GMC Yukon

Which GMC Yukon years should you avoid?

Going by 5,019 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the GMC Yukon years to avoid are 2007, 2015, 2021 and 2016.

• 2007428 complaints, 3.2× a typical Yukon year, most often about the airbags; and 2.1× the usual share of fires, crashes and deaths for a car of its age (5 fires, 16 crashes, 2 deaths).
• 2015529 complaints, 4.0× a typical Yukon year, most often about the headlights.
• 2021345 complaints, 2.6× a typical Yukon year, most often about the engine.
• 2016271 complaints, 2.0× a typical Yukon year, most often about the headlights.

Better bets: among years old enough for a low count to mean something, the 2020, 2012 and 2018 drew the fewest complaints without an unusual share of serious ones.

Too new to judge: 2025, 2026 and 2027. Complaints take a few years to arrive, so a new model year looks better than it is.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →