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Sorry Bryan...Message was supposed to go to Ron...
I must of had you on my mind for some reason, and not thinking, just typed in your name. Old age here..???!!...Naaaaa probably because I was searching through ebay alittle for you to see if I could spot any of your original GM 18" chrome wheels... Nope..No luck yet !! Anyway , good talking to you.....
Frank
Later....
Frank
Naaaaaaaaaa...it's all relative, including age.. Right!!
I think it's the maturity factor here , age and other, that
sets this Message Forum apart..... A great bunch of guys...!!!
Thanks
Frank
Have the wheels and tire been balanced by a Roadforce balancer with a knowledgeable tech?
I'm wondring how much of this may be similar to the stiff chassis problems with H and C bodies a few years ago. On mine the Michelins were off less than 11 units on the roadforce. I could still feel the one tire when it was on the front. BUT what fixed it all was realigning the rear toein. It had changed since the factory set it.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Sounds like Imadazol has some personal knowledge. The only thing I'd add is to ask if you had the tires rotated to see if the vibration follows one of the wheels. Hope you get to the bottom of it quickly. I feel for ya.
Ron
Sorry to hear about your problem.. It certainly can be aggravating, I know. When you say your garage, is it your local corner shop or is it Your GM Dealership..? I ask because I personally think it still likely a balancing problem here. You have gone from a 65 mph vibration down to a 45 mph vibration and this can be based on who and how he balanced your wheels!!! Rob, go to the very best, even for tire balancing ,because my experience is that.. " their are wheel balances and then there are wheel balances" with the proper technicians and proper equipment..Now, lets see if we can isolate this ...Usually, when you feel a vibration in your seat and shifter it's the rear tire(s) and any noticable vibration in the steering wheel is most often the front tire(s)... You can take it from here......
Good luck .. and keep us posted
Frank
Well ...I don't want to be a pessimist here .. but, just want you to be aware and prepared...
In my experience, this seems to be the pattern when the OS battery is on its way out ..One day its green and the next day its red, and so on and so on....and until one fine day, it just stays "RED" !!
As I think I said sometime ago, the battery is located in your trunk and is about the size of a candy bar.The tecnician can change it and reset the sysem in a matter of minutes ...It's very painless..doesn't hurt at all...!!
Hope you prove me wrong though..!!
Frank
Anyone else hear this or have any experience here...???
Thanks for the help..
Frank
Two questions:
1. The Sienna drive by wire suffers from delays and sometimes erratic responses (not always predictable), as it also learns a drivers style. This is well documented in the Toyota forums. I hate it. Does the 06/07 impala have drive by wire, and how are drivers finding its responsiveness to driver input.
2. The Sienna vvti has some feature (vvti?) whereby at around 3500 rpms, some change (maybe the valves) occurs and the engine sound becomes noticeably louder/coarser. Does the 3.9L impala have the same annoying feature, and at what rpm does it occur. It is mostly noticeable at highway cruising speeds.
Thanks in advance and this message is in no way intended to flame the impala. I love my current impala and really want to upgrade to the 07.
It's a Good question...
Actually, it's a personal and yet a performance thing..!!!
The issue here is not that the stock filter is new and
not dirty at this point. It all has to do with air flow into the engine ...i.e. less restrictive and better flowing intake(air in) makes more Horsepower and better gas mileage etc. etc. Performance mods are ok ..I've done my share lately as long as you have the permission from your dealer..
Thanks
Frank
Nope..!!...So sorry if I gave you that impression. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the stock GM air box filter
in our Impalas. It's just a matter of a less restrictive - better air flow filter that the K & N supposedly provides. This is somewhat important for street machines but much more important if your racing. I can remember the days when I would be looking for every tenth of a second and/or mile per hour that I could find..... Hope this helps....
Talk to you later
Frank
Carl
In that cycle of stiff H-body and G-body (Park Ave) and C-body Cadillacs in 2000 or so the tires made the difference. They replaced Cadillac tires and Park Ave IIRC with Michelins as a troubleshooting method because the Michelins tend to be best made and roll round under the crush force--that's what the Hunter 9700 RoadForce balancer checks for.
My car came with Michelins and had one at 11 or 12 and others in single digits. The tolerance level was 17 or 18 or 19 units of out of roundness. Many other brands were off that much and more but the stiff chasses can magnify the effects. Even new tires and wheels would come out high. The dealer was replacing tires on a Pontiac under warranty and the new set was off more than the tolerance level.
A good thing is the slight roadforce error seemed to get better as the tires ran more miles. I suspect the belts softened from flexing and rolled better.
I haven't heard that problem discussed in Impala discussions. But a good dealership will probably have a Hunter 9700. Like someone just said, sometimes it's cheaper to have someone troubleshoot than hunt and peck.
Hunter 9700 info and list of stores using it
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
But some dealerships don't work that well, I understand.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Well, If I understand it correctly, that is the main purpose for the On Star battery in the trunk...It's a safety feature for if your regular battery goes down. But don't leave it like that for days, as I have found out ..it will totally drain and knock out the On Star battery altogether and then it has to be replaced ....The Red light "on" usually means trouble with On Star battery or the system at our end ,but be at peace, the On Star system at their end is still operational.
Does this make sense ????...Hope it helps !!!!
Frank
Then they also checked balance on the wheels using the Hunter. And they set the sensitivity to maximum on the Hunter so they could get the best accuracy on the balance. Let us know what you find out.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
It is absolutely wicked weather out there today, and I have decided to keep my baby in the garage all day.
'Ya, We just got hit here with our first large snow fall of the year....wicked stuff !!! Sorry,..Even though I was born and raised here in Toronto...I still hate the stuff..!! :mad: No, I'm not a skier..
So far, we've received about 15 cm (6 inches)of the white stuff and they say it should slow down around lunch time.On a more positive note, it should be gone in a day or two.
Wow, I really feel sorry for you guys out farther west i.e. in the Hamilton, Waterloo, Buffalo, & Niagara Region ...
Up to 50 cm ( 20 inches) for you today !!! This is a bit much...!!!!!! So, all you Impala brothers down in the warmer US states....Be blessed...!!!
Later.....
Frank
The only remaining problem is trying to get my windshield washer fluid to thaw so I can replace it with some lower freeze point stuff assuming I can find some.
Good morning to you in NJ....!!
'Ya, you might consider me a Toronto
Blue Jays fan , but certainly not a fanatical one.
I love cars too, too much.. My wife says that I need to get a life... Naaaaaa, not at this point..too much fun !!
Good chatting Bryan, Hope you get a quick thaw as well.
Later......
Frank
I've been enjoying all of your great posts and the camaraderie here. One thing I'll hope you will consider...we like to keep our make/model discussions strictly about the vehicle as it makes it easier for new people to jump in with questions they may have about the car. So for the off topic stuff, it would be appreciated if you posted that in the Chevrolet Impala: Meet the Owners topic.
Thanks!
In my humble opinion, it's a little of the personal and off topic stuff mixed in with the great topical messages here that made this particular '06 + Impala message forum a more personable, friendlier, safer and helpfull place to be and go ...
Take care everyone....
Regards, Al.
Well, I was supposed to take my gorgeous Black on Black
into the Dealership yesterday to finally get my Coax Antenna replaced. Ya-know that Fob thing that most of us are STILL having big problems with..!! So,I had to re-schedule my appointment to this Tuesday because of the recent snow storm we had here (I'll be carefull not to go there again...!!). Now that I have taked about my car a little, can I be a little personal ?! OK, OK, so I'm probably being a bit sarcastic now ... Well anyway, I'm a little troubled at this point because it appears that we have lost our friend Bryan ... After post # 2509,( our little slap on the wrist), he wrote # 2510... " So Long..." "Take care everybody.." This just dosn't feel right to me.. Has anyone else picked-up on this ?? :confuse: I sure hope i'm wrong .. He's a valuable member of the family here!!
Frank
I have one of the first (purchased August 15, 2006) of the 2007 LTZ's with the 3.9L V-6, and I'm here to say that the engine works flawlessly.
I'll also say that I also own a 2007 Avalanche that has the 5.3L V-8, Flex-fuel, that also has the cylinder de-activation (purchased June 28, 2006) and it has 10,000 miles on it now including 800 some miles pulling a 30 foot travel trailer and it also has worked flawlessly.
It's NOT the same system that Caddy had back in the 80's!
Russ
Thanks!
Also, since it's always the same cylinders which de-activate, I wonder about uneven cylinder wear. Was one of the deciding factors when we opted for an '06 LTZ instead of an '07.
Al.
I like to think that the 4-6-8 fiasco was a hard lesson that would cause GM to make sure they got it right this time around. Time will tell....
As for the 3.9L with DOD, there was one post on one of these forums where the owner was having a electrical issue when driving at night with DOD engaged. His lights flicker while in 3 cyl mode. It's shown up on a few and GM is working the issue. I'd rate that one an annoyance rather than a major problem...at least at this point. I like to remain optimistic.
It's kind of strange. Is anyone out there willing to try this in their '06+ Impala to see if it's something peculiar to mine or if they all do it?
Thanks,
Ron
car radio should be able to receive AM stations 200 miles away.
jt
This gets me to another question. Is there some way for us "commoners" to get access to these TSB on our cars? Sometimes it seems that thaere are "things" that GM has found that nned to be fixed but unless we know to ask, they don't get fixed. It would be nice to check out the buukletins for a particular car once a month so we can see what need to be done to correct a problem
http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/maintenance/articles/44745/article.html
jt