2015 GMC Acadia problems
NHTSA has received 313 complaints about the 2015 GMC Acadia, and 35% of them involve air bags. Next are steering (10%) and electrical system (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 313 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 35% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 8 and 3
- Injuries and deaths
- 6 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 50,000 miles 148 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 20 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 25 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 43 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 19 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 19 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 8 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 6 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 2 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 3 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 3 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 148 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 50,000 miles. For air bags specifically, the median reported mileage is about 92,000 miles (16 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 8 complaints mention a crash; 3 complaints mention a fire; 6 injuries reported. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 82% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2015 ranks 12th most-complained-about out of 19 model years of the GMC Acadia with enough data (146 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 4 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Vehicle was destroyed by electrical fire on December 21, 2022. It caught on fire after ‘SERVICE BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEM’ warning light displayed.
I was curious about recalls because I totaled my 15 Acadia SLT2 and when I hit the impact didn’t deploy airbags and I had no idea until after my accident that they were recalled!!! This incident totaled my Acadia caused my face to be slammed into my steering wheel, cutting me in 2 places and shattering my eye glasses. I now have a scar that looks like a 2nd chin from my impact to hitting the steering column! What should I do?
I have goodyear fortera hl tires on my acadia and started having problems with them just at 1 month after I leased my car. The first problem was that I ended up with a major flat tire & it was just a big hole in the large tread. Since then the tires never hold inflation...all of them. I hydroplane when turning on roads that are only slightly wet and the entire car slides sideways. I now need to replace these tires at just 30,000 miles when the supposed mileage warranty is 60k.
Ist time-car stationary-started car and it started shaking-tractionary control warning came on-turned car off-waited a few minutes and turned it on and it was fine -the next day after driviing 250 miles it happened again after stopping for a toll booth-the car shut down with the same warning-after two tries it started and we drove to a chevrolet dealer and they replaced the throttle body