40k vibrator

[Mrdsm]

I had my truck at the dealer 5 times for whatever caused the shake. I had my OEM rims stollen so it made my situation extremely hard. Let me start by saying there is no fix! I've been in the auto business so I'm not your average joe. I just agreed and was polite as possible to the dealer and GM so I wouldn't get screwed over. But needless to say I put my hard earned money into GM's product and went for it. I won't get into why I'm have not been a true GM guy but it was the worst mistake of my life buying this truck.

So since I don't have my OEM wheels the dealer made the final decision that it was my aftermarket wheels that are causing the truck to shake. After two service writers including the service mgr admitted to knowing there trucks shake. Can no longer help me neither can GM. The last test they did the did install some take offs and said it didn't shake but I still felt the vibration but the shop foreman insisted when we had the OEM wheels on it was the road I was feeling. B/S!

GM has no clue and are just replacing wheels,tires,shocks,springs,rear ends and getting the engineers involved, realigning the driveshaft?

This is what was done to my truck. And I've had it 16 months with 20k on it as of now.

So I figure soon GM is probably going to need another bailout again because someone has to pay for labor and parts, because I didn't. (Warranty)

Maybe when someone's truck shakes apart and gets seriously injured then we'll get our truck bought back. But from my experience the GM and the dealer they'll probably blame us.

[RyanbabZ71]

Try another dealer? Grab a set of take offs from Craigslist and take it in to another dealer. They are independent so if they can reproduce the issue it may get fixed or at least identified and you can possibly go down the replacement process if your state has that

 

 

Ryan

[O_J_Simpson]

Reading this post title I thought:

 

"He paid how much for what?"

[afireinside7444]

I was cured after many visits, new tires and more visits. It became the tires needed to be matched to the rims (called it vector balanceing) and in spec tires. Then i went after market tires and its back though not as bad but havent had the time to go back and have them roadforce/tire match.

[amxguy1970]

I had my truck at the dealer 5 times for whatever caused the shake. I had my OEM rims stollen so it made my situation extremely hard. Let me start by saying there is no fix! I've been in the auto business so I'm not your average joe. I just agreed and was polite as possible to the dealer and GM so I wouldn't get screwed over. But needless to say I put my hard earned money into GM's product and went for it. I won't get into why I'm have not been a true GM guy but it was the worst mistake of my life buying this truck.

So since I don't have my OEM wheels the dealer made the final decision that it was my aftermarket wheels that are causing the truck to shake. After two service writers including the service mgr admitted to knowing there trucks shake. Can no longer help me neither can GM. The last test they did the did install some take offs and said it didn't shake but I still felt the vibration but the shop foreman insisted when we had the OEM wheels on it was the road I was feeling. B/S!

GM has no clue and are just replacing wheels,tires,shocks,springs,rear ends and getting the engineers involved, realigning the driveshaft?

This is what was done to my truck. And I've had it 16 months with 20k on it as of now.

So I figure soon GM is probably going to need another bailout again because someone has to pay for labor and parts, because I didn't. (Warranty)

Maybe when someone's truck shakes apart and gets seriously injured then we'll get our truck bought back. But from my experience the GM and the dealer they'll probably blame us.

 

They don't shake anywhere remotely bad enough to "shake apart", if it is your wife would be asking to go for a ride or take it to drive more often... Sorry you are having these problems but most aren't. Have you tried and of the fixes on your own? Tire replacement, rear shock replacement, or other fixes?

 

Tyler

[camcamaro1991]

I was cured after many visits, new tires and more visits. It became the tires needed to be matched to the rims (called it vector balanceing) and in spec tires. Then i went after market tires and its back though not as bad but havent had the time to go back and have them roadforce/tire match.

 

Vector balancing? never heard that one before, but it has many names, most commonly referred to "force matching", you align the tire to the wheel to optimize the tire road force. Every single vehicle would benfit from force matching. I did this a lot for AMG cars you know $250K cars those guys like everything perfect.

 

Day 1, I driving to DT and adding Michelins and having a force matching done, Manger is my old roommate. Also 9/10 times it helps reduce total weight needed to balance the assembly. I miss having access to tire machines.

 

 

for the guys that have never seen it before, watch the video below, please make sure you dealer does this, I was a tech for many years, not once did I see a tech do this I was the only one in a shop of 50 techs.

 

 

 

 

^ If the Dealer/techs don't do this on a vibe complaint time to start looking for a new dealer. Also make sure the machine is working correctly, most shops have a open door policy, you only need safety glasses and ask the tech to show you the run out and road force of the tire if not then ask for print out, all tires have some acceptable level of force, if unacceptable force is noted, then new tires are required, its more common than you guys think. Even had brand new tires do it, no brand is exempt.

[Ridersfan]

^^^ what he said

 

AND

 

A road force balancer is very easy to calibrate, you're not out of line to ask them to calibrate right before doing your work... the calibration bar should be right on the balancer, and it takes roughly 60 seconds.

[Tony Bianco]

Reading this post title I thought:

 

"He paid how much for what?"

 

Yeah ........... I was thinking "it" must have been solid gold!

[SouthernSilveradoGuy85]

I think vector balancing is when they make sure to put the heavy side of the tire opposite of the valve stem of the rim. Usually you'll see a painted dot on the sidewall showing the heavy side of the tire.

 

I'm one of the people that haven't had any vibration issues thankfully. It will be 2 years next month since I bought my '14 with around 23,750 miles and it never had any vibrations. I even got it up to 97 or 98 when the governor came into play. That was just 1 time and was on a long stretch of road in the country with nobody around. When you come on here and other forums of course it seems like a good portion vibrate, but when you take in account of all of the owners that aren't on a forum it's a small fraction of 1% that has vibration issues or has had major issues with the truck. Of course that doesn't make it alright, but my point is that it's a way way smaller % with problems than it seems when being on a forum.