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2011 GMC Acadia electronic stability control (esc) problems

16 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the electronic stability control (esc) on the 2011 GMC Acadia6% of all complaints for this model year.

16
Electronic Stability Control (esc) complaints
6%
share of all complaints
72,000 mi
median reported incident mileage
0 / 0
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • This all began at about 75000 miles. It first started with the stabilization/traction light coming on while driving once this happened you could not accelerate the car. I once was on a highway in the middle lane when it happened I could not accelerate and had to try to get over to the break down…

    filed Sep 27, 2020

  • It has happen to me when my vehicle is in motion and when I go above 65 miles ph. The gmc starts to heat up and sends a message on the display saying transmission is hot a lot of smoke comes out and the speed decreases completely I have to come to a complete stop and park in the street until it…

    filed Jun 3, 2020

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.