My wife was driving on the highway to work when it was raining. Both of the wipers stopped working all of a sudden causing her to not be able to see out of the windshield. When she got home that night I could see that the linkage arm had came off the ball joint.
2016 GMC Terrain visibility complaints
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I have a 2016 GMC Terrain, garage kept and seldom driven, with ONLY 53,260 miles on it. Last night while leaving the movie Theatre in the RAIN my WIPERS stopped working while in motion. I had to drive home in the rain unable to see!!! Looked on site and saw where recalls were issued for 2015’s but not 2016’s, although I’m reading numerous complaints for the same occurring on my model suv. Can GMC provide some insight into this?
While driving in the rain, my windshield wipers stopped working. No lights on, nothing showing in my GMC app. I've noticed many others with this same issue, and am aware of the recall on the 2014-2015 models. GMC should extend the recall to cover the 2016 as well since this is a known issue.
I was driving while it was raining. My windshield wipers were on and functioning without issue. I heard a noise and my windshield wipers had stopped moving and now they do not work. I called several places to schedule an appt for my car/wipers to be assessed and repaired. I was told by 3 different shops that a recall had been issued for the year adjacent to my car and my issue sounded like the recall issue.
Was coming back from a hospital and it started to rain and had the wipers on and all of a sudden they stopped working! When I got home I tried to see if it was a fuse and it wasn’t! Called my mechanic who looked at it today and I needed a whole new wiper mtr/ w/ linkage! That was a road hazard and never should have happened on my GMC Cost me $430 to repair and I feel like GMC should reimburse me!
A severe rain down pour started, I turned on my front windshield wipers, and they swiped about twice, than stopped completely, in a vertical position. I could not see, and had to try to get to the side of the road, to pull over to safety. This was extremely dangerous, and from what I am reading, happens frequently to GMC Terrains. Apparently, there was a recall for 2013-2015, seems the 2016 needs added!! No warning lights are on in the car. No failure report via my GMC app.
It was raining so turned on the windshield wipers while driving home and they just stopped working. I had to stop driving until the rain stopped.
Both windshield wipers completely stopped without any warning in a heavy down pour while driving. I could not see to pull over or continue driving.
The contact owns a 2016 GMC Terrain. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed in inclement weather, the windshield wipers failed to operate. There was no warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic and a screw was replaced; however, the failure recurred. Neither the dealer nor the manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 150,000.
I turned my wipers on when it started raining. And noticed that my wipers were not working.
Driver's side windshield wiper inoperable when turned on during a pouring rain while traveling at 70 MPH!!! Passenger side worked but drivers did not.
2016 GMC Terrain front windshield wipers failed completely during a major rainstorm downpour event. Visibility during 05/21/2022 drive on Interstate 94 was immediately compromised and my son had to pull over to avoid potential collision. Diagnosis indicates wiper motor is still operational, both front wipers are still coupled/ganged-together and move in unison, but can now be moved freely by hand, indicating wipers are de-coupled from motor. This is the same failure mode that prompted NHSTA to push for a GM recall of 2013, and then later 2014 & 2015 GMC Terrain vehicles. There is a growing list of 2016 GMC Terrain owners reporting this same failure mode online. the federal safety agency & GM should take a serious look at this before someone is seriously injured.
wipers failed during storm they became disconnected and i had to use my 4 ways and pull over in traffic
While driving in rain, I turned wipers on. The rain turned heavy and I put wiper setting to faster mode. The wipers suddenly failed and stayed on windshield. The wipers failed to work in any setting. I pulled car to the side of road waited for the rain to pass before driving.
The contact owns a 2016 GMC Terrain. The contact stated while driving 65 MPH in inclement weather, the windshield wipers stopped working as needed. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact pulled over and waited until the rain slowed down and drove home safely. The contact took the vehicle to the dealer who diagnosed the vehicle with a wiper module failure. The contact was informed that the wiper module needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 145,000.
Upon traveling west on M50 in Monroe county the vehicles windshield wipers stopped working during a heavy storm. My visibility was gone. I had to veer off onto the shoulder of the road. I was unable to see out of my windshield during the windshield wiper failure. I got out of the vehicle and smoke was coming near the windshield wiper arms at the cowl vents. My windshield wipers were completely off as if the wiper transmission arm had broke. The windshield wiper motor was dead and the ball joint for the transmission had fallen off. This is a major safety concern. HIGH RISK of a head on collision and/or accident involving a pedestrian, structure and environment off road.
When I purchased the vehicle (2/2021), wipers were one thing indicated that was fixed, since then, they have gone out 3 more times, the first time (3/2021) the motor was replaced, the second time (10/2021) the wiper transmission was replaced, now they are not working again (2/2022), and I'm at a loss on what to do.
Windshield wiper broke.
The contact owns a 2016 GMC Terrain. The contact stated that while driving in the rain, the windshield wipers failed to operate as needed without warning. The contact pulled over and restarted the vehicle; however, the failure persisted. The contact stated that an abnormal, cracking sound was coming from the windshield wipers when she attempted to activate them. The contact took the vehicle to an independent mechanic where he repaired the windshield wipers. The contact notified the manufacturer and was informed that there were no recalls on the vehicle. The contact filed a complaint with the manufacturer. The vehicle was repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 38,000.
While driving in heavy rain and traffic the front wipers quit working. Lives were put at risk by being unable see because of the heavy rain. This just happen about 5 hours ago and I have not had time to look at the problem. I almost had a panic attack !!!!!!!!!!!This is not fun, this is dangerous !!!!!!!!!!!
Wipers stop working during a storm. You can hear the motor but the blades do not move.?
This is the second time in 3 months that my windshield wipers have completely stopped working while driving in a torrential downpour. I am not sure why the 2016 terrains have not been recalled in the us, only in canada! This is absolutely absurd! What is it going to take, someone senselessly dying in order for gmc to repair/replace their defective parts or for the federal safety agency to mandate a recall??????
On january 25, 2021, my 16-year-old daughter was driving my terrain down the main road in our town, it was dark and it was starting to rain. She turned on the windshield wipers and after making one pass they stopped in the upright position. This scared her to death, she was able to pull over and call me and wait till the rain stopped but had either one of us been driving on the highway at 70mph this could have ended differently. This is very dangerous and needs to be addressed.
Update: plastic wiper joints replaced 3 times, quit after 3 days. Complete wiper assembly replaced, quit again. The assembly was the "new" version, completely different than original, still stopped mid use. Gmc needs to recall this part immediately.
Windshield wipers stopped working. I can hear the motor working but the arms dod not move.
While traveling home from out of town during a downpour, the wipers just stopped. After waiting out the storm, my husband was able to locate the wiper assembly and found that the arm(held on by a small, plastic piece) had popped off on one side. He was able to reattach it, and it was fine for a few days until again, while traveling during a rainstorm, they stopped again. I was driving both times and at a high rate of speed. I was unable to see anything in front of me and had to stop in traffic(we were on a country road with no shoulder). We were told by a local dealer that the parts should be replaced, but that the assembly hadn't changed and it would keep happening. We also found numerous complaints online.
I was driving down the highway (with my children) during a torrential downpour, when my wipers suddenly stopped working. I had extreme difficulty seeing to be able to maneuver my car to a safe place without wrecking. It was very scary for all of us.(not to mention tornado sirens going off at this time.) since then I have replaced the fuse and the relay and they still do not work, so I think it may be the motor. This car isn't old enough to have problems like this. This with the other problems I have had since purchasing the terrain make me wish I would not have bought it. Now we are stuck not being able to drive it when it rains until I can save up the money to fix it. Thanks a lot gm.
2016 gmc terrain. Consumer writes in regards to defective link ball socket in wiper transmission. *ld the consumer requested to have the vehicle assessed for the known failure without being charged a diagnostic fee.
While driving in a heavy snow storm the wiper blades stopped working after about an hour of use. They stopped entirely, no movement at all.
The wipers stopped working during severe inclement weather; almost causing a wreck due to the inability to see through the windshield. The vehicle was in motion on a highway.
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