2004 Silverado Rim Problem

[prtygood]

Go to the GM web site, and log your truck into the owners center. Then go to "contact us" and let them know whats going on. I had a phone call within 48 hrs. I wish more people would complain. "The squeeky wheel gets the grease". I'm going to Richmond for the nascar race later in the week. I'll try to talk to some people.

[cljonez]

Just thought I'd update you on the truck rims. The dealer we got the truck from has quite a turnover in staff and the service manager I was working with was fired and a new fellow took over and wanted to start over from scratch. Of course the answer was a huge "NO" on this side. They called on Friday and said that they realize there is a problem here with the hub nuts and so they gave me a truck payment to go buy rims with and said that as soon as there was a solution with the plastic nuts they would get that to me too so if I were to sell my truck at least I could keep the new rims and put them on something else. I hope you can get some decent results from your dealer or GM on the problem. Maybe this information will help you obtain results faster.

[prtygood]

I have the part number at home, for the older style nut covers that a dealer around here is using to replace the crappy ones. I want to make sure I have the right thing, then I'll post it. I talked to alot of people at Richmond, it was about 50/50. Sounds like you made out good. I did see a new Chevy at Richmond that had awesome looking rims on it. I'm sure they were factory because they had the same center caps on them. but i never ran into the owner to ask him. He also had 285/75 tires on it ant it was sharp.

[simba323]

mine don't come off, although I haven't really pulled anything heavier than 5000 lbs.

[chuck16]

I don't have this problem with mine however, I do notice one just slight loose but, not to the point of coming off.

Have they tried changing the lug nuts???

[obbop]

Knowing the corporate mind-set my prognostication for the cure will be to wrap a turn or two of plumbing tape around the threads before attaching the center cap.