2016 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Complaints

INSIDE RIGHT REAR WHEEL CRACKED, CAUSING AIR LEAKAGE FROM TIRE. CAUSE UNKNOWN, NOT AWARE OF ANY ROAD HAZARD OR POT HOLE INCIDENT. NOTICED CRACK AFTER WHEEL DUMP IN WATER BATH TO LOCATE SLOW LEAK. HAVE GM EXTENDED WARRANTY, DEALER WOULD NOT HONOR.

VEH PURCHASED 9/2015 AND SO FAR I HAVE REPLACE FOUR REAR RIMS AND ONE FRONT. ALL HAVE HAIR LINE CRACKS ON THE INSIDE OF RIM CAUSING RADICAL AIR LOSS, VIBRATION AND TIRE WEAR. NAVIGATION SCREEN FLICKERS AND GOES ON AND OFF AT LEAST TWO TIMES A WEEK AND I HAVE TO OPEN AND CLOSE TO RESTART SCREEN. BLOWER MOTOR WENT OUT AT 37K MILES AND THE TRANSMISSION IS BUCKING, VIBRATING, SHUDDERING AND GOING INTO 5TH GEAR AT 31MPH AND FEELS LIKE IT IS HANGING UP IN 5TH GEAR THE CLUNKS DOWN TO FIRST AT 10MPH. WENT TO DEALER, THEY CLAIMED THEY DID A SOFTWARE UP DATE AND THINGS ARE FINE. LEFT THE DEALERSHIP AND CAME BACK 5 MIN LATER WITH SAME ISSUE. TOOK SERVICE MANAGER FOR A RIDE AND HE CONFIRMED THE HORRIBLE RIDE. HAVE TO TAKE BACK ON TUESDAY 5/28 AND IT FEELS LIKE THE DRIVE SHAFT OR REAR END WILL FALL OUT. THEY SAID IT WAS FINE. I HOPE NOTHING HAPPENS TO ME OR THE CAR.

BOTH REAR WHEELS ON MY Z06 CRACKED ON THE INSIDE NO WARPING NO DINGS OR HITS HAPPENED TOOK TO DEALER TO REPLACE TIRES AND WAS SHOWED THAT BOTH WHEELS CRACKED AND NEED TO BE REPLACED TOO DANGEROUS TO USE HAVE PICTURES IN PHONE AND DEALERS REPORT AND I WILL HOLD ON TO THE WHEELS

RIGHT REAR WHEEL CRACKED. LESS THAN 17K MILES. GM SAYS NOT COVERED UNDER B2B WARRANTY. DISCOVERED WHEN TIRE LOSS AIR WHILE DRIVING. DID NOT HIT ANY POT HOLES WHEN EVENT OCCURRED/DISCOVERED. MODEL IS CORVETTE Z06, WHICH IS NOT A CHOICE ABOVE.

I OWN A 2016 CHEVROLET CORVETTE Z06. I NOTICED A WOBBLING SENSATION ON THE HIGHWAY ONLY TO FIND THAT MY REAR WHEELS ARE BENT AND CRACKED! THE CAR HAS LESS THAN 13K MILES ON IT AND IS NOW UNSAFE TO DRIVE UNLESS I SPEND THOUSANDS ON NEW WHEELS.

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ACCELERATE OR DECELERATE MY CAR I FEEL A HESITATION, FOLLOWED BY A SIGNIFICANT SHUDDER WHEN THE VEHICLE'S AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION CHANGES GEARS. THE SHUDDER, SHAKE AND HESITATION ALSO OCCURS WHILE MY VEHICLE ACCELERATES IN A SINGLE GEAR, AND NOT ACTIVELY SHIFTING GEARS. THE PROBLEM DOES NOT MERELY RESULT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE DRIVING CONDITION. THE SHUDDERING AND HESITATION SEEM TO BE RELATED TO INTERNAL ISSUES WITHIN THE TRANSMISSION AND/OR TORQUE CONVERTER CAUSING FRICTION SURFACES, HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS, AND GEARS TO NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY. THERE IS POSSIBLY PERMANENT DAMAGE THAT WILL OCCUR TO THE TRANSMISSION AND/OR TORQUE CONVERTER OVER TIME. I FACE ESCALATING REPAIRS THAT CAN INCLUDE FLUSHING THE TRANSMISSION OF METAL SHAVINGS CAUSED BY THE DEFECTIVE TRANSMISSION OPERATION, AND WHICH EVENTUALLY NECESSITATE THE REPLACEMENT OF COMPONENTS SUCH AS THE TORQUE CONVERTER, VALVE BODY, OR THE ENTIRE TRANSMISSION. AS SUCH, THE TRANSMISSION DEFECT ENDANGERS THE DRIVERS AND PASSENGERS OF THE VEHICLES, AND DIMINISHES THE VALUE OF THE VEHICLES. GM'S DELIBERATE NON-DISCLOSURE OF THESE DEFECTS ARTIFICIALLY INFLATED THE PURCHASE AND LEASE PRICE FOR THESE VEHICLES. GM HAS KNOWN ABOUT THE TRANSMISSION DEFECT FOR YEARS, SINCE RIGHT AFTER INTRODUCTION OF THE TRANSMISSION. SINCE 2015, GM HAS ISSUED THIRTEEN VERSIONS OF A 'TECHNICAL SERVICE BULLETIN,' OR 'TSB,' RELATED TO THIS SHIFTING ISSUE ALONE. THE TSBS RELATED TO THE TRANSMISSION ISSUE HAVE ADVISED DEALERSHIPS TO, AMONG OTHER THINGS: COMPLETE THE 'CLUTCH DRIVE LEARN PROCEDURE,' REPLACE THE VALVE BODY, REPLACE THE ENTIRE TRANSMISSION, FLUSH THE COOLER LINES AND COOLER, REMOVE DEBRIS FROM AND CLEAN THE TRANSMISSION PAN, REPLACE THE TRANSMISSION FILTER, REPLACE THE TRANSMISSION FLUID, AND FLUSH THE TRANSMISSION. TO DATE, NONE OF GM RECOMMENDED SOLUTIONS HAS RESOLVED THE PROBLEM.

CORVETTE REAR WHEEL WAS LOSING AIR SO INSPECTED TIRES AND FOUND NO HOLES. WENT TO CORVETTE FORUM TO LEARN THIS IS A KNOWN PROBLEM ON Z06 AND GRAND SPORTS. SEEMS GM HAS A PROBLEM WITH CRACKING. MY CRACK IS EXACTLY WHAT THE FORUM MEMBERS HAVE. HAIRLINE CRACK IN THE RIM ON THE NON-HUB SIDE. THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE AS THE RIM COULD COME APART AT SPEED AND CAUSE A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. I HAVE NO OTHER DAMAGE TO THE WHEEL AND HAVE NOT HAD ANY CURB DAMAGE. I BABY THIS CAR AND THE SAME CRACK THAT MANY OTHERS HAVE EXPERIENCED APPEAR.

FACTORY WHEELS CRACKED FROM NORMAL DRIVING ON THE INNER LIP, TIRE MECHANIC ADVISED HE'S SEEN MANY OF THESE ON THE Z06 WHEELS AND IT'S A KNOWN PROBLEM HOWEVER GM WON'T COVER THE DEFECTIVE WHEELS UNDER WARRANTY. THE CRACKED WHEEL CAUSES A SLOW LEAK END EVENTUALLY CAN BREAK IF GONE UNDETECTED RESULTING IN A LOSS OF CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE.

ON OR ABOUT SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 I NOTICED MY RIGHT FRONT TIRE WAS LOW ON AIR. I TOOK IT TO LES SCHWAB TIRE AND THEY REPAIRED A LEAK FROM A SCREW. A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER I NOTICED THE TIRE WAS STILL GOING LOW I TOOK IT BACK AND THEY INFORMED ME THAT IT HAD A CRACKED WHEEL. I PURCHASED A NEW WHEEL FROM CHEVROLET AND HAD LESS SCHWAB INSTALL IT FOR ME . I JUST RECENTLY 2/22/2019 PUT NEW TIRES ON THE CAR AND THE DEALERSHIP NOTED THE BRAND NEW WHEEL I PUT ON THE RIGHT REAR HAS CRACKS IN IT NOW AS WELL AS THE LEFT REAR WHEEL WHICH IS LOSING AIR. THESE WHEELS ARE EXPENSIVE I BELIEVE THEY RETAIL FOR $800 EACH AT THE DEALER AND ARE DEFECTIVE AND DANGEROUS. MOST OF OUR MILES ARE HIGHWAY MILES DRIVING BETWEEN SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA AND ELK GROVE CALIFORNIA BETWEEN MY OFFICES.

WE HAVE HAD TO REPAIR THEN REPLACE 2 REAR CRACKED RIMS IN THE 1.5 YEARS WE HAVE OWNED THIS VEHICLE. THE FIRST ONE WAS 3 MONTHS AFTER PURCHASING IT AND THE SECOND ONE WAS IN JANUARY 2019. AFTER NOTICING BOTH TIMES THAT FIRST THE LEFT TIRE WAS LOSING AIR A HAIRLINE CRACK WAS NOTICED ON THE INSIDE OF THE RIM. WE HAD IT REPAIRED AND IT DID NOT LAST SO FOR SAFETY REASONS WE NEEDED TO REPLACE IT. THE SAME THING HAPPENED WITH THE RIGHT SIDE IN LATE 2018. IT WAS AGAIN SUGGESTED WE REPAIR IT, THEN AGAIN THE REPAIR DID NOT HOLD AND WE NEEDED TO REPLACE.