEEN TOWED HOME 3 TIMES THIS MONTH FROM THIS ISSUE, I REFUSED TO TAKE IT TO A GMC DEALER BECAUSE I CAN'T KEEP PAYING $109 FOR DIAGNOSIS AND THEY SAY THEY DON'T FIND ANYTHING (TWICE ALREADY). I RECENTLY HAD THE VEHICLE SCANNED INDEPENDENTLY AND IT'S GIVEN ME CODES 7EA AND 7E8. THE SECOND CODE DOESN'T GIVE A DIAGNOSIS. IN THE LAST WEEK IT HAS FAILED TO START 4 TIMES AND I'VE BEEN KEEPING VIDEO BLOGS TO RECORD WHAT IT IS OR ISN'T DOING. IT IS CURRENTLY SITTING IN MY DRIVE WAY, NOT OPERABLE. GM CUSTOMER SERVICE SAYS THERE ISN'T ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT A RECALL, BUT EVERYONE IS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEMS. TWICE IT STRANDED MY WIFE AND CHILDREN ON INTERSTATES. ON 10/30/13 (ON OUR ANNIVERSARY, OUT OF TOWN NONE THE LESS) IT SHUT OFF AND WE HAD TO GET PUSHED TO THE SHOULDER...VERY EMBARRASSING! SOMETHING MUST BE DONE! EVERYBODY CAN'T BE TELLING THE SAME LIE! ALSO, THE "SERVICE AIRBAGS" NOTICE JUST STARTED SHOWING. *TR

MY WIFE AND I WERE ON HWY 78 IN LOGANVILLE GA WHEN THE VEHICLE WOULDN'T SHIFT CAUSING US TO VEER OFF THE ROAD. LUCKILY NO ONE WAS IN THE OTHER LANE. WHEN I GOT TO MY DEALERSHIP I ASKED THE SERVICE WRITER IF THIS WAS A COMMON PROBLEM IN THE ACADIA AND HE SAID VERY CANDIDLY YES. HE FURTHER SAID AS THE MILEAGE GETS HIGHER ON THESE MODELS HE EXPECTS NUMEROUS BREAKDOWNS. MY WIFE IS DISABLED AND THIS IS HER CAR. WHAT IF I HADN'T BEEN DRIVING. IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOMEONE GETTING KILLED BEFORE GM ADMITS THESE TRANSMISSIONS HAVE DEFECTIVE PARTS. IT'S NOT A MATTER OF IF THEY WILL BREAK BUT WHEN. *TR

I WAS TRAVELING AT APPROX 40 MPH IN TOWN, THE VEHICLE FELT LIKE IT BOGGED DOWN, ODOMETER STILL SHOWED 40MPH BUT I WAS NOT GOING ANYWHERE, CAR BEHIND ME SLAMMED ON THEIR BRAKES, CAR BEHIND HIM SLAMMED ON THEIR BRAKES, I WAS HONKED AT ALL THE WHILE I AM PUSHING ON THE ACCELERATOR, AFTER 10 OR 12 SECONDS IT WENT FORWARD WITH THE RPM'S GOING VERY HIGH AND MPH WENT TO 50 AND BACK TO 40 IMMEDIATELY AND I WENT FORWARD. IT SCARES ME TO DRIVE THIS CAR AND FROM WHAT I HAVE READ JUST TODAY, I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE HAVING THE PROBLEM. PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS BEFORE SOMEONE IS REALLY HURT. *TR

WHEN PULLING OUT FROM A STOP, THE VEHICLE SHIFTS VERY HARD FROM 1ST TO 2ND GEAR. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LOUD CRUNCHING SOUND AND OCCASIONALLY IT WILL SHUDDER WHILE DRIVING. THE VEHICLE HESITATES ALL THE TIME WHEN TRYING TO ACCELERATE, AND WILL NOT DOWNSHIFT WHEN GOING UP HILLS. ERRATICALLY CHANGES GEARS EVEN WHILE TRAVELING AT THE SAME RATE OF SPEED, LIKE IT IS NOT SURE WHAT GEAR TO BE IN. THE CHECK-ENGINE LIGHT WILL COME ON AND IT WILL NOT CHANGE OUT OF 1ST GEAR, AND IT WILL STAY THIS WAY UNTIL THE VEHICLE IT TURNED OFF AND LEFT ALONE FOR A FEW MINUTES. THEN THE LIGHT WILL GO AWAY AFTER IT IS DRIVEN ABOUT 50 MILES. I HAVE HAD THE SHIFT SOLENOID REPLACED ($450 EXPENSE) WHICH IS THAT THE CODE SAID WAS WRONG, AND THIS DID NOT FIX THE PROBLEM OR HELP ANYTHING. *TR