2004 GMC Envoy problems
Owners have filed 483 complaints with NHTSA about the 2004 GMC Envoy. Electrical system is the most reported problem area, at 34% of complaints. Next are fuel system (14%) and lighting (8%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 483 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Electrical system 34% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 34 and 19
- Injuries and deaths
- 39 and 1
- Typical mileage
- 71,000 miles 378 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 | 34 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 36 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 69 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 79 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 38 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 29 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 33 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 21 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 18 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 12 |
| 200k+ miles | 9 |
What the data shows
Of the 378 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 71,000 miles. For electrical system specifically, the median reported mileage is about 62,000 miles (133 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 34 complaints mention a crash; 19 complaints mention a fire; 39 injuries reported; 1 death reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2004 ranks 4th most-complained-about out of 9 model years of the GMC Envoy with enough data (229 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
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.
My wife was in the car alone. Vehicle ran off road, crashed into parked truck, air bag did not deploy. Wife died of "closed chest trauma",
I was a front seat passenger in a 2004 envoy when we were rear ended by a semi truck. The seat I was in twisted sideways toward the driver's seat. I want to know if this is a common occurrence in envoy accidents.
Bought the car 2006 was two years at that time less than a week into replaced brakes for ABS failure. Still happening, took it back said everything was normal. Well about two weeks ago my wife was going up-hill to a stop light hit the brakes on slick pavement and the brakes locked up and ABS did not kick in. Causing my wife to total two vehicles that I am now being sued for one of them.
This past month the speedometer set at 40 MPH with car in "park" position. Afterward when driving, my actual speed had 40MPH added to the reading. This has occurred three times so far in october 2008.
One rear door swung open while pulling out of a parking lot with my daughter in the backseat (thank goodness she was in a seatbelt, but my purchase went flying out and spilled out all over the road). Since then I have noticed both rear door latches randomly stick closed even when the doors are unlocked and both latches randomly fail to latch closed causing door to remain open. After this happens, I try numerous times to close the door only to have it not catch. After playing with the latch, it finally works.