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Oct 21, 2009

BamaRanger09

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Truck Was In The Shop..

Well took the truck to the shop today.. It had been in there since 8:30 this moring and well its 5:30 and i finally got it.. OK well i had a clicking noise in the front end and well i was kinda worried about it so i took it in.. they looked and looked and could not find what the noise was at all. until they called for head quarteres and this is what they said word for word.."Customer states clicking Noise from front end, Advise DIAG, Found over sized tires casueing the chrome cladding on the rim to make wheel pop when driving contacted ford hotline on issue... So what they are saying is since i have the factory wheels the chrome peaiece cant handle the wieght that the tires have on them which is causing them to click against the rim.. This still does not make since to me.. will someone make some light of this.. Ohh and by the way Thankes to josh he hooked me up with the right guy at the service depot.. thankes bro

Oct 21, 2009

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excuse me? BS! what chrome cladding? You talking the chrome plastic wheel covers they put on those trucks? No way the tires caused that.

Oct 21, 2009

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Use a different dealer because that is a bunch of BS.

Clicking sound. 4wd or 2wd?

Oct 21, 2009

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He's coil sprung 2wd

Oct 21, 2009

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Hell, that doesn't even make sense to me

Oct 21, 2009

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thats bs ive heard the ford place up here tell all kinds of people em storys. thats pretty much em saying i dont know what it is so thay make something up and blame it on you. take it to another dealer

Oct 21, 2009

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Noone wants to deal with a warranty vehicle. They don't make **** off you!

Oct 21, 2009

rudy2k7

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BS ive had oversized tires on my 2000 for 2 years and it dont make no clickin sound

Oct 21, 2009

Fx4wannabe01

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Ford said 32" mud terrains caused the Tcase in Cory's '07 truck to make noises. LOL!

Oct 21, 2009

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take chrome off and see if noise goes away.it doesnt look bad with them off either.and you may like the look

Oct 21, 2009

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take chrome off and see if noise goes away.it doesnt look bad with them off either.and you may like the look

love the crome look... and besides.. i just got back from looking at it and its not even loose.. oso time to go to another dealer ship....

Oct 21, 2009

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what you need to do is take them off and take it back in back in and show them that it wasent that and make them seem like idiots, well thats what i would do

Oct 21, 2009

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wait actually think about this. doesnt the chrome come to the lip of the rim...

he is BFG tires with rim guard that goes over the lip... if there is side wall flex it could pop the chrome lip on the cover

Oct 21, 2009

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Stone speaks with wisdom.

Oct 21, 2009

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try installing a different set of tires/wheels and see if it goes away

Oct 21, 2009

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I think me and josh are going to try and do that hopefully this weekend... So we will see.. But the chrome piece is still stuck to the rim.. so i dont know. we will see soon..

Oct 22, 2009

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the chrome piece is a hubcap? if so it makes sense. lots of vehicles have clicking sounds coming from hubcaps everytime they hit a bump in the road. it is due to tire flex in most cases as stated above

Oct 22, 2009

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I think me and josh are going to try and do that hopefully this weekend... So we will see.. But the chrome piece is still stuck to the rim.. so i dont know. we will see soon..

its only stuck to the rim with glue on the spokes not the edges so that could be doing it just enough to make noices