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I've put hardly any miles on my car since getting it back "fixed"--around 700--and the wheel clicking has gradually come back and is now nearly as bad as it was when I took it in before.
I've put hardly any miles on my car since getting it back "fixed"--around 700--and the wheel clicking has gradually come back and is now nearly as bad as it was when I took it in before.
Welcome to the club, my friend. My V has been to the dealer at least 5-6 times for the same problem and GM does not have a fix for it as of yet. All they will do is throw parts at it hoping it will work, but so far no luck on a remedy.
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After reading was seems like a few hundred posts on wheel clicking, I decided to check the tightness of my lug nuts without a torque wrench. While all the nuts seemed sufficiently tight, I tighten them a little more (very little more). The clicking went away. I am sure it will come back, but my action lends credence to the theory that the clicking occurs at the wheel-hub interface.
Cleaning this interface eliminates the clicking temporarily. I might note that I tightened the lug nuts using a 1/2" breaker bar and a six-sided (not 12-point) deep impact socket. Could I remove the lug nuts on the road at this tightness? I don't know, but it probably doesn't matter due to the fact that the wheels supposedly need not be removed even with a flat due to the presence of the air-sealer pump in the trunk. Should I use a torque wrench? Probably, but I don't have one.
Run-flats would allow me to keep driving without even stopping to use an air pump or to change the wheel. That is why I prefer run-flats.
Bottom line - the clicking is more of an annoyance than a real problem. It will not go away forever until the material of the wheels or the hubs is changed. Is Cadillac going to do this for the cars that are already on the road? Probably not.
Having the exact same problem in my C6, I find it amazing that nobody can find a solution for this problem. Maybe this has been mentioned in this thread, but has GM gotten involved in this at all, or has it just been on a dealership level?
Having the exact same problem in my C6, I find it amazing that nobody can find a solution for this problem. Maybe this has been mentioned in this thread, but has GM gotten involved in this at all, or has it just been on a dealership level?
Trust me when I say that GM is aware of the problem and involved in the quest to find a solution, but I don't think they will ever release one because it will be too expensive to have to put new revised front wheels on every V with the problem. They will have to go back to the drawing board (they are probably there now) and have the hub of the wheel cut differently where it mounts to the rotors. Once they re-design the wheel, their wheel supplier will have to crank them out at a fast pace to supply the factory as well to all of us in order for the problem to go away once and for all. Again, this is a very expensive problem for GM and I don't think they will admit that it is a wheel design because they fear how much money it is going to cost them.
