Rear Brake/Axle Groan...

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Originally Posted by fourfourto

GM engineers will be redesigning the rear brakes and will probably issue a recall when they've worked out the noise problem.

F5 Any official word that gm engineers are working on this?


I know who exactly to call on this one.

Who?

Well, I thought I did, but it appears when I was off for three weeks, service engineering had a re-org in some of the areas. So, the engineer in charge of brakes is not someone I would call. However, from other sources, there is nothing spectacular about the rear brakes, basically a carryover design from another series.
But, I'm not done calling....

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Well I just got a call from HCS manager susan,The hummer cust rep I talked to last week gave me wrong info,they will not do a repair without OK from field rep.I called dealer sevice and cancelled appt for friday.He will try again to get in touch with the field rep...Here we go again GRrr Grr grr


I guess its a matter of time(long time).I will just keep calling


F5 any new info on the brakes would be GR8 Thanks

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You know, this is really disconcerting. For those of us WITH the horrendous groan .. where it is SO loud and the driver can feel it in the pedal .. it doesn't give the Hummer owner a real good feeling about their vehicle. I love my H3 .. the look and drive of it. But, I hate all of the calls I had to make to GM/Hummer, leaving messages, not getting calls back, trips to the dealer, then trips to the OTHER dealer quite a distance away ... it's NOT the way this should be when you buy a brand new vehicle. I know from having vehicles throughout my life that their are little things that come up .. but in my opinion, this is major, time-consuming and does NOT add to the enjoyment of the vehicle. Something really needs to be done for those of us who have this issue, like finding a fix. They hear it and they agree it's 'something', but to push it off as "something normal for H3's" and not being a safety issue is not good enough. The driver knows something is wrong .. and the people outside of the vehicle and/or the passengers INSIDE the vehicle look in amazement at the horrendous sound. Had to vent.

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fourfourto, any updates yet??

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I still say it is the t/case

[fourfourto]

I tryed calling the hummer CSR manager she hasnt got back to me with a update yet.The dealers still saying cant reach field rep.

Just living with the noise for now.

F5 I dont beleve its the tranfer case because the noise wouldnt have gone away when pads were replaced and the dealer confirmed the noise is comming from the brake area?..But what do they know?

No new updates on the brakes ? any mention of a problem?

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No apparent problem with rear brakes on the H3, or the 1/2 ton pickups that use the same system. That doesn't mean it isn't the problem on your vehicle or Hmmmm3. Two vehicles or even 100 times your two vehicles would not affect warranty that much on a vehicle with the sales number the H3 has.
But your symptoms sure sound like mine, and the noise went away with a new t/case.