Exterior Lighting Related Problems of the 2019 GMC Terrain

Table 1 shows one common exterior lighting related problems of the 2019 GMC Terrain.

Table 1. Exterior Lighting related problems of GMC Terrain

Problem Category Number of Problems
Exterior Lighting problems
5

Exterior Lighting problem #1

Headlights flicker when auto stop releases and clicks back on to move the vehicle. This happens when it wants too but usually at the same time service parking brake will pop up, followed by steering is reduced, drive with care. . Lets see what else. Carplay no longer works. No sound. Sd card error pops up. Car will not play music through a cord but will via bluetooth, but charges a phone. Onstar light flickering between green and red until I turned off power to the liftgate. (manually clicking over knob to disable) headlights flickering can cause accidents. Sure hope there's no epileptics out. Yes, orielly. I have documentation, photos, videos, take your pick I'm here to help. Not evaluated at dealer or mechanic, who can afford labor rates? this has been happening for months and I will continue to report till something is done or lives are cared about.

Exterior Lighting problem #2

When parked in home driveway brake lights came on with no one in car or driven during the day. Only way to turn off brake is to remote start & then cut off engine with fob. Dealer diagnostic unable to find issue & condition didn't occur when at their location.

Exterior Lighting problem #3

I was driving at nighttime and my head lights cut off. . They were in auto light mode. I read that GMC knows about some sort of issue with this but only covers repairs up to 150k miles. My car is 156k miles. There was no warning lights and no indication anything was wrong. Luckily I was the only care on my side of the highway and was able to slam on the brakes and come to a complete stop. I turned the car off and then turned the head lights to manual and they can back on. A few hours later when I got home, I let the car cool off and turned the headlight back to auto and turned the car on and the worked.

Exterior Lighting problem #4

The car cuts off during driving and when u crack it back up the dash light do not work. But then the dealership said its a known issues but the car just needs to be reset. . . . . . But cutting off while driving can be dangerous. It's something a car should not do.

Exterior Lighting problem #5

While driving the car cut off on us. Started the car and the dash lights were on. Also navigation stopped working. Took the car to bellamy strickland and they said no issues was found. Got the car back 12/02_2021 car seems to be ok at the moment. Melissa at bellamy stated it could have been a computer glitch. Car only has 20k miles on it.


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