21V246000
AIR BAGS:CRITICAL FASTENERS
Unsecured side curtain air bags may not perform as intended, increasing the risk of injury.
2013 GMC ACADIA
3 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations, 194 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints194
Complaints citing a crash7
Complaints citing a fire17
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 3 of 3
14V266000
SEAT BELTS
If the steel cable becomes fatigued and separates, the seatbelt may not properly restrain the seat occupant increasing the risk of an injury in a crash.
14V118000
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW
Failure of the side impact air bags and seat belt pretensioners to deploy in a crash increase the risk of injury to the driver and front seat occupant.
What owners report most
- 38ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 28AIR BAGS
- 27POWER TRAIN
- 21ENGINE
- 20UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 9EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 8STEERING
- 6ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2013 GMC ACADIAs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.