Body problems of the 2009 GMC Acadia

Tl- the contact owns a 2009 GMC Acadia. The contact stated that the vehicle's lift gate independently descended. The failure occurred without warning. The dealer was not contacted. The manufacturer was notified of the failure referrred the contact to NHTSA. The failure mileage was approximately 108,000. The contact referenced NHTSA campaign: 15v415000(structure) however the VIN was not inlcuded. Kh.

My car completely died while driving it a few months back. Just got it back after about 3 months, partial sucky dealership, partial back order issue. Turns out the sunroof leaked into the dash. Had to replace the body harness and something with the dash. $5100. I estimated on the date it happened because it's been awhile.

The contact owns a 2009 GMC Acadia. The contact received notification of NHTSA campaign number: 15v415000 (structure) however, the part to do the repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The contact had not experienced a failure. The VIN was not available.

Tl-the contact owns a 2009 GMC Acadia. The contact stated that while in park, the lift gate independently closed while the contact was behind the vehicle. As a result the contact became wedged in between the lift gate and the bottom of the vehicle. The contact did not sustain any injuries that required medical attention. The vehicle was taken to a dealer who diagnosed that the gas struts needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The VIN was included in NHTSA campaign number : 15v415000 (structure) however, the part needed to repair the vehicle was unavailable. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 85,000. Oo.

Tl - the contact owns a 2009 GMC Acadia. The contact stated that the lift gate failed to remained open. In addition, the contact received a notification for NHTSA campaign number: 15v415000 (structure). However, the parts were not available. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time to make the parts available. The dealer was contacted and was unable to provide a time frame. The manufacturer was made aware of the delay. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 60,000. Pm.

My son was driving down a residential street which has a right turn/murge over a canal. Upon reaching the right turn the power steering failed and he was unable to navigate the turn. The Acadia drove forward into a large pipe which crosses over the canal. The front of the Acadia was crashed including the front bumper, radiator, head lamps, engine, driver side front panel, passenger side panel, and the frame. None of the air bags deployed during this crash. There is a recall on the side airbags at this time but not the front airbags. There is no recall on the power steering on this gm model. I have had experienced the power steering intermittently fail when turning both left and right. My daughter also experienced power steering failure one week prior to my son's accident. I was in the vehicle with her. This power steering failure is not exclusive to my GMC Acadia 2009. Consumer reports as well as the Acadia forum also has mentioned this power steering failure in other GMC Acadias. The airbags not deploying during this incident is also very concerning. This air bag failure could have caused major injury given another senario.

The SUV was parked in my mom's driveway. I pushed the remote to open the rear power lift gate. I came upon the back of the SUV with my 3 year old daughter and the lift gate was up. I went to put something in the trunk when the lift gate collapsed on my head knocking me out and to the ground. Luckily my mom saw what happened, got my husband and made sure my daughter didn't wander in to the road. I was knocked out for a few seconds, but luckily people were around. Imagine if it had happened near a busy road or parking lot. We have a 1 year old and a 3 year old. Could of been disastrous. So upon spending several hours in the er, I was diagnosed with a concussion. My husband looked at the lift gate, watched it go up to the top, stop and then come crashing closed. It appears it was a complete failure of the rod that opens the lift gate, both pistons or arms that help lift and support the lift gate, and the sensors which should tell the door to immediately open back up. The door came down with such force it could permanently injure or kill a child or senior citizen. We contacted GMC immediately they took down our information regarding the car and incident. Took GMC 2 days to call back and go over everything again and 2 more days to get the story from my husband. So 12 days in to this and all they've done is collect the info over the course of 2 calls. They are also telling us that we have to wait another 8 days just to get a future date to have the lift gate inspected by GMC. Huh? 20 days and counting with no working lift gate. Family of four plus a dog during christmas makes it very difficult. GMC seems more concerned with vacations than there product failure and customer injury. I hope that we can come to some sort of fair resolution and a permanent fix to a potentially lethal problem without going through the legal system. We'll see if GMC does the right thing.

Driving down the road and notice a deer. Speed limit was 55, so we had slowed down to about 45. Deer crossing in front of us, and we almost come to a complete stop (about 10-15mph). We hit the deer on the passenger front. Get out of the car to assess the damage, and notice a fire under the grill and headlights. Air bags had deployed. Everyone evacuated the vehicle, and it was a total loss.

Vehicle has automatic, power assisted rear hatch back door opener. When it operates properly, the door closes slowly, using the struts for downward resistance. Now however, the hatch will open, but then abruptly shut, often with great force due to the weight of the door. The force is great enough to cause harm, and possible death to a small person. This is a full sized SUV, and the rear hatch includes the door and glass, and is very heavy by itself. 2nd. Item - this vehicle has remote tire pressure readings and displays a warning on the dash if a tire pressure gets too low. The problem is the device does not reflect the proper tire, it will indicate the front left tire is too low, when in actuality, it is the rear left. Thus, the device does not work, which would lead someone to drive around with a very low rear tire, thinking all tires were fine, because when they checked the front tire that was shown to be low, it was actually ok. This needs to be correctly reporting the right tire.