general problems of the 2012 GMC Yukon

Yesterday while unloading the rear of our 2021 GMC Yukon denali the tailgate came down on me without warning and with force. I googled to see what might have caused this to happen and it stated that the struts might be worn out. (I am having that checked out today) fortunately, I am a 6 foot 220 pound man and was not hurt but just the day before my 14 year old, 100 pound grand daughter was taking things things out of the rear of the vehicle. If the rear door would have come down on her it would have been a lot worse.

Dash is cracked on passenger side airbag.

Cracks in the dash in two places. Next to the passenger air bag and on the curve above the instrucment panel on the drivers side.

I was driving and slowed down upon approaching speed bumps and going over speed bump my dashboard cover cracked. There was no warning after it cracked the more I drove the more it cracked I am currently buying a dashboard cover to go over the cracked dashboard.

Several cracks have developed on the dashboard in front of the drivers position and by the passenger airbag location. The dashboard cover vibrates when going over rough roads and I am concerned that the vibration will initiate the passenger airbag which is also on recall with no date established to bring the car in for a replacement airbag.

I purchased this vehicle new in 2012 ,it has 32,000 miles on ,it one owner, one driver, always in the garage. Yesterday the drivers side door handle literally came off in my hand. It is composed of a flimsy piece of plastic which broke and rendered the door unusable. This is an extremely dangerous situation if this were to happen and you cannot access the vehicle due to a wreck or access your children or simply get into your car in an area where you need to get in quickly. This is a well-known problem with gm ,in fact they sell replacement door handles next to the air filters like any other frequently replaced parts. I find this highly unacceptable that there has not been a recall, it is an obvious safety issue! when you cannot open the door of your car , one could be stuck in the car, or stuck out of the car, to no fault of your own. This issue also happens with the interior door opening mechanism. Now I live in fear that another handle is going to come flying off of my car and I am going to be stuck somewhere without access to my vehicle. I am an older person and crawling through to access the car is not possible and extremely unsafe. I believe if a person pays in excess of $60k for an american vehicle, they should be assured that safety components like door handles do not routinely fail. Please help. Thank you.

Dashboard cracked, afraid that if airbag deploys shards of dashboard will come flying at both driver and passenger. It started as a little crack, than expanded across the entire dashboard.

For no apparent reason the dashboard is cracking. It started on driver side now there is another one near airbag and by speaker. This vehicle is well maintained and there should be no excuse for this.

Dash panel cracked via design defect. Damage has spread and poses a safety risk if airbags are deployed.