general problems of the 2017 GMC Acadia - part 2

When parking my car "the shift to park light comes on" cannot shut the car off- not sure if its in park-you have to restart the car and keep trying to turn the car off--also all interior lights stay on--can not lock the car---this should be repaired by gm.

Vehicle went on fire in or near the engine compartment - the entire front end was burned and car is a total loss. I was in the vehicle driving home with my children (a 5 min drive from their school) and we smelled what we assumed was a a fire pit or fireplace burning nearby; we got out of the vehicle, within 90 seconds there were flames coming out of the hood. Car was well maintained and received nearly all service at the rvc GMC dealership it was purchased from. Vehicle was also still under the warranty we purchased.

Vehicle transmission does not recognize what gear it is in, a potential danger. Warning light appears randomly "shift to park" and vehicle will not shut down. Vehicle does not recognize that it is in park. Requires multiple attempts to manually shift gears. Multiple complaints for this issue found online. Contacted gm customer assistance and they are unresponsive to this problem. Gm would not reimburse me for the repair and would not recognize this as a manufacturing problem (supposed to send $100 coupon to dealer, good for 1 year?) see 2 attachements.

The car says “shift to park” even when it has been put in park. The car could potentially not be parked and cause damages to people or objects. I’m not sure if it’s been confirmed by dealer but plenty of people with the same car have reported this incident. This car was purchased within the last year clean title, no issue until the past couple weeks. Car is at about 44k miles, only driven on weekends and occasionally to the store during the week 5-10 mile radius.

When vehicle is put in park (dash reads park) the vehicle is not detecting the vehicle in park and vehicle will not turn off. It takes multiple attempt moving the gearshift into other gears and then into park before the vehicle registers a "park" and able to turn off the vehicle. If you take your foot off the the break, vehicle doesn't move when park gear not detected. Safety concerns include parking in garage and not realizing the vehicle has not turn off and possibility of co2 or if a child would get in the vehicle possibly being able to engage the gearshift into reverse or drive. This happen 3 out of 4 times when placed in park.

When I place car into park I get "shift to park "message . . . . I am unable to turn off or leave my vehicle . . . . I am worried that as this problem has increased over the past 3 months that I will be stuck on the road or elsewhere . . . . The dealers say they are aware of the issue but no permanent fix or recall has been issued by GMC . . . . I understand that other owners have the same problem . . . . Also with different years not just 2017 . . . . Please help me with this problem as I always travel alone & am afraid of something terrible happening while on the road . . . . Thank you in advance . . . . Laura schwalbe . . . . Laroc325@aol. Com.

When vehicle trying to shift vehicle into park error message occurs stating 'shift to park' prior to being able to turn off vehicle. Happens multiple times with same error message even when you believe you have the car in park it's difficult to believe that or take the risk of it not being in park and an accident happening.

The side detection alarms kept beeping regardless of any location on the road or in my own driveway. Now I have a "service side detection module failure" warning on the dashboard. Estimates on repair have been in the $800 range and after having spoken to many GMC owners, several have had the same problem. Some have made the repairs, others have not due to the cost.

Transmission gear shifter displays shift to park error message, so that I can't turn off the vehicle. Vehicle stays active when you try to get out and won't lock.

Previous complaint of shift to park on 06/13/19 voq 11219862 at mileage 36270. On 12/5/21, approx miles 62099 same problem with shift to park. Was scheduled for service on 12/06/21 at adams Buick GMC in richmond, ky and mentioned the problem and previous complaint. Was told that it had been over a year ago but that they could fix it and charge me $152 for part & $315 for labor. It was less that 26000 miles driven since the last issue. After last complaint, the dealer contacted GMC and the part was replaced at no cost under bulletin for concern # 5 145420 and they replaced the transmission control assembly. This is an ongoing problem with GMC and I don't think that every 26000 miles I should have to pay to replace the same part when GMC knows it is a problem by the numerous complaints. In fact while I was getting my vehicle serviced, I spoke to another lady there who had the same problem with her vehicle. Had I not caught the message, I probably would have had to replace my battery or my vehicle could have rolled into the house. There were no warning lamps or messages prior. GMC needs to step up to the plate and issue a recall because they have numerous vehicles with the same problem. My vehicle has undergone this malfunction twice and I find it unacceptable and know that I can't afford to pay $467 every 26000 miles for an issue that GMC is clearly aware of but won't address because no one has been killed by the issue as of this date to my knowledge, but it's going to happen sooner or later if the issue is not addressed properly.

Shift to park error code along with several other error codes including no remote detected that have continually and intermittentantly appeared since my car was at 16 k miles. My car has been in the shop over 10 times and these problems continue to return. My car won't shut off correctly, and this drains the battery. On 2 different occasions I was locked inside my car, unable to start it. Both of those times the outside temperature was over 100 degrees, and I almost had to break my window to exit and survive. I frantically pushed several buttons, trying to start the car, and luckily something tripped so I could open my car. The dealership replaced my battery twice before 31 k miles. They have replaced 2 different fobs when the car didn't recognize them. The dealership has replaced the transmission control assembly, the body control module, the fuel injector, the immobolizer control module, the brake control module, and my car has currently been in the shop for over 3 weeks as they may also need to replace the instrument control module and hvac module due to those error codes. My car is at 46 k miles and has been in the shop 3 different times since 39 k (less than 10 k miles) all for similar problems. Thankfully I bought the extended warranty that will expire in 2 years. Something is draining the battery and GMC cannot or will not address the problem. There are similar documented cases: https://lemonlawexperts. Com/gm-shift-to-park-recall-update/#:~:text=according%20to%20nhtsa%2c%20gm%20has,several%20model%20year%20acadia%20vehicles. And https://gmauthority. Com/blog/2020/05/GMC-acadia-shift-to-park-class-action-lawsuit-filed-in-texas/ please help to make GMC resolve this complicated problem! I now keep a tool in my car to break a window if I ever get locked in. I also keep my aaa membership active as I have had to get my car jumped several times. I do have videos of the problem, but cannot send a mp4 file.

Vehicle was purchased used in June 2020 issue #1 after shifting car into park, display will indicate p for park , but also says vehicle is not in park. Since you are not sure if it actually in park and to eliminate this display, you need to restart the vehicle, go thru the gears again and then back into park. This happens several times a week with having to restart and park again up to 10 times before the vehicle will register it is in park. I have read there is a technical service bulletin on this issue as well as a case to get GMC to issue a recall. This is a serious issue because you are unaware if the vehicle transmission is actually in park. Having to restart and continually shift to park is time consuming and quite frankly a nuisance. At this point in time, the only way of correction, other than restarting up to ten times, is to click the gear shift several times after placing in park. This will work 5/10 times. Issue #2 - vehicle does not always detect remote. Have replaced battery in remote 5 times and will last approximately 8-10 weeks. At times, when the vehicle has been driven and is placed into park, the display will read no remote detected. Have also placed remote into pocket into console and will still receive the same no remote detected. Although there is never any indication battery is low or dead on remote, this is also the only possible correction we have found. However, we do believe there must be another correction for this issue.

After putting the car in park and turning it off a �shift into park� message displays on screen leaving the car still on. Very dangerous when I always have my 3 kids with me at all times. We have to keep messing with it until it goes away before we can safely get out and feel confident its ok to leave the car.

The vehicle gives a �shift to park� warning on dashboard after vehicle ignition button. This warning shows up every time the vehicle is accepted to shut off. It takes several minutes and tries to get the message to go away and the vehicle to completely shut off. The only successful way of getting the message and vehicle to completely shut off is by wiggling or shaking the gear shifter until it goes away. I have been stranded with children in the vehicle for concerns that the vehicle will roll with the vehicle not registering that it is in park. After researching the vehicle issue further it has been found that other owners with the same year and model have had the same shift to park message and have had their vehicle roll on it's own. The vehicle has gone to the dealership to be fixed but unfortunately because my warranty has expired I am being held responsible for paying to fix this safety issue.

Shifting car into park and the car does not register that it is in park. Display reads "shift to park" and lights do not shut off. Car will sit for 15 or more minutes before the car registers it is actually in park. I try to start it, shut it off, of start it, put in gear and then switch back to park and shut it off but still reads "shift to park". Battery is going to die if this keeps happening. GMC should be responsible for doing a complete recall on this, especially since they are aware of the problem. I have been stranded in parking lots waiting for this car to correct itself. This has been going on for over 4 years.

Our car, a 2017 Acadia, will not auto start, alarms go off randomly, theft warning comes on and hood open warning comes on every time car is started. . Our determination is the hood latch from other forums which is what the garage also determined. We were told only trucks were being replaced not the cars. We don't feel that this is something we should be paying for since it is out there that many have the problem. The latch causes the theft problem which eventually causes the car not to advance in speed (connecting to theft) and could cause death on a major highway when all cars are going 60 plus and your car won't move. Some people were unable to start their cars. This is major and should be corrected with a recall. This might not seem major but it can be. We became leery in driving the vehicle. I have a teen driver and the hood open warning comes on many times throughout a drive. You can clear it and it reappears whether moving or not. This has been going on with us for a good month. Again, this happens while stationary and moving. It can come on at any speed which is the scary part. We have limited our drive and drive at a controllable speed but that doesn't make it safer. Once we were stationary when the alarms went off and could not clear. All the warnings came on. Couldn't unlock car doors with remote. We should not have to pay for this fix! no recall should have to have a death or injury to become important!.

On December 29, 2020, I was going to visit a friend about 5:30pm. They have a driveway that is a downward slope. I put my car (2017 GMC Acadia denali) in park and turned it off. I stepped out and locked the doors. I was talking to my friend's husband for a couple minutes, asking if she was home and if my car was okay where it was parked. I wanted to make sure he was not leaving and was blocked in. I then started walking to the house. I was going to walk in the grass and just go to the front door, but since it started to snow, I walked down the driveway. My vehicle then started rolling down the driveway and knocked me over. It proceeded to drive over me. I know I fell on my stomach, as my hands and knees are pretty bruised and scraped up. As the vehicle proceeded to keep going, I was pushed on my back with the tire resting on my right hip. The gentleman ran up and tried to push the vehicle off of me, but could not push it up hill. Luckily the keys and my phone fell out of my pocket and he was able to start the vehicle and drive it off of me. I know at some point I did hit my head, because the back is really tender today. I did go to urgent care to get x-rays because I do not want to go to the hospital with all the covid cases here in st joseph county. They did scrub all the rocks and dirt out of my back and hip and cleaned up my knees. My ex rays came back with no broken bones and I did not have blood in my urine, but they still recommended that I go to the emergency room. I am not able to walk very well and my hip is very swollen. I contacted the dealership because my car was just in the shop because the shift to park light kept coming on in October and I have my repair order that says the problem was fixed on October 22, 2020, which obviously it was not.

My 2017 GMC Acadia shut off lost all power for a couple mins at a busy intersection in September 2020. All power restore after several minutes and attempts to restart. I took in to the dealership however they could not duplicate. Now on the 28th of December 2020, the vehicle lost all power again at the same busy intersection! no power at all! could not even turn my hazard lights on to warn traffic that was coming up behind me on the highway! the vehicle remained like this for 10-15 minutes! couldn't even have anyone push it off the road because we couldn't shift it to neutral either. I took it back to the dealership as gm advised and they still could not duplicate. The dealership tried but cannot make sense of why this keeps occurring randomly. I had my small children in the car this time and we are lucky we did not get rear ended! I fear that my family is not safe in this vehicle.

When shifting into park, getting a shift to park error. Have to jiggle the shifter to get the car to turn off. Sometimes it won’t turn off. About a month after purchasing used in 2020 my wife put the car into park in our drive way, the car rolled backwards with my son in it and the passenger side door open. The passenger side door hit a tree and folded the door backward toward the body. Door had to be replaced. Luckily no one was injured. At the time we did not know about the shifter issue. Secondly our transmission has now gone out with only 80k miles on the car. This is another reoccurring issue that GMC has ignored with a know manufacturer default in the transmission.

Park to shift warning when trying to shut off vehicle. Problem "fixed" 12/28/2108 but resurfaced again October 2020. Now "out of warranty" many posts with other owners experiencing recurring issue. Does not seem to be a consistent fix. New shift mecahnism, new wiring harness and "bending" the metal contact point that depresses the switch to eliminate the warning "lockout" are the most common fixes. I believe this widespread of an issue should be addressed by GMC instead of burdening owners of affected vehicles with the costs of "trying" different fixes. Thank you.

Shift to park not engaging into park position,it was stationary.

This issue has happened to me atleast 4 times in the last 8 months . I will go to start my car and it will show �no remote access � then completely shut off or drain the battery . I ha w had to have my car towed 3 times and then one time after 45 minutes it just turned on . This is only a 2017 acdua abs I have only had it a year and a half . It's had leaking heater fluid issues as well .

The "shift to park" warning message shows up and won't permit car to be shutoff. Vehicle is stopped and at rest and is placed in "park" as designated by shift lever light and dashboard indicators, and the auto door unlock feature activated correctly when placed in park. On 9/21/20, it took me about 10 minutes of trying different positions and by physically moving vehicle to a different parking space . Problem occurs sporadically. This same problem has occurred a total of about 5 times in the last 2 weeks but not as severe as this last time. Vehicle was previously serviced 11/2019, when vehicle was under warranty with 10,062 miles for the same issue in which the dealer replaced a shifter harness. Now, 9/21/20, 10 months later, and 12,400 miles, the same problem has re-emerged. The vehicle is now out of warranty. This is obviously a manufacturing or engineering defect.

When I park my car, and the gear is in park, when I try to turn the car off, I receive continuance notifications stating "shift to park" and can not fully turn the vehicle off. The issue has been continuous and at times can take up to five minutes before I can fully shut the vehicle off. The most recent event was 9/17/2020. I have several videos of the issue occurring. This is a known issue with the dealership but they will not fix it on this vehicle since there is no recall and is out of bumper-to-bumper warranty.

I get an error message when trying park my car stating "action required, shift to park". Display shows car in park and shifting console in park. Sometimes takes me multiple times shifting and reshifting, and driving back around to get the car to shut off. This morning took 15 minutes of trying to get the car to park and shut off.

I'm having issues of getting an error message on my dashboard of �shift to park� when the SUV is already in park. I've had this randomly over the past few weeks, but figured I'd just mention it to the dealer at the next appt. Generally, I restart it, move the gear shifter, and then it goes into park. Saturday, the gear shifter showed I was in park, the error message came on, and I started rolling backwards! I was thankful no one got hurt, but I'm concerned that one of my kids could have been behind me and this happen. I put on the break, had to turn off the car, and then restart it, move the shifter before it would recognize being in park.

The vehicle displays "shift to park" when turning off vehicle even though the transmission is already in park. We have tried many times to restart the vehcie and shift the vehicle. As designed, the keys must stay with the vehicle, so the occupant either has to leave the keys unsecured or stay with the vehicle. I've had to unhook the battery because the electronics will not shut off when in this state. We have had instances where someone has to stay with the vehicle for periods of time. An online search shows many complaints about this issue and no definitive fix.

The horn on my 2017 GMC Acadia is very hard to push. It takes both hands. And is still very hard to push. If I had to activate my horn to avoid an accident, I would not be able to in time. And I have to take both of my hand of the steering wheel to push it. This is a very bad design and should be corrected.

I will shift my car to park and then I go to shut off the car and I get a message that pops up saying "shift to park" I can not lock my car and wont shut off filly until I can get it to shift into park fully . Vehicle was stationary when I shifted to park it had happened about 10 to 25 times in the last month.

Car gives "shift to park" notification when car is shut off even though it clearly shows it is in park. Car will not fully shut off. Have to turn car back on and wiggle shifter or put it in reverse/drive and then back in to park for the car to fully turn off.

The vehicle will show to be in park, but the vehicle will say it is not in park enabling me from being able to shut the vehicle down. There seems to be a shift assembly issue. I've only had the vehicle 3 months but this has become a reoccurring issue over the last week.

Place the vehicle into park. Go to shut vehicle off and the dash tells you to shift to park. You have to keep shifting in and out of park till it registers its in park other the electronics don't turn off and if not parked on level ground vehicle will roll. I park in a parking garage and if I wouldn't have been paying attention my vehicle when starting to roll could have easily hit another car or even worse a person. My vehicle is going into shop today so if documents are need I will have them.

I bought my 2017 GMC Acadia on August 3, 2020. When I got home I put my vehicle in park and on the screen it said "shift to park. " I had parked on a hill and I thought maybe that's what had caused it. So for the next couple weeks it has done the same thing multiple times. I am usually parked and shifting it into park. I have been late to work because I am constantly fighting with the shifter so my car will shut off. I have googled it and there a ton of reviews saying that they are having the same problem as me. I am very disappointed that nothing is being done about this. I paid a lot of money for my vehicle and I'm making a payment on it as well. I have to small children and it's a safety hazard because some has made comments that their vehicle rolls backwards. Something needs to be fixed. Some have had it fixed and two months later it happens again. I have called the GMC dealership near me, corporate, and the dealership I bought it from and they are all looking into the problem. We, as in the people that bought the vehicle, shouldn't have to pay for a mistake the GMC clearly knows about.

When you put the car in park it often won’t recognize it and will display a message on the console stating “shift to park”. When it does this you’re not able to turn your car completely off so you just have to continue messing around with the shifter or turning the car back on again by pressing the break until it finally goes off. This happens at least once daily and can take upwards of 5 minutes sometimes to finally recognize the car is in park so you can turn the car off. We’ve tried leaving the car running before when this message is displayed when it’s been parked in our garage thinking it would eventually realize it’s in park and shutoff but after 10 minutes of running it still hadn’t recognized it was in park. We called our dealership about this and they told us that they get a lot of complaints about this issue.

My 2017 GMC Acadia with 40,000 miles on it has been saying �shift to park� when I try to turn it off. The only way to get it to turn off and be safely in park is to continuously turn it back on shift to reverse or drive move the car a few feet and try again. It continues to take multiple times and the only thing to �fix it� GMC claims is to replace a lever and that takes 5-6 hours at 135$ an hour and 2 150$ parts. It is not covered under warranty and is a huge safety issue as you either cannot get the vehicle into park and have it safely stuck or it will continue to stay on and possible roll away. There are hundreds of thousands of forums and posts about this issue and even the people who got it �fixed� still have issues. It is a safety issue and GMC needs to figure out what is causing it how to fix it and do an emergency recall if they cannot figure it out then they need to fully recall the 17-18 Acadias and provide replacement vehicles as this is a major safety risk. I cannot be stuck at a place during a global pandemic because my car is stuck due to an issue that GMC cannot fix.