Brewhacker
Junior Member
Hello All, first post!
So, here’s one for all you long time owners. I have a 2018 SRW 3500 shortbox crew cab 4x4. It’s in great shape, I baby it. It’s got about 55,000 Miles on it right now. This is my daily driver and only vehicle. I use it to pull my 43ft 5th Wheel RV regularly.
Lately I’ve had a few problems and I “feel” like they are related.
1. At about 75-80mph (like almost 78 exactly) I get a very slight vibration/wobble. It’s not horrible, but noticeable as things in the cab rattle.
2. I have lost 3 lug nuts in the last 6 months. I “think” they’re all on the same axle/wheel… but I can’t be 100% sure.
3. When I come to a stop after driving for a few mins and then i go to turn, seemingly mostly when turning left, but I can’t be sure, I get a slight grinding feeling for about 1.5seconds and then as I drive more it goes away. It doesn’t happen EVERY time either, it’s intermittent. It is almost like I‘m spinning out in gravel, but not as loud and prominent, just similar.
I took the truck to 2 different tire shops locally and was told that I have one bent rim (not sure how the hell I did that!). They said it’s not bad, but it is bent. I have re-torqued the lug nuts myself and I am keeping a close eye on them.
So, my “theory” is that the bent rim is flexing in the turn and the lug nut is very slowly (over weeks) coming loose. I’m also thinking the ”grinding” noise is the wheel flexing back and forth on the hub. I can’t really verify this, it’s just a theory. When I took it into the dealership and described it the service manager immediately theorized the same thing without me saying it….so that kind of validated my theory…but who knows.
I’m getting ready to drop nearly $4000 on new wheels and tires thinking maybe this would fix it. I’d rather avoid this, but am willing to do so to fix the issue. I could just replace one wheel but I am not opposed to an “upgrade” too! ;-). But, I’d be pissed if I spent all that and it didn’t solve the issue.
Does anyone have any other ideas? Has anyone else experienced something similar?
Appreciate any feedback.
Randy
So, here’s one for all you long time owners. I have a 2018 SRW 3500 shortbox crew cab 4x4. It’s in great shape, I baby it. It’s got about 55,000 Miles on it right now. This is my daily driver and only vehicle. I use it to pull my 43ft 5th Wheel RV regularly.
Lately I’ve had a few problems and I “feel” like they are related.
1. At about 75-80mph (like almost 78 exactly) I get a very slight vibration/wobble. It’s not horrible, but noticeable as things in the cab rattle.
2. I have lost 3 lug nuts in the last 6 months. I “think” they’re all on the same axle/wheel… but I can’t be 100% sure.
3. When I come to a stop after driving for a few mins and then i go to turn, seemingly mostly when turning left, but I can’t be sure, I get a slight grinding feeling for about 1.5seconds and then as I drive more it goes away. It doesn’t happen EVERY time either, it’s intermittent. It is almost like I‘m spinning out in gravel, but not as loud and prominent, just similar.
I took the truck to 2 different tire shops locally and was told that I have one bent rim (not sure how the hell I did that!). They said it’s not bad, but it is bent. I have re-torqued the lug nuts myself and I am keeping a close eye on them.
So, my “theory” is that the bent rim is flexing in the turn and the lug nut is very slowly (over weeks) coming loose. I’m also thinking the ”grinding” noise is the wheel flexing back and forth on the hub. I can’t really verify this, it’s just a theory. When I took it into the dealership and described it the service manager immediately theorized the same thing without me saying it….so that kind of validated my theory…but who knows.
I’m getting ready to drop nearly $4000 on new wheels and tires thinking maybe this would fix it. I’d rather avoid this, but am willing to do so to fix the issue. I could just replace one wheel but I am not opposed to an “upgrade” too! ;-). But, I’d be pissed if I spent all that and it didn’t solve the issue.
Does anyone have any other ideas? Has anyone else experienced something similar?
Appreciate any feedback.
Randy