Recall Register

GMC Yukon XL 1500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the GMC Yukon XL 1500, model years 2000 to 2012. NHTSA has 309 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 13 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20000
  2. 20010
  3. 20020
  4. 20030
  5. 20040
  6. 20050
  7. 20060
  8. 20070
  9. 20080
  10. 20090
  11. 20100
  12. 20112
  13. 20120
GMC Yukon XL 1500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2012 GMC Yukon XL 1500 NHTSA page0521%
2011 GMC Yukon XL 150021250%31,305
2010 GMC Yukon XL 1500 NHTSA page0834%
2009 GMC Yukon XL 1500 NHTSA page01146%
2008 GMC Yukon XL 1500 NHTSA page01876%
2007 GMC Yukon XL 1500060252%
2006 GMC Yukon XL 1500 NHTSA page0521%
2005 GMC Yukon XL 1500 NHTSA page024101%
2004 GMC Yukon XL 1500036151%
2003 GMC Yukon XL 1500063265%
2002 GMC Yukon XL 1500 NHTSA page02397%
2001 GMC Yukon XL 1500029122%
2000 GMC Yukon XL 1500 NHTSA page01563%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

407 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

GMC Yukon XL 1500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System189.277
Air Bags95.839
Service Brakes83.534
Structure81.133
Service Brakes, Hydraulic68.828
Power Train61.425
Unknown or Other61.425
Engine51.621
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)36.915
Visibility34.414

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the GMC Yukon XL 1500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2011, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the GMC Yukon XL 1500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2009, with 38 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

GMC: all 130 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. GMC Yukon XL 1500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/gmc/yukon-xl-1500/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS LLC

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which GMC Yukon XL 1500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2011 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which GMC Yukon XL 1500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 63 of the 309 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the GMC Yukon XL 1500 name?
Electrical System: 189.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 95.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes: 83.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the GMC Yukon XL 1500?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.