GMC: 26 published Texas lemon law decisions
Every published TxDMV decision naming GMC, for case-years 2014-2026, with what each order did and a link to the order itself.
This is not a census of Texas lemon vehicles, and no number on this page is a defect rate. Confidential settlements, manufacturer buybacks agreed before a hearing, and complaints withdrawn along the way never enter this corpus at all and are structurally invisible to it. What is counted here is contested proceedings that reached a published decision, which is a small and non-random slice of everything that goes wrong with a vehicle in Texas.
A manufacturer with more decisions here is not "more of a lemon" than one with fewer. It may simply have sold far more units in Texas, or its owners may be likelier to push a dispute to a contested hearing rather than settle. There is no sales or registration denominator behind these counts, so the division that would turn them into a rate cannot be done, and this site does not publish one.
What these 26 orders did
Counts of published proceedings naming GMC. These are not shares of anything: there is no figure here for how many vehicles GMC sold in Texas, so no proportion computed from this table would mean what it appears to mean.
| What the order did | Decisions |
|---|---|
| Repurchase ordered | 4 |
| Repair ordered | 7 |
| Dismissed | 15 |
Which vehicles these decisions were about
Make and model exactly as the source documents print them, so a model that two orders name differently appears twice rather than being silently merged. A model appearing more often is not a defect rate.
| Vehicle | Decisions |
|---|---|
| GMC Sierra | 5 |
| GMC Sierra 1500 | 4 |
| GMC Terrain | 3 |
| GMC Yukon XL | 3 |
| GMC Sierra 2500 | 2 |
| GMC Yukon Denali | 2 |
| GMC Acadia | 1 |
| GMC Hummer EV SUV | 1 |
| GMC Savana | 1 |
| GMC Sierra 1500 SLT | 1 |
| GMC Sierra 3500 | 1 |
| GMC Sierra 3500 HD | 1 |
| GMC Yukon XL Denali | 1 |
By vehicle model year
The model year of the vehicle at issue, not the year the decision issued.
| Model year | Decisions |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2020 | 3 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2016 | 3 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2014 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 |
Every GMC decision
26 recordsNewest decision first. Every row links the source document it was read from.
Source PDF 2021 GMC Sierra 1500
transmission failure, vibration causing engine to stop Dismissed
Source PDF 2020 GMC Sierra
engine stalling at idle, electrical and shifting faults Repair ordered
Source PDF 2020 GMC Sierra 2500
Bluetooth and voice-recognition system malfunction Repurchase ordered
Source PDF 2020 GMC Yukon Denali
transmission stuck in gear, failure to start Dismissed
Source PDF 2019 GMC Sierra 1500
engine squealing noise and OnStar/electrical malfunction Repair ordered
Source PDF 2018 GMC Sierra
hard transmission shift between first and second gears Dismissed
Source PDF 2017 GMC Sierra 3500 HD
repeated check-engine, ABS, and traction-control warning lights Dismissed
Source PDF 2016 GMC Yukon XL
instrument gauge glitch and intermittent no-start Repair ordered
Source PDF 2016 GMC Sierra 2500
steering wheel vibration/shimmy at highway speeds Repair ordered
Source PDF 2016 GMC Sierra 1500 SLT
intermittent transmission jolts/jerks and knocking Dismissed
Source PDF 2015 GMC Acadia
vibration at highway speeds, navigation/IntelliLink malfunctions, steering column noise Dismissed
Source PDF 2015 GMC Yukon XL Denali
memory seat malfunction and electrical power failure Repair ordered
Source PDF 2014 GMC Sierra 1500
highway-speed vibration and hop, driver's seat track, clicking when turning, hard transmission shifting Dismissed
Source PDF 2014 GMC Sierra 1500
popping noise from front dash; highway-speed vibration Repair ordered
The honest use of this page is to read the orders. Every row links the document it came from, and those documents say what happened in a specific dispute over a specific vehicle: what the defect was, how many repair attempts there were, and what the examiner ordered.
The dishonest use is to treat the number at the top as a quality score. It counts contested proceedings that reached a published decision, which is a function of how many vehicles a manufacturer sells in Texas, how its warranty department handles disputes before they get that far, and how likely its owners are to push a case to hearing rather than accept an offer. Those are three different things, and none of them is the reliability of the vehicle.