2015 GMC Terrain problems
NHTSA has received 385 complaints about the 2015 GMC Terrain, and 31% of them involve wipers, windshield & visibility. After that come engine (22%) and electrical system (8%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 385 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Wipers, windshield & visibility 31% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 13 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 8 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 60,000 miles 219 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 | 12 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 55 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 49 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 25 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 20 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 15 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 4 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 3 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 1 |
What the data shows
Among the 219 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 60,000 miles. For wipers, windshield & visibility specifically, the median reported mileage is about 71,000 miles (84 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 13 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 8 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 5th most-complained-about out of 17 model years of the GMC Terrain with enough data (209 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 3 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.
In the early morning of 9-5-15 my daughter began driving home from pittsburgh to de. She swerved to avoid an animal on the pa turnpike, hit the jersey wall on the right, rolled over completely twice to the left, landing upright in the median. Luckily the seat belt saved her and she had only minor injuries. However the side air bags did not deploy. In fact onstar called 911 because their monitoring equipment showed that the air bags had deployed, but they did not. The vehicle was declared a total loss.
I've attached my final repair notice to GM and it has all of the details. I have since taken my car back to the dealership to have the final repair done. They still say nothing is wrong with it. I am terrified to drive my car. I asked GM to take the car back and they say they are not willing to do anything at all to help me. The transmission is jerky and the brakes barely work. Please investigate. Its like GM would like to wait until there is a huge accident and loss of life before doing anything.
I was driving down the highway doing about 65 when I ran into a bad thunderstorm when the windshield wiper suddenly stop working they was on high speed, which was very dangerous because it was the driver side wiper. I had to pull off the highway until the rain stop!