Rear wheel Wobble...

online diecast · August 22, 2005

2002 GMC Sierra 1500 4.3 I have had a squeaking noise coming from the rear wheel and I had the brakes done which it needed and was covered by the dealer. Well the sqeaking just got worse and it has been driving me nuts so today i pulled in my rear view mirror to look while driving and sure enough my rear wheel has a bad bad wobble. What are some of the causes of this?? I take it in tomorrow and dont want to be bs'd by them, The squeak goes away when i apply pressure to the brake.

Thanks in advance.

Brian

mmmikkke · August 22, 2005

2002 GMC Sierra 1500 4.3 I have had a squeaking noise coming from the rear wheel and I had the brakes done which it needed and was covered by the dealer. Well the sqeaking just got worse and it has been driving me nuts so today i pulled in my rear view mirror to look while driving and sure enough my rear wheel has a bad bad wobble. What are some of the causes of this?? I take it in tomorrow and dont want to be bs'd by them, The squeak goes away when i apply pressure to the brake.

Thanks in advance.

Brian

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They may have put things back together wrong. The wheel mates up with a flat area--the wheel flange I think--and the disc brake rotor is sandwiched between this flange and the actual wheel. If there's a boss or somethign else on this flat area that wasn't noticed by the technician, he might have installed the rotor over the boss and tightened it down, crooked though it may have made it.

If you have a steel wheel, it could have been bent by this mistake, so that even after the problem with the rotor is fixed, the wheel could still be bent. In fact, even an aluminum wheel could have been damaged by this, though in a less obvious way.

If after they straighten out the rotor mis-install you have pulsating rear brakes, it could be that the now bent wheel is influencing the rotor to be slightly bent, causing the pulsation.

Good luck. See if you can find out what remedial action they take about this negligence on the part of the technician who did your brakes.

online diecast · August 24, 2005

Well today they took off the wheel and the rotor and put the whell back on and it still has the wobble which menas a bent plate or the axel is bent. Al i can say is the dealer better pay for it since i asked him to make sure the truck had that sound checked out and fixed.