Here May Be Why Your 2024 Chevy Traverse Has Hood Dimples Or Low Spots
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If you notice dimples or low spots in the middle of your 2024 Chevy Traverse hood when it’s closed and latched, this isn’t the result of damage or a defect, but shows that some of the fittings for the hood may need to be adjusted properly at the dealership.
The hood latch and bumpers may need to be adjusted to stop putting excess tension on the hood of your 2024 Chevy Traverse, causing the sheet metal to bend in specific places.
Hood Dimples
To check if the dimples or indentations are caused by bumpers that need adjustment, the dealer service personnel will release the hood latch. If the issue is the need for bumper adjustment, the dimples will disappear when the hood is unlatched and no pressure or tension is being applied to the hood by the closure. If the indentations remain, then they may result from damage instead.
To adjust the hood properly, the service personnel should move the hood latch up in half-millimeter increments. The half-dozen hood bumpers should be adjusted at the same time to stay in contact with the closed 2024 Chevy Traverse hood. Once the hood can be latched without the indentations appearing, the personnel will stop adjusting the latch upward.
Location Of Hood Bumpers
Finally, the gap along the edge of the hood needs to be measured to ensure it is approximately 4.5 millimeters wide. If it’s wider than this, the hood latch should be adjusted down until the gap is within spec. Finally, the service personnel will road-test your 2024 Chevy Traverse to ensure the hood doesn’t move or flutter while driving.
As a reminder, the all-new third-gen Chevy Traverse cradles a single powerplant for motivation, the turbocharged 2.5L I4 LK0 gasoline engine developing 328 horsepower and 326 pound-feet of torque. This engine is paired with the GM eight-speed automatic transmission, while front-wheel drive is standard and all-wheel drive optional.
Hood Gap
Under the body panels, the 2024 Chevy Traverse rides on a revised version of the long-wheelbase variant of the GM C1 platform. This platform is upgraded with the Global B digital architecture and other modern features. Production takes place at the GM Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan.
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Bring the binder down in the draw press putting more stretch in the panel which will increase the panel stiffness. It is always easier to ruin the binder up rather than shut the press line down and work the die to get proper stretch with out getting splits in the panel.
Better design will not allow “oil canning” of the sheet metal, poor design.
After the comment low spots in hold is not a manufacturing defeat, I think I better understand why GM says 2025 traverse model will have choice 4 cylinder and 6 cylinder. However in same post they say it’ll only have a 4 cylinder. Sounds like at GM the right hand doesn’t know what left hand is doing.
It’s nice to see someone that is actually knowledgeable about the issue. To bozo, spot on sir
What?? Why should the dealer have to make such adjustments on a brand new vehicle? Did the vehicles leave the factory that way or do the deformities develop a short time after leaving the factory?
If they left the factory that way, how did they get thru QC??
Or, if they develop after leaving the factory, what is the root cause? Is it an assembly procedure, design deficiency, or material integrity issue?
Common sense would seem to suggest, if the hood assembly is that flimsy that slight adjustment differentials will cause these dimples, or the potential to vibrate/flap in the wind, then the hood assembly should go back to the drawing board!!
Or maybe I’m just from the old school with higher standards expecting a substantial and quality product for the money we pay!
That’s what happens when they are made as light as beer cans.
With production issues the 2024 Traverse has gone through, I’m wondering if we’ll see the 2025 model before 2026. Is it time to look at Toyota for my 2025 model.
It is either lighter or smaller you choose.
I choose smaller. Unfortunately that means I don’t have a lot of choices anymore.
Too much unsupported flat area, it’s called “oil canning”. Not a new phenomenon except maybe to GM’s no-real world experience designers. Wake up!
Young designers today probably have never heard of oil canning and probably never used or even seen an old oil can with a flat bottom that you pressed with your thumb to squirt oil. We had several different sizes with different spouts to get into tight spots that needed oiling like hinges, linkages, motor bearings and such. I guess that just useless old timer knowledge, oh well. I’ll show my grandsons so they know.
So Much for Quality Control. Made the US Consumer wait for months to get one delivered and this is the product they deliver. I was going to get a 2024 Traverse…I’m looking elsewhere now.
Im just guessing but I think the same QC guy who checks the hoods is also the 3rd row headrest checker!!! They should have just skipped the 2024 model. It was slow out the gate to begin with. They should have stayed with the rebagged 2023 (with a V6 I might add) and functional 3rd row head rests. Starting to sound like Boeing execs are involved.
GM has been building hoods for how long? Oil canning because of thin material? Pick up lids denting in car wahes? More reasons why most GM vehicles are no longer on our shopping list. One exception, my Z06 has been built and is on its way.
I guess I will be keeping my 2000 Chevy Suburban with 180,000 miles, V8 and 4WD on the fly. Was looking at the 2024 Traverse and the 2024 Blazer.
Love my 2012 Silverado that I bought new, I think I will keep it for a while longer.
If the hood is this flimsy and gets out of adjustment so easily, to me this means it is something that will, over time and driving vibration, need adjusting every time it goes in for service. Just two weeks ago I traded in my 2016 Cruze Limited for a new 2024 Malibu LT and keep thinking ” wow, the rear doors seem so much lighter than the ones in the Cruze” but then tell myself that I must be imagining it. After reading this, maybe I am on target.
If you can’t make and install a hood correctly in a multi-billion dollar manufacturing facility with highly skilled and paid UAW Union members, how can you expect a technician in a dealership to fix it with a screw driver and a couple wrenches?
Off subject… What mpg are you getting with the 2.5? City/Highway..