2014 GMC Acadia: won't start

Filed Mar 14, 2020 · Airbags, Electrical · 84,000 miles · OH

First, 2 days after we purchased the car, the engine light came on. Then the front camera needed service and the side warnings stopped. Then the seat heaters quit. The fobs both quit working, would. It properly unlock the doors. We got an airbag needs service warning. A check gages warning. A service tire monitoring system warning. Finally, the engine locks up and won't start, turn over, or anything. Several hours later, the car starts. Then it goes through the whole cycle again over the next few weeks til it doesn't start again and leaves us stranded. Again. The first time, the mcdaniel gmc service department changed out the battery and believed that would fix it. We paid $190 for that. It didn't work. It went through the same cycle again within a month. Now they expect us to pay to have he module fixed, even though they knew there was a recall for it when hey sold it to us.

Filed Apr 22, 2019 · Electrical · 72,000 miles · MI

On one, approximately 200-mile trip last year, the electrical system in our acadia completely went out (including all guages, turn signals, etc.) three separate times. We were driving on interstate roadways, and the vehicle could still be driven. The system rebooted each time after a few minutes. Ultimately, my wife ended up stranded as the vehicle would not start due to electrical system failure after she had parked it during a separate trip. Our gm dealership informed us that the rear object detection modules had corroded, and that "everyone has this problem." the corrosion caused a cascade failure or the entire system, which is definitely a safety hazard. Gm replaces these modules with non-corroding ones now, after we paid $992.52 to have them replaced. I contacted autumn at gm customer service, and she said that there is now special coverage for this problem that began on 4/2/19. However, our vehicle is over the 80,000-mile warranty for this problem.

Filed Jul 17, 2017 · Electrical · IL

"takata recall" crank issue. Car wouldn't start after driving to local rural king. Dealer brought charge pack and got it going. Will be taking it in for testing. Acadia was parked and locked before entering store wouldn't start on return to car to leave.

Filed Nov 13, 2014 · Engine, Steering · 10,000 miles · NJ

During evening rush hour, the car stalled out completely while going approximately 75 MPH on a mild incline on the highway. Gas gauge said approximately a quarter tank of gas. All power steering was lost, but I was able to drive the car to the shoulder of the freeway. A service truck put approximately 5 gallons of gas into the tank, but the car would not start and I had to be towed to dealership. Head of gm dealer service said nothing wrong with car and they could not replicate problem, and that the thing with this car is that you can't drive it on an incline with less of a quarter tank of gas or it might stall. Sales rep at dealer shared similar story of 2014 acadia stalling on him but as he told us, he was fortunate he was only going 25 MPH.

Filed May 16, 2014 · Acceleration, Engine · 4,010 miles · PA

While I was driving my car in traffic, the green car indicator light came on and slowed down my speed to a complete stop. I pulled over and allowed cars to go around me as I tried to restart the vehicle, 3 times, and it would not start. I called onstar to see if they could do a car check and told me nothing was wrong. After an hour of being stuck on the side of the road with a car that would not start, onstar got me a tow truck and towed me to the dealer ship. The dealer ship at first could not figure out what was wrong with the car and tried to see if it was the indicator light, after 3 days the called me and informed me that the battery had a bad cell which had caused the cars system to shut down immediately while I was driving. They gave me a new battery and that cleared up that problem. I am very concerned with this happening to someone on a highway, imagine if someone could not control there car and speed while doing 70 MPH in the fast lane, this could easily cause a car crash!!! I was fortunate to be in a neighborhood only going 25 MPH but it still could have caused a accident since there was cars behind me. It was a scary situation as I realized I had no control of my car, please make people aware of this because I have heard of gm have more bad batteries!