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Trav_13 Senior Enthusiast

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I have a few questions on my 09 GMC Sierra that are areas of concern and I wanted to see if you guys had run into any of these, or have solutions to them.

 

1. Rattle/Clicking sound that comes from the Steering Column/Knee Bolster area when hitting bumps in the road. Can't seem to track it down easily, I guess I'm going to have to take the knee bolster off of the dash and see if anything is loose...

 

2. Rattle/Vibration from the Dash right above the Instrument Panel...sounds just like some of the chattering gauges in the GMT 800 trucks, however if I put the slightest bit of pressure on the dash right above the I/P the noise goes away? I have no idea on how to fix this one.

 

3. The BOSE Subwoofer...apparently this thing has so much BASS its not even good...basically with the BASS set in the middle of the range, if you are listening to a song with BASS the whole console/center of the dash area rattles like the whole truck is going to come undone....has anyone ran into this on their GMT 900 with Bose....I know the Sub assembly is bolted to the floor, I was wondering if there was some sort of rubber bushings that a guy could put on the mounting studs to maybe eliminate the vibration which then feeds into the console/dash, etc.

 

These are all on the SLT styled dash...the truck has 15K miles on it.

Stevens03 Senior Enthusiast

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:sick: I didn't have a single rattle or vibration in my 07, I'm hoping the 11 is the same. So far so good. They DRIVE ME NUT. Not sure why your getting those. Maybe a trip to the dealership might be in order.

Trav_13 Senior Enthusiast

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:sick: I didn't have a single rattle or vibration in my 07, I'm hoping the 11 is the same. So far so good. They DRIVE ME NUT. Not sure why your getting those. Maybe a trip to the dealership might be in order. :D

 

Well hopefully your 11' treats you good to...my 07 was the perfect truck, I honestly wonder why I ever traded it....I don't like rattles either and this 2009 has been of less quality than any of them I have ever owned. Its very disappointing to have a good truck, trade it for a newer one that comes with minor annoying things. The BOSE thing is probably the worst, it literally sounds like the damn thing is coming apart!

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I had that same rattle that you do I believe. I had the 4wd drive get locked in 4 Low and took it to the dealer a good friend of mine works at the dealer and always have him do the work. Long story short, he found that knee bolster broke the plastic rivets and was causing that annoying squeak and it took care of the noise in the dash. Check that out first I hope this works for you as my truck is a pleasure to drive again, but it always should be, LOL

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i nevr had any of those rattles in any one of my last three 900's ('08 Sierra, '09 Tahoe LTZ, '10 Yukon Denali) two had the bose with sub and the system sounded tremendous, no rattles (yet).. gotta be a couple loose parts just take it in and have the mechanic listen to them with you there so he knows what he needs to fix, don't just let a service advisor hear them, insist on the mechanic who will be working on your truck listen to it.

oldmann Senior Enthusiast

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No problems with my bose. Maybe you can chech under their. Just lift out the square tray and look around.

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Billy BA Enthusiast

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"1. Rattle/Clicking sound that comes from the Steering Column/Knee Bolster area when hitting bumps in the road. Can't seem to track it down easily, I guess I'm going to have to take the knee bolster off of the dash and see if anything is loose..."

 

I thought had this one myself--until I realized it was just the key fob slapping the side of the column. Just saying.

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I had the same dash rattle above the radio, I just popped the trim off and put some window kit( black stuff it kinda looks like playdough, can be bought at any auto parts store) around the clips that hold the trim on and it fixed it, mine seemed more noticable when the heat or A/C was on

Trav_13 Senior Enthusiast

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Happened to read this post and then realize I was the one that wrote it....anyway here is what I found...

 

1. Was the linkage on the steering column, above the knee bolster, that connects the gear shifter linkage and transmission cable...there was some slack in it and it was rattling around.

 

2. Randomly went away..

 

3. Console was not assembled properly, removed and rebuilt the console and all was well, basically found the front half wasn't clipped together completely when the truck was assembled.

 

4. Truck came up with a few more problems and was traded....I've now got an 11 Sierra which is of much higher quality! Think I got a bad egg with the 09

Trav_13 Senior Enthusiast

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Your overdue in changing your signature :thumbs:

 

Yes long overdue! Seems like I never use my actual laptop which is where my pictures are, always on the iPhone...

 

What mileage are you getting from your 6.2's? I'm struggling at 12 on 93 Octane. Do these things get a little better with mileage? I'm at 3k

RyanbabZ71 Senior Enthusiast

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Between 11.5 & 13 on E85 it is pretty consistent

 

This is 65-75% city driving

 

I am at 18k and it hasn't changed at all

 

Same milage as my old 5.3 running 87

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