2010 GMC Yukon Denali problems
Owners have filed 75 complaints with NHTSA about the 2010 GMC Yukon Denali. Air bags is the most reported problem area, at 28% of complaints. Next are body & structure (17%) and engine (8%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 75 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 28% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 0 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 5 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 71,000 miles 56 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 | 5 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 5 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 7 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 14 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 16 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 4 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 3 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 2 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 0 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 56 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 71,000 miles. For air bags specifically, the median reported mileage is about 80,000 miles (15 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 5 injuries reported. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 87% 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 2010 ranks 8th most-complained-about out of 15 model years of the GMC Yukon Denali with enough data (31 complaints in that window).
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.
The dash board is cracked. This started off as a small crack on the top left corner of the air bag on the dash, it has spread all the way across the dash to the area over my instrument panel and has now sunk in the middle of the dash as if there is absolutely no supports under the middle of the dash to hold it up. I see that there are no recalls on this, but I am worried that if something were to happen and the air bags deployed that pieces of the dash would go everywhere and cut us up even worse than an accident.
Tl*the contact owns a 2010 GMC yukon denali. The contact engaged the automatic trunk mechanism and suddenly the trunk lid closed on his hand which resulted in a minor injury to the hand during the immediate closure. The contact stated there was not an alert safety feature equipped on the vehicle for the trunk closure. The failure mileage was approximately 15,000.
On a snow and ice covered highway with heavy traffic while traveling at 65 MPH, I suddenly got a "reducing engine power" message on the display followed by a "service stability control system" message. As my vehicle quickly lost power, to include power steering and power brakes, I was almost rear ended by another vehicle. After getting to the side of the road and turning the vehicle off then on again, I was able to drive another 2 miles; then this happened again and again a third time before getting to the dealer.
Vehicle was parked, mild fall weather. Found that dashboard just above driver's instrument panel is severely cracked, excessive vibration and noise when operated and potential harm to operator if air bags deploy.
Takata recall I cant understand, why the delay? I own a 2010 model for almost eight years I have been driving a potential "car bomb" its either a recall or not