2010 GMC Terrain — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 426 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Engine116 (27.2%)
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)51 (12.0%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 2011–2020.
• Electrical system48 (11.3%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2010–2013.
• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)45 (10.6%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2010–2017.
• Air bags (restraint system)24 (5.6%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2015–2023.
• Stability & traction control22 (5.2%)

Other / uncategorized: 16 classifications (3.8%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (6,188 records, model years 2010–2026) are most frequently classified under: engine, visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors) and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).
• Manufacturer communications (22,363 records, model years 2010–2026) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 239reports included a mileage
• 78,978average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2010 1,952 records for 2010 1,952
2. 2011 2,154 records for 2011 2,154
3. 2012 2,214 records for 2012 2,214
4. 2013 2,302 records for 2013 2,302
5. 2014 1,998 records for 2014 1,998
6. 2015 1,875 records for 2015 1,875
7. 2016 1,387 records for 2016 1,387
8. 2017 1,197 records for 2017 1,197
9. 2018 1,567 records for 2018 1,567
10. 2019 1,188 records for 2019 1,188
11. 2020 1,040 records for 2020 1,040
12. 2021 731 records for 2021 731
13. 2022 588 records for 2022 588
14. 2023 493 records for 2023 493
15. 2024 419 records for 2024 419
16. 2025 338 records for 2025 338
17. 2026 189 records for 2026 189

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 10mention a crash
• 12mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 3
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 1,651
• Investigations NHTSA 3
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 5
• Owner complaints NHTSA 290

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0016 in 10 records
• P0008 in 8 records
• P0017 in 8 records
• P0018 in 8 records
• P0011 in 5 records
• P0442 in 5 records
• P2097 in 5 records
• P0009 in 4 records
• P0014 in 4 records
• P0019 in 4 records
• P0089 in 4 records
• P0300 in 4 records

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.