2016 GMC YUKON XL — Complaint #2178446
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NHTSA Complaint about FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS filed February 19, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2178446 (ODI reference 11719051) concerns a 2016 GMC YUKON XL and was filed on February 19, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 11, 2026. The report was geocoded to Nevada based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as forward collision avoidance: warnings, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same GMC YUKON XL cohort independently describe similar forward collision avoidance: warnings failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2016 GMC YUKON XL shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I was test driving the vehicle after some and as I was test, driving it, the steering lot up on me. Luckily, I was entering a residential area when it occurred down the street from my residency; in which I was able to drive it to my residency, during that short ride, you could smell a burning smell coming out along with some crackling noises. I had to get the vehicle towed a week later to the mechanic shop where they fix one of my engine problems and verified that I needed a new power steering unit and gave me a quote, I couldnât afford the word and started doing research and came across the recall for the power steering within my vehicle year, make and model. I replaced the power steering unit, but Iâm having a difficult time celebrating the system..
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2178446 |
| ODI Number | 11719051 |
| Date Filed | February 19, 2026 |
| Failure Date | January 11, 2026 |
| VIN | 1GKS2GKC6GR |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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