2025 Cadillac XT5 Owner Complaints
Complaint Summary
The 2025 Cadillac XT5 has 4 reported complaints.
- Top issues involve engine and forward collision avoidance: automatic emergency braking.
Reliability Score
Reliability Score
Based on 4 complaints
Most Frequent Issues
ENGINE
1 25%
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
1 25%
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
1 25%
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
1 25%
Quick Insights
The top category is ENGINE, accounting for 25% of all complaints.
Owners have reported issues across 4 distinct vehicle systems.
Note: Complaint data reflects owner reports and may not always indicate a verified defect. Compare with Recalls and TSBs for a complete picture.
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What owners keep reporting on the 2025 Cadillac XT5
The 2025 Cadillac XT5 has 4 owner complaints in this dataset. ENGINE is the most common complaint category, representing about 25% of the reports shown here.
Most common complaint categories
The top complaint groups for the 2025 Cadillac XT5 are ENGINE (1), FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING (1), FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS (1).
Are these complaints a serious red flag?
Potentially. 1 complaint report involve higher-attention systems like brakes, steering, engine, powertrain, fuel, suspension, airbags, or electrical components, which is enough to justify a focused inspection.
What should buyers inspect on a used 2025 Cadillac XT5?
Start with the top complaint systems, compare them against the recall report, then inspect service records for evidence that those same areas were already repaired or monitored.
Detailed Complaint Log
Showing 4 of 4 systems
ENGINE
1 Report25% of totalPreviewing the first 1 complaint summaries.
purchased 2024 XT5 brand new less than 6,000 miles SES light on..dealer states part failure w/transmission snap ring-traded vehicle for 2025 XT5. At 5,464 miles SES light comes on-another internal transmission part failure this time control valve body needed to be replaced. The control valve body is currently being recalled in the Cadillac CT5 but GM has not acknowledged issues with the control valve body on the XT5. After leaving the dealership after being serviced for a control valve body replacement I was involved in an accident 79 miles later/none of the safety features on this $60,000 vehicle engaged⦠no emergency braking⦠no vibration of seatâ¦. no audible or visual alert stating approaching the vehicle to closely-NOTHING!
6/12/2025
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
1 Report25% of totalPreviewing the first 1 complaint summaries.
purchased 2024 XT5 brand new less than 6,000 miles SES light on..dealer states part failure w/transmission snap ring-traded vehicle for 2025 XT5. At 5,464 miles SES light comes on-another internal transmission part failure this time control valve body needed to be replaced. The control valve body is currently being recalled in the Cadillac CT5 but GM has not acknowledged issues with the control valve body on the XT5. After leaving the dealership after being serviced for a control valve body replacement I was involved in an accident 79 miles later/none of the safety features on this $60,000 vehicle engaged⦠no emergency braking⦠no vibration of seatâ¦. no audible or visual alert stating approaching the vehicle to closely-NOTHING!
6/12/2025
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
1 Report25% of totalPreviewing the first 1 complaint summaries.
purchased 2024 XT5 brand new less than 6,000 miles SES light on..dealer states part failure w/transmission snap ring-traded vehicle for 2025 XT5. At 5,464 miles SES light comes on-another internal transmission part failure this time control valve body needed to be replaced. The control valve body is currently being recalled in the Cadillac CT5 but GM has not acknowledged issues with the control valve body on the XT5. After leaving the dealership after being serviced for a control valve body replacement I was involved in an accident 79 miles later/none of the safety features on this $60,000 vehicle engaged⦠no emergency braking⦠no vibration of seatâ¦. no audible or visual alert stating approaching the vehicle to closely-NOTHING!
6/12/2025
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
1 Report25% of totalPreviewing the first 1 complaint summaries.
Rearview camera has perfect image when I put in reverse inside my garage but as soom as I exit the garage into sunlight, the image on the screen goes so dark you don't have a rear view for 18 to 20 seconds and by that time I am in the street. The dealer and Cadillac say this is normal. I have owned may GM vehicles and know this is not correct and dangerous
9/21/2025
Data and Methodology
Scores are derived from NHTSA recalls and owner complaints, normalized by vehicle segment averages.
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Complaint list entries are sourced from owner-submitted NHTSA ODI records.
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- Complaint entries
- 4
- Top-topic view
- 4 grouped topics shown
- Primary source
- NHTSA ODI owner complaint records
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