2008 GMC ACADIA Complaints

LIFT GATE: I TOOK MY VEHICLE IN TO DEALERSHIP TO HAVE RECALL ON MY LIFT GATE COMPLLETED ( 15240). UPON COMPLETION, MY POWER LIFT GATE BECAME INOPERABLE. DEALERSHIP THEN WANTED ME TO PAY $500 TO MAKE POWER LIFT GATE OPERABLE. SERVICE ADVISER INDICATED TO ME THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST WITH A CUSTOMER WITH THE SAME TYPE OF VEHICLE AND THEY PAID THE $500. PLEASE ADVISE WHAT ACTION I NEED TO TAKE. I HAVE CONTACTED GMC CUSTOMER SERVICE WITH DETAILS OF THIS COMPLAINT.

TAKATA RECALL I TOOK MY VEHICLE TO HAVE RECALL ON POWER LIFT GATE COMPLETED. (15240). UPON COMPLETION OF RECALL, LIFT GATE BECAME INOPERABLE. DEALER NOW WANTS ME TO PAY $500.00 TO GET IT WORKING AGAIN. LIFT GATE WORKED FINE WHEN VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN IN FOR SERVICE. PLEASE ADVISE WHAT ACTION I CAN TAKE.

MY 2008 GMC ACADIA LEAKS WHEN IT RAINS, THE FLOOR BOARDS FILL WITH WATER & WATER COMES THROUGH THE INTERIOR LIGHTS CAUSING THEM TO SHORTEN, BLINK. THE POWER WINDOWS GOT STUCK WOULDN'T GO DOWN ALMOST SMASHED MY KIDS HAND. THE WORSE PART DRIVING ON INTERSTATE AT 65-70 TRAFFIC SLOWS TO 40 AND YOUR VEHICLE DOESN'T GO ALMOST CAUSING THE WORSE ACCIDENT EVER. SEEMS THIS WAVE PLATE, SHIFT SOLENOID IS A MANUFACTURER DEFECT ESPECIALLY SINCE I WAS ONLY A FEW MONTHS AFTER INITIAL PURCHASE AND THE TRUCK WAS RETURNED TO DEALER FOR SAME ISSUE SO THAT MEANS THE TRANSMISSION THEY REPLACED THE BAD ONE WITH WAS SO BAD OR REACHED ITS TIME OUT MILEAGE. THIS SHOULD BE A RECALL IF IT HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER PURCHASE (PURCHASED USED) THEN IT HAPPENS AGAIN WITH THE REPLACEMENT TRANSMISSION AND ALL THE THREADS IN HAVE READ EVERY OWNER IS EXPERIENCING THIS, SOMEONE WILL HAVE BAD ACCIDENT POSSIBLY DEATH. DOES DEATH HAVE TO OCCUR FOR US TO GET BETTER RESOLVE AND MAKE GMC TAKE CARE OF THIS. OVER $5,000 WAS TOUGH TO CHRISTMAS TIME

MY WIFE WAS DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY AND THE CAR SUDDENLY WOULD NOT GO ON A HIGH VOLUME HIGHWAY. IT TURNS OUT THE TRANSMISSION SOLENOID BLOCK WENT BAD. I HAVE LOOKED INTO IT AND THERE HAS BEEN MANY COMPLAINTS OF SAME YEAR, MODEL, AND MAKE. MY WIFE AND CHILDREN WERE IN THE CAR AND WEREALLY VERY DISTRAUGHT.IF THERE IS SO MANY COMPLAINTS ON THIS VEHICLE FOR THE SAME VERY EXPENSIVE PROBLEM, WHY NOT RECALL. $4000.00.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 GMC ACADIA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE OPERATING THE VEHICLE THE TRANSMISSION WOULD INTERMITTENTLY BECAME STUCK IN GEAR AND THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT DRIVE FORWARD OR IN REVERSE. THE VEHICLE WAS RESTARTED AND OPERATED AS NORMAL. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER, WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE TRANSMISSION AND WARMER PLATE NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 100,000.

I HAVE HAD SERVICE AIR BAG LIGHTS COME ON ALL THE TIME ALONG WITH SERVICE STABLETRACK AND AND I THINK SOMETHING WITH THE FUEL WHEN I GET GAS IT MAKES WEIRD SOUNDS AND WON'T START WITHOUT PUMPING THE GAS TO GET IT STARTED.

I HAD A RECALL FOR MY DRIVER SIDE, SIDE IMPACT AIR BAG WIRE HARNESS. THE DEALER IN DULUTH MN (KOLAR) FIXED IT BUT LIGHT CAME ON FOR CHECK ENGINE. BROUGHT IT BACK AND THEY ARE TELLING ME IT IS THE PPS SENSOR FOR THE PASSENGER AIRBAG. THERE IS A RECALL FOR THIS, BUT NOT ON MY ACADIA. THEY WANT $600 PLUS LABOR TO REPLACE. TOTALING AROUND $950. HAD ANOTHER RECALL FOR THE POWER LIFT GATE, STATING THAT THE STRUTS COULD POSSIBLY FAIL PREMATURELY, CAUSING THE POWER LIFT GATE TO DROP. AS I WAS LOADING THE BACK OF THE VEHICLE, THE LIFT GATE SUDDENLY DROPPED ON MY HEAD. I BROUGHT IT TO KOLAR IN DULUTH MN AND TOLD THEM THAT THE STRUTS FROM THE RECALL WERE SHOT AND NEEDED REPLACEMENT. I PICKED THE VEHICLE UP AFTER A DAY OF THEM TELLING ME THAT THE RECALL HAD BEEN SUCCESSFUL. A WEEK AFTER I TOOK THE CAR HOME, THE LIFT GATE FELL ON MY WIFE. I COME TO FIND OUT THAT KOLAR NEVER REPLACED THE STRUTS, EVEN AFTER ME TALKING TO THE MECHANIC AND HIM ASSURING ME THAT THEY WOULD BE CHANGED OUT. IT IS NOW SITTING AT THE DEALER WAITING FOR BACK ORDERED STRUTS TO COME IN TO BE INSTALLED.

GOING DOWN THE HIGH WAY THE STABILITRACK LIGHT COMES ON AFTER TURNING OFF THE CAR TURNING IT BACK ON IT GOES OUT THE LIGHT HASN'T CAME BACK ON ITS BEEN A COUPLE MONTHS IT ONLY COMES ON WHEN DRIVING FAR. ALSO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE BRAKES THEY GO ALL THE WAY TO THE FLOOR HARD TO STOP THE CAR. MY GIRLFRIEND TOLD ME ABOUT THE PROBLEM I DROVE IT MYSELF TO SEE IF IT WOULD DO IT TO ME NEVER DID TILL TODAY I ALMOST HIT 2 CARS

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 GMC ACADIA. THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 15V415000 (STRUCTURE) AND STATED THAT THE PART NEEDED FOR THE REPAIR WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE MANUFACTURER EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR THE RECALL REPAIR. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE ISSUE. THE CONTACT HAD NOT EXPERIENCED A FAILURE. PARTS DISTRIBUTION DISCONNECT.

PURCHASED VEHICLE FROM DEALER WITH 72000 MILES WITH 4YR/48000 MILE WARRANTY. WARRANTY RAN OUT THIS SUMMER, MILEAGE IS NOW 133000 MILES. PROBLEM HAS BEEN INTERMITTENT SINCE EARLY LAST YEAR, BUT MECHANICS WERE NOT ABLE TO HELP BECAUSE PROBLEMS WERE NOT 'PRESENTING' AS THE CHECK ENGINE LIGHT WOULD GO ON AND OFF AT DIFFERENT TIMES (JUST AS THE RECALLED SERVICE AIR BAG LIGHT DID!). IN DECEMBER 2015, THE CHECK ENGINE BEGAN STAYING ON ALL THE TIME AND THE GEARS DID NOT SHIFT CORRECTLY. THE TCM IS MESSED UP, WHICH IS A VERY COMMON PROBLEM WITH ALL ACADIAS, APPARENTLY. WE HAD A VERY SCARY ISSUE ON XMAS EVE WITH THE GEARS DOWNSHIFTING WHILE WE WERE ON THE HIGHWAY AND IT WOULDN'T LET ME GO OVER 20MPH! WE TOOK IT TO FIRST DEALERSHIP OVER AN HOUR AWAY AND THE GUY CAME OUT WITH A HANDHELD COMPUTER, PUT IN ON OUR CAR, SAID IT IS OUR TCM AND $3800 TO FIX IT. HE NEVER PUT ANYTHING IN THE COMPUTER, SO WE DIDN'T HAVE AN OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS. WE SPOKE WITH GM AND THEY SAID TO GET THE DIAGNOSIS AND THEY WOULD SEE ABOUT HELPING US TO COVER IT. SO, WE GOT THE DIAGNOSIS TODAY, IT IS THE TCM AND NO HELP. THEY SAID IT IS OUT OF WARRANTY, GM WON'T COVER IT, IT IS UP TO THE DEALER TO COVER IT, ETC. WE HAVE BEEN TOLD SO MANY DIFFERENT STORIES ABOUT WHY THEY WON'T COVER IT, JUST THAT THEY WON'T. OUR VIN NUMBER IS LITERALLY 6000 OFF OF THE RECALL LIST! IT IS A COMMON PROBLEM AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN A NATIONAL RECALL! DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT? I WOULD LOVE TO BE A PART OF ONE.