What is the best year for the GMC Yukon?
No official dataset can support one universal best year. Use the table to compare complaint patterns and EPA figures, then open the shortlisted years for recall campaigns and exact specifications.
Model-year matrix
GMC Yukon
which year?
Compare every GMC Yukon model year the EPA recorded, 1992 to 2026. See complaint patterns, fuel economy and configurations side by side, then open any year for recall campaigns and the full dossier. Confirm against the official NHTSA recall search.
Evidence-led answer
Looking for the best GMC Yukon year—or years to avoid?
The official records cannot honestly name a best, worst or most reliable year. Complaint totals have no sales, mileage or age denominator. They can show where more reports were filed and which components were named, giving you years to investigate more closely before checking the exact car and its VIN.
Which GMC Yukon years should you avoid?
The records cannot justify a blanket avoid label. Years with more reports are surfaced below as research priorities, not predictions about every car from that year.
01 · More reports to inspect2015
528 indexed complaint reports; exterior lighting is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2015 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2007428 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2007 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2021302 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2021 dossier →Do not read this as an avoid list. Older and higher-selling model years usually accumulate more reports. A low count can also mean a newer, rarer or poorly matched vehicle—not a safer one.
Complaint totals are counts of owner-submitted allegations, not confirmed defects, and they carry no denominator: they are not adjusted for how many cars were sold, how old they are, how far they are driven, or how much publicity a fault received. A high-volume or older year will usually show more reports than a rare or recent one. The site does not convert these into a reliability score, because the data needed to do that honestly is not in the public record.
Direct comparison
Compare two GMC Yukon model years.
Choose any two years. The URL keeps the pair so you can return to the same comparison. Every figure below is an observed official record or EPA estimate—not a reliability score.
2025 GMC Yukon
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 49
- Combined EPA economy
- 16–23 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 12
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,450–4,750
- Fuel labels
- Diesel · Premium Gasoline · Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsengine 31forward collision avoidance 9electrical system 8
Open the 2025 evidence dossier →2026 GMC Yukon
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 24
- Combined EPA economy
- 16–23 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 12
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $3,450–4,750
- Fuel labels
- Diesel · Premium Gasoline · Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsengine 15power train 9electrical system 3
Open the 2026 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2026 has 25 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2025.
This is not a rate or reliability finding. The counts have no sales, mileage, age or exposure denominator, and newer years have had less time to accumulate reports.Side by side
GMC Yukon by year.
Complaint bars are scaled against this model’s own highest year, so they compare years with each other and with nothing else.
| Year | Complaints | Most-reported components | Combined MPG | EPA configs | Annual fuel cost | Dossier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 24 | engine 15power train 9electrical system 3 | 16–23 | 12 | $3,450–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 49 | engine 31forward collision avoidance 9electrical system 8 | 16–23 | 12 | $3,450–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 90 | engine 59electrical system 16power train 12 | 16–23 | 12 | $3,450–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 213 | engine 137power train 37electrical system 25 | 16–23 | 12 | $3,450–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 164 | engine 95electrical system 30power train 26 | 16–23 | 20 | $3,450–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 302 | engine 161power train 48fuel/propulsion system 40 | 16–23 | 20 | $3,400–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 34 | power train 14engine 10service brakes 3 | 16–18 | 12 | $3,400–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 53 | engine 27power train 12electrical system 9 | 16–18 | 12 | $3,400–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 69 | engine 27power train 18suspension 8 | 16–19 | 12 | $3,250–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 196 | exterior lighting 49power train 48service brakes 41 | 16–19 | 12 | $3,250–3,850 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 265 | exterior lighting 105electrical system 53service brakes 52 | 17–19 | 12 | $3,250–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 528 | exterior lighting 269service brakes 85electrical system 79 | 16–18 | 16 | $3,400–3,850 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 56 | unknown or other 23air bags 12structure 11 | 14–17 | 8 | $3,600–4,400 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 117 | unknown or other 52air bags 32structure 22 | 12–21 | 13 | $2,950–5,100 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 62 | unknown or other 35air bags 17structure 14 | 12–21 | 13 | $2,950–5,100 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 158 | air bags 79unknown or other 55structure 27 | 12–21 | 13 | $2,950–5,100 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 105 | air bags 53unknown or other 38structure 26 | 14–22 | 9 | $2,800–4,400 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 94 | air bags 35unknown or other 30structure 16 | 14–21 | 14 | $2,950–4,400 | Dossier → |
| 2008 | 187 | air bags 96electrical system 29unknown or other 29 | 14–21 | 14 | $2,950–5,450 | Dossier → |
| 2007 | 428 | air bags 215structure 77unknown or other 60 | 14–17 | 10 | $3,600–5,450 | Dossier → |
| 2006 | 27 | unknown or other 6air bags 5steering 5 | 13–16 | 9 | $3,850–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2005 | 85 | electrical system 28service brakes 11power train 8 | 13–16 | 13 | $3,850–5,850 | Dossier → |
| 2004 | 158 | electrical system 57service brakes 27vehicle speed control 14 | 13–15 | 16 | $4,100–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2003 | 204 | electrical system 54service brakes 40service brakes, hydraulic 19 | 13–15 | 16 | $4,100–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 2002 | 158 | service brakes, hydraulic 40service brakes 37air bags 12 | 12–15 | 12 | $4,100–5,100 | Dossier → |
| 2001 | 197 | service brakes, hydraulic 57service brakes 23air bags 19 | 12–15 | 8 | $4,100–5,100 | Dossier → |
| 2000 | 166 | service brakes, hydraulic 41tires 23visibility 20 | 13–15 | 8 | $4,100–4,750 | Dossier → |
| 1999 | 204 | service brakes, hydraulic 107steering 22tires 17 | 13–15 | 4 | $4,400–5,300 | Dossier → |
| 1998 | 80 | service brakes, hydraulic 22visibility 16steering 11 | 13–15 | 4 | $4,400–5,300 | Dossier → |
| 1997 | 133 | steering 57service brakes, hydraulic 32power train 18 | 14–15 | 3 | $4,100–5,300 | Dossier → |
| 1996 | 70 | service brakes, hydraulic 18visibility 14engine and engine cooling 9 | 14–15 | 3 | $4,400–5,300 | Dossier → |
| 1995 | 90 | service brakes, hydraulic 28seats 27electrical system 11 | 12–14 | 4 | $5,100–5,700 | Dossier → |
| 1994 | 58 | service brakes, hydraulic 27visibility 19seats 8 | 12–15 | 3 | $5,100–5,300 | Dossier → |
| 1993 | 17 | service brakes, hydraulic 8seat belts 3service brakes, air 2 | 13 | 2 | $4,750 | Dossier → |
| 1992 | 19 | service brakes, hydraulic 13visibility 3power train 2 | 13 | 2 | $4,750 | Dossier → |
Evidence snapshot generated . “Not indexed” means NHTSA holds no complaint record matching this exact year, make and model — not that no fault occurred. Recall campaigns are not summarised here: NHTSA publishes no bulk recall dataset, and fetching them per year would take longer than the page should. Each year’s dossier shows its recalls in full, live from NHTSA.