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Hi everyone a couple of weeks I noticed my 2014 Sierra Denali had a clanking noise coming from the back of the truck whenever I went over bumps or sometimes when turning. I took in to the dealer so they could take a look at it. It's been there 3 days and they called today saying that this is normal for the 2014 sierras. I told them I've had this truck for a year already and have never experienced this problem until recently. They said they would look again to see if they missed anything.

 

Any ideas? Anyone else experience this problem?

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Yes I have had my 2014 Sierra Z71 4x4 in for the noise. They said it was the leaf springs, and is pretty common for these trucks. The authorized fix by GM is to grease the pads between the leaf springs. Well they did that to mine and I went on a long road trip and after about 900 miles the noise was back. and really noisy once I drove through rain. I reported this back to the dealer and he said that was the only fix, there was no other solution. Replacing the springs would not solve it. It would do it with the new springs. They suggested that I have the leaf springs greased every time I had an oil change. I couldn't help but laugh. I asked him to show me that maintenance item in my owners manual. I am not accepting that solution, I am on a letter writing campaign to GM corporate about this. The dealer told me that if enough people wrote GM complaining about this issue that they would eventually do something about it.

So if you take yours in, would be interested to know what they tell you.

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Thanks for the reply guys. I'll tell them about the leaf springs but this sucks a truck this expensive/ new should not have this problem with the only solution being the grease the leaf springs!!

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I have a 2015 chevy and mine is in the shop for the same reason, the leaf spring pads on these trucks are terrible. i am driving a 2015 loaner with only 3k on it and it does the same thing. Mine is just lot louder. pretty bad that a brand new truck sounds like it has 400k miles on it. all the little stuff really adds up on these truck- they should never have been released till they had all there issues worked out, i will not consider gm vehicles again they are just not even comparable to the last tundras i have had.

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