We had a new 2010 Acadia for 3.5 years as a family hauler, and it was OK at best. I really hated the headrests. Anywho, we had several issues over the years including:
- Steering wheel has parts come loose inside causing a rub while turning. This was not fixed well IMHO, and the wheel just flew from lock to lock making loud clunking noises afterwards.
- The power lift gate mechanism broke. This also was not fixed quite like new, but it didn't break again.
- TPMS went berserk. This took forever to fix as they ended up having to replace the entire system.
- HVAC stopped responding to temp setting properly. It would take an hour before it figured out that I wanted heat and not cold when it's 17 degrees out. Luckily some diagnostic made them replace the unit and we never had it happen again.
- Radio would sporadically play loud static full blast when you turned on the car. Nothing would get rid of it except cycling the ignition since the radio controls didn't respond.
- The door switches would stick, and not recognize that it had opened or closed leaving the radio and interior lights on for some amount of time. The fix was to slam the doors real hard to unstick it.
- Other random electrical issues that would happen one time and never again.
Once it went out of the B2B warranty I looked for any excuse to dump it, because I knew it was going to eat us alive to keep fixing all these issues that kept popping up. DW loved it, and wants an Acadia Denali someday :( If that happens I will gladly dish out the megabucks for the B2B extended warranties.
