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GMC Acadia 2017

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

2.29 per 1,000

4.9 times this nameplate’s own median · from 229 complaints filed in the first three years, of 704 ever. 95% lower bound 2.00.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	1.14	76
2009	0.45	27
2010	0.51	31
2011	0.34	25
2012	0.46	36
2013	0.14	12
2014	0.86	75
2015	0.26	23
2016	0.17	16
2017	2.29	229
2018	1.54	154
2019	0.54	51
2020	0.33	28
2021	0.79	52
2022	0.37	21
2023	0.47	28

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Power Train 236 complaints

park	187	79%
shift park	148	62%
turn off	86	36%
park message	32	14%
recognize	27	12%
park turn	26	11%

Electrical System 193 complaints

park	126	65%
shift	108	56%
shift park	100	52%
recognize	27	14%
park turn	20	11%
recognize park	16	8%

Unknown Or Other 167 complaints

shift	108	65%
shift park	100	60%
action required	14	9%
park shut	14	9%
park message	14	9%
park error	13	8%

When it breaks

44% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 33,000 miles, from 381 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.