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Cadillac DeVille Tires/Wheels
My Deville is a base sedan with the 225 60 16 Michelin Symmetry tires. With 44,5xx miles on them they are advertised to go for many more miles. I have found the exact same tires for $107.00 each plus disposal, mounting and balancing at Walmart or Sam's club. I have checked Big O and they quoted $56x.xx may not have included tax. There are several companies with comparable tires at $7x.xx each plus disposal, mounting and balancing. I have had good luck with Goodyear, BF Goodrich, Firestone, Sears, and others on past vehicles. We put tires from a local non chain tire supplier on our last Deville and they worked fine at no more than $300.00 for the set. I was curious if anyone had tried any other brands on the 04 model and how they liked the ride and noise levels with other brands. Thanks for the reply... Bob
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when the car reaches around 40,000 miles, as I still have a fair amount of tread left. Unless you have a local tire store that you have done business with I would suggest you begin the search process by talking with someone (you trust) at the local dealership. I live in the west and we have a chain of stores called Schwab Tire Center, if they are also
in your area suggest you consider the available replacement
options there as a part of your search.
Unless you plan to replace the car in the next year or two I would suggest spending for a good quality tire as the tires are an important component of the performance of this car.
Hope this will help get your started with the replacement process, please let us know what you decide and any important aspects of your selection of the new tires. Best wishes.
tire with the same load range/tread wear rating/size/ply
etc. that came with the car. For me it would all come
down to price...............
Lets face it.......Most tire brands are made by the SAME
company at the same factories. Most likely you are only
paying for the name.
I have put a set of cheapie Pep Boys tires on some of my older cars that were due to be traded soon for less than $200 OTD installed..............
When ready I would like to find a more quiet tire with the same handling characteristics. Have found the present tires a little noisy at speeds of over 60 MPH (freeway driving), I don't have a Sams club near but do have both a Walmart and Costco. Please post when you purchase as this will be valuable input when it's time to replace present tires, Thanks.
Why?
Are you like my MIL, who thinks the billions of dollars of things sold out of Walmart are all 'seconds', things 'quality control' caught on the production line and channels into the distribution systems of Walmart?
If you are looking at Michelin, Goodyear, Bridgestone, etc, the tires at Walmart are just .... tires.
Now maybe their workers mounting the tires are a step down from the local Goodyear shop, but how do you really quantify the difference between dumb and dumber? Or maybe it's 'don't give a durn and seldom gives a durn'.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
they over torqued the lug nuts causing rotor damage to a Chrysler LHS. The Chrysler dealership said the damage was likely a result of the over torquing but was not 100 percent provable. On presentation of the letter from the dealership and in discussion with the store manager, Walmart agreed to pay half the cost of the repair. My 2004 Deville now has 32,000 miles on it and am expecting I will need tires in the next year. I probably will either use Costco since there is someone in the tire shop that has been friendly and helpful in the past. Just as likely I will use a local tire shop with a long and good reputation for quality work in my small community. I was having a wheel vibration last year after a tire rotation and the small shop did a good job of resolving with a spin and balance. They also did an alignment earlier in the year with good results. If I use the small shop I expect to pay more but it is important to me that the likelihood of poor workmanship or damage be kept as low as possible.
As for the vibration you are feeling, there again were several TSB issued in 03 & 04 about the problem. Something to do with a drive shaft balancing and other fixes. Problem is...not covered under recall. If you still have the original warranty or the extended warranty take it to a Cadillac dealership and they can fix it.
The 03 DeVilles are great, most of the "bus" from the 00-01 models were worked out by 03. The vibration, SWP Sensor and the CSP Sensors are the only areas that I have had to address.
It's interesting you should mention road-force balancing because that was what my Cadillac dealer did to my car four times with my old Michelin Symmetrys but to no avail. The Goodyear shop swears that the new tires are in balance; I'm going to have the dealer double-check this but my strong feeling is that it's something other than the tires causing this vibration. I can't imagine it's the brake rotors, especially since the car just rolled over 18,000 miles and even if the rotors were the problem, I would think that I would only get the vibration when I apply the brakes. The vibration happens when I'm going down the highway.
I've been doing some research on my own into this issue and have come up with some possibilities to go over with the dealer when I go see them on Monday, July 9th. I'll be sure to mention the TSB regarding driveshaft balancing about which you wrote. Thanks again for your input and if you or anyone else has any ideas, I'm all ears.
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The reason the N* uses oil is because it is desinged that way. The N* is made to operate at high speeds all day long so the cylinders have an agggressive cross hatch pattern to keep oil on the cyl walls to keep the pistons well lubed. Now if I could just get rid of the vibration at hwy speeds
All would be well. I'll try some of the things I've read in these posts and see if anything helps.
No, unfortunately, I have never gotten rid of the vibration in my 2003 DeVille. It's a little better (and I emphasize "a little"), as it now kind-of comes and goes. For example, last Saturday - August 4th - I drove to the dealership to see my salesman about driving another DeVille to see if it did the same thing. On the way there, there was virtually no vibration at all. On the way home, however, it vibrated. I've been driving back and forth to work on the interstate lately, as opposed to the two-lane highway I usually take due to less traffic. I was hoping maybe the problem just needed to work itself out and as I said, it is a little better but certainly not "dramatically" so, as the Service Manager at the dealership felt it was. All in all, after over four months and counting, the issue still hasn't been resolved to my satisfaction and something tells me it never will be.
As a side note, when I drove my car on my lunch hour today I heard sort-of a "thumping" noise from the rear end whenever I would hit bumps or joints in the pavement. So now I suppose something back there is loose... a suspension component... the exhaust pipe/muffler assembly... who knows!? Then there's the creaking/rattling noise coming from the area of the climate control/stereo head units and ashtray. I took it to the dealership for this problem a while back, which they attempted to fix by replacing the bezel over both head units. It seemed to be fixed for a while but now it's back and every time I hit a sharp enough bump it sets off a cacophonous rattle/creak from that area of the dash. (The problem, I think, lies in the stereo head unit because all you have to do is push inward on it and it makes that creaking noise, which I tend to blame on shoddy workmanship and cheap materials. Sorry, I'm getting away from the main topic of discussion, here...)
Anyway, I drove a 2002 DeVille on August 4th and it vibrated just like my '03 does... a little worse, actually. I now no longer have trouble believing that this vibration is normal behavior for these cars. My salesman said he would get with the Service Manager on the following Monday and contact Cadillac to see if there were any other possible solutions. I'm still waiting to hear back on that one. I won't hold my breath because I may turn blue... (Can you tell I'm just a little exasperated?)
Up until now I've not really been sure what to think but now I'm starting to think, "just get rid of it". Judging by your previous comment, "it's just a car but it may be just somebody else's car soon", I get the impression you're thinking along the same lines...
While paying for the tire/wheel work, I asked the owner is they see many of these problems.
He said "I haven't seen your car, but is it a Cadillac?"
I said 'yes'.
He said they are the worse for this happening. The chrome on the bead isn't good, it will litterly flake off all around the tire. I had taken the tire off and put soap on it, and it was leaking all around the inside of the bead.
Thanks in advance
-Anthony