2007 GMC Yukon: engine failure

5 of the 428 complaints about the 2007 GMC Yukon describe engine failure.

owner complaints: 5
of this car's complaints: 1%
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 179 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Engine failure by model year

2026
21
2025
23
2024
38
2023
112
2022
58
2021
80
2020
4
2019
16
2018
12
2017
8
2016
9
2015
9
2013
1
2012
3
2011
2
2008
2
2007
5
2006
1
2005
1
2004
1
2003
3
2001
1
2000
1
1999
1
1997
1
1994
1
1993
1

What owners say

Filed Apr 17, 2026 · CA

transmission seized up

Filed Nov 1, 2019 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 191,707 miles · MI

Happened two times yesterday. 2007 yukon denali odometer: 191,707 engine hours: 1443.9 first, stabilitrak control turned off and engine power was reduced illuminated on the message center of the dash board. Car would not accelerate above 20 MPH. When I would try to push the gas petal there would be a shutter in the rear of the vehicle. I was able to put the car in park, turn it off and tried restarting. Same issues continued. I limped to my work a less than a mile away to try and figure out what was happening as I had myself and 4 kids in the car after trick or treating. I shut off the car and waited for a bit while I read online what was causing this. Upon restarting the car, it started working again as normal. Safety risk when you can't accelerate past 20 MPH on a 45 mile per hour road. Second occurance was a few hours later. I turned the car on to leave and the same things happened, this time it was driving like I had lost my power steering and no engine power. Luckily, again, I was in a spot to pull off to the side, turn the car off and made it home okay. This car has a brand new engine. Upon reading here and some other things online it seems the stabilitrak has numberous reports of this same thing. Luckily I have been in a spot where it didn't become dangerous and I knew what to do based on reading here. I use my yukon for work so can't have this happening and it's dangerous for myself, my kids and other drivers on the road if they happen to be behind me when it happens. Hopefully with enough complaints something can be done to fix this issue. I have included a pic of the symbol that illuminated on my dashboard when this happened.

Filed May 30, 2016 · Engine · GA

74,000 miles on the odometer and loud ticking noise coming from the engine on the left side. After doing my research and taking it to the dealership hamby in perry, ga they said I needed a new engine but I got a second opition it is the afm lifters a camshaft thats causing the noise gm needs to do a recall asap

Filed Oct 4, 2015 · Brakes, Driver assistance · 53,000 miles · CA

While driving on surface streets, the yellow ABS warning came on, "stabilitrack" light came on. The warning lights started dinging, the transmission slammed between gears, the lights came and went and the door locks were going up and down continuously. Lost power also, pulled off and shot off engine. Truck would not restart as electrical system was dead. Same thing happened 10k miles earlier. This has happened 2times and the car only has 53,000 miles. Repairs took over 10 days as the engine was not communicating with the car. Replaced engine control module

Filed Feb 3, 2013 · Engine · 43,990 miles · RI

When vehicle was inspected I was told that there was an exhaust leak in exhaust manifold. Dealership found a broken bolt on left side and replaced it. I have just been informed that I now as of 01/30/2012 with 62,760 miles I have another bolt broken on the right side. After researching on internet it is obvious that gm has a design fault in using lower grade bolt which are breaking in large numbers. I implore the ntsa to require gm to replace these defective bolts either by recall or as incident occurs at no cost to car owners. I am told that the exhaust leak can cause failure of the catalytic converter and other engine failure problems which can result in safety issues.