Exterior Lighting Problems of Cadillac XT5

Cadillac XT5 owners have reported 3 problems related to exterior lighting (under the exterior lighting category). The most recently reported issues are listed below. Also please check out the statistics and reliability analysis of Cadillac XT5 based on all problems reported for the XT5.

1 Exterior Lighting problem of the 2017 Cadillac XT5

Failure Date: 12/15/2020

Vehicle in motion on highway, vehicle suddenly dies, goes dead, uncontrollable. Vehicle will not respond to engine start button. Will not respond to attempts to restart, unable to brake, vehicle continues to be uncontrollable, rolling into cross traffic. All electronics do not respond, unable to open doors to get out. Can not unlock doors all electronics flashing, door locks rapidly cycling locked all electronics uncontrollable. Unable to activate hazzard lights. Onstar system dead, unable to call for help. After approx. 30 min. Vehicle suddenly without warning restarts on it's own and begins to function.

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2 Exterior Lighting problem of the 2019 Cadillac XT5

Failure Date: 06/16/2019

We bought Xt5 on 12/04/18, on 02/19/19, brought in for transmission and check engine light. 06/10/19, brought in for routine maintenance and service. 06/16/19, on the way back from knoxville on freeway I-40, while it was raining hard, all lights inside and out and windshield wipers didn't work. Wipers were standing up right in front of driver and stop, never move back down. We were surrounded with high speed cars and trucks, and semis, in the rain and couldn't see the front with no wipers, and inside the car was pit black. We must drive for around a mile before getting to a next exit. Got off exit, call onstar for help, they said wait 90 minutes for tow truck and we must find our own transportation to get home, since it was Sunday, no one was open at that time. We didn't know where we were so we waited out the rain, and drove slowly back in town, with wipers sticking up in front of driver, to meet up with sales rep. Tim marcum for help, he loan us a car to get home and came the next day, Monday, to see jayson taylor, Cadillac manager. We asked them to buy back the car since we are so scare now what would happen next time with the car. They suggested us calling gm directly. We did, and jayda, senior case manager said she would only pay for fixing but not buying back, unless something major happened, like transmission, engine, brakes,. . We told her that this was serious, we we were in danger of loosing our lives there, but obviously it was not serious to her, we said what if the same thing happened, on freeway, fast speeding cars and trucks, raining hard, but instead of no lights and now wipers, this time no brakes or sudden stop and engine not starting. What would happened? in 6 months period, 2 incidents already, the later is more serious than the first, we rather prevent problems than having to deal with it, what if the problems getting bigger or someone get hurt.

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3 Exterior Lighting problem of the 2017 Cadillac XT5

Failure Date: 07/26/2017

#1 I have problem viewing thru windshield because light beige dashboard reflecting onto the inside of the windshield (sun glare). . . #2 I have hard to see rearview when back up because too dim backup lamps. . .


Other Common Exterior Lighting related problems of Cadillac XT5

Problem Category Number of Problems
Exterior Lighting problems
3
Headlights problems
3
Hazard Flashing Warning Light Unit problems
1
Turn Signal Switch problems
1


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