general problems of the 2007 GMC Yukon

The contact owns a 2007 GMC Yukon. The contact stated that she had initially received a recall notice for NHTSA campaign number: 21v050000(air bags). The vehicle was taken to the dealer and had the recall serviced. Close to a year after the repair, a vertical crack began to form over the passenger side air bag where the recall service was performed. The vehicle was taken back to the dealer; she was informed that the repair would be an out of pocket expense. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The vehicle had yet to be repaired. The failure mileage was 113,600.

2007 GMC Yukon. Interior door handles. Chrome plating has separated from the top where handle is grabbed. Handles are razor sharp and care is needed when opening door otherwise injury can and has occurred.

My 2007 GMC Yukon's chrome interior door handles are peeling. A CO-worker of mine and girlfriend were cut by the peeling plastic. Both cuts were deeper than your average paper cut and was very painful. This was on the passenger door, then I was cut on the driver side weeks later. GMC would not replace as my mileage is out of warrant and they wanted to charge $340 to replace!! extremely costly and frustrating for a dangerous non-repair.

We own a 2007 GMC Yukon denali. My 8 year old son's thumb on his right had was trapped in the hinge on the rear passenger door, as he was exiting the vehicle. While he was exiting the front passenger seat, as my other children opened of the rear passenger door his thumb was nearly completely severed by the hinge. The hinge is completely exposed, there is no safety mechanism, cover, or preventive feature. The hinge combined with the weight of the door, moves the hinge opening from roughly and inch opening to a zero clearance area. The hinges cross over top of each other with the two edge planes of each part acting similar to a bolt cutter or tree limb cutter. One of the edge planes has a relief cut which acts as a trap as very little movement of the door eliminates the option of pulling back a finger or small hand. If you were to sit in the front passenger seat, open door and exit as one normally would, simply dropping your arm straight down puts your hand(fingers) at risk. The only reason his thumb was not severed is because the children exiting the car stopped opening the door and closed it so he could take his thumb out. Had the door opened all the way his thumb would have been lost. As it remains we spent several hours in an emergency room, he had to have 4 stitches and an xray. Because it was on the joint no bones where broken. A terrible accident that very easily could have been prevented.

I recently bought a used 2007 GMC Yukon xl. A passenger noticed the chrome on the door handle was peeling and very sharp. I noticed the drivers handle is just starting to peel. I saw an investigation is currently being conducted.

Interior door handle coating wearing off, became sharp and lacerated my index finger.

The silver covering on the interior door handles of my 2007 Yukon's handles are peeling and are very sharp at the seams. My entire family has cut ourselves several times since we have owned the vehicle.

Inside door handles are peeling on driver and passenger side doors. As driver or passenger get out of the vehicle the ridged plastic begins to cut the skin in a paper cut fashion. This issue started o/a 1. 5 years after purchase of vehicle (depending on use). Parts were replaced at the dealership at customers expense. Old parts are maintained at the dealership.

Interior chrome plated door handles, plastic chrome splits open and cuts your hand.

Silver covering where it was molded is peeling and has cut me & my wife. This has happened too all inside doors.

The 2007 GMC Yukon (& Chevrolet tahoe) have a significant safety issue / problem. The instrument panel gauges are very difficult to read in daytime (sunny) conditions. Most of the time during daytime/sunny conditions you can not just glance at the instruments to read them. You have to divert your attention for 2 or more seconds to read even the speedometer (which is the easiest to read). All instruments have black faces with white markings which are legible day and night. The daytime visual recognition problem is caused by two conditions. 1) red pointers that do not contrast sufficiently with the black face, and 2) dash cowling shading/glare problems. The top left (oil pressure) and top right (voltmeter) gauges are almost impossible to read. The bottom right (coolant temp) is very difficult to read. The bottom left (fuel) is difficult to very difficult to read. The two large center gauges (tachometer and speedometer) are difficult to read. The time / attention required to read these gauges presents a safety hazard because you are forced to take your eyes off the road for far to long (or to keep repeating looks to check your speed / fuel status. I recently purchased a 2007 GMC Yukon and made a road trip of 3000 miles. Two drivers had similar visual recognition problems during daylight hours. I gave up even trying to read the other gauges. If you wear sunglasses you have to lift them to try to read the gauges. There are some things you can do (have to do) to lessen the visual recognition problem. 1) turn on the lights (provides minimal dash illumination), 2) close the sunroof shade (reduces glare), and 3) place you hand above your eyes as a shield (reduces glare). I have talked to the gm dealer to see if they could increase illumination on the dash lighting. (that would still mean I would have to turn on the lights during the day. ) bottom line - they can't do anything - they can't re-engineer gm's product.