At dealership - need help ASAP!

lionseye640 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:41 am

Problem: rotational thumping noise from front end. Sounds similar to flat tire. Goes away when brakes are applied. Loudest around 30/35 mph (haven't gone over that by much though). Brake calipers are tight, lugs are tight. Please help - I'm sitting at the dealership right now. Thanks!

ZERO6 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:45 am

Could be any thing from a bad strut to broken or loose
sway bar, junk stuck in tire tread from road hazards,
.....on and on. Could be any thing without looking at it.

Up date please.

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:47 am

When I had that happen last year, it ended up being the strut.

ZERO6 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:53 am

Who? Lionseye640?

jeepfrog · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:54 am

ZERO6 wrote:

Who? Lionseye640?

Yup.

ZERO6 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:56 am

Oh, K, now , see left stuff out....

Forgot to tight summthin!

ZERO6 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:01 am

See, leaving things out of the equation.
Thats like saying I have a tranny leak, and
not saying you worked on it last week. DUH!
Any how good luck, fingers crossed and ect.ect....

DryBones · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:05 am

I'm blaming Tom! :lol:

ZERO6 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:06 am

Thats funny, thts Y I love it in here..... :lol:

jeepkj02 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:13 am

I recall someone posting on here that they got a Frankie with a loose upper strut nut/mount. Might want to check to see if that is tight.

sprsonic · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:06 pm

jeepkj02 wrote:

I recall someone posting on here that they got a Frankie with a loose upper strut nut/mount. Might want to check to see if that is tight.

those were both tightened before the lift went on, possible front brake pad to caliper shims fell out? had one make the same noise you're describing just last night. the pad shims were missing from the previous brake job at a local michael tire shop. good luck

lionseye640 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:44 pm

Ok so here's the update - just got the KJ back and the big problem was that the shop it went to last night (where they tightened the caliper) didn't tighten everything down ... supposedly. The dealership said that the caliper was still loose and that since one of my lug nuts didn't have the cap on it, that could've been it too. They also rebalanced the tire, saying "that could also have been making the noise". Grrrr I hate dealerships! :evil:

Thanks all! I'll keep this post updated if it comes back... again :roll:

ObiHann · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:31 pm

jeepkj02 wrote:

I recall someone posting on here that they got a Frankie with a loose upper strut nut/mount. Might want to check to see if that is tight.

That was tom, and he found it when he was doing the installs a bit back, and she was one of the installs. Or so I think

lionseye640 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:33 pm

ObiHann wrote:

jeepkj02 wrote:

I recall someone posting on here that they got a Frankie with a loose upper strut nut/mount. Might want to check to see if that is tight.

That was tom, and he found it when he was doing the installs a bit back, and she was one of the installs. Or so I think

I was the install, but Tom caught the problem, and it was all tightened up. :wink:

corwyyn · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:59 pm

lionseye640 wrote:

...and that since one of my lug nuts didn't have the cap on it, that could've been it too.

Yer kidding right? Heck I'm missing a half-dozen of the caps on my lug nuts and never have had a noise due to it. Loose caliper causing noise I could see (particularly if your rotor was a bit warped), out-of-balance tire I could maybe see causing a noise but a missing lug nut cap???

Glad you got it out and hopefully it'll be a long time before you have to go to the dealer again

DryBones · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:00 pm

I'm still blaming Tom :lol:

lionseye640 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:08 pm

DryBones wrote:

I'm still blaming Tom :lol:

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:54 pm

FYI....Double posting is not allowed. Your post in the 4x4 section was deleted since it had the fewest responses.

lionseye640 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:49 pm

Tokyojoe wrote:

FYI....Double posting is not allowed. Your post in the 4x4 section was deleted since it had the fewest responses.

Sorry about that. I didn't realize it went through until I got to work & used a real computer - posting by cell phone issues. Thanks for deleting it!

KJ04 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:20 am

lionseye640 wrote:

Ok so here's the update - just got the KJ back and the big problem was that the shop it went to last night (where they tightened the caliper) didn't tighten everything down ... supposedly. The dealership said that the caliper was still loose and that since one of my lug nuts didn't have the cap on it, that could've been it too. They also rebalanced the tire, saying "that could also have been making the noise". Grrrr I hate dealerships! :evil:

Thanks all! I'll keep this post updated if it comes back... again :roll:

Send Tom the bill! :lol:

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