"You only have one job to do..."

[Bailey Guns]

I can see it now. Training a Detroit auto worker: "You only have one job to do. You need to assemble this smaller tube into the larger tube. That's all you have to do to collect your union pay and benefits. Make sure the smaller tube gozinta the bigger tube."

And s/he couldn't even do that. That has got to be the easiest job on the planet.

I needed to take the spare tire off of my Silverado in order to access the underside of the bed to install a 5th wheel hitch. In order to lower the spare tire you need to assemble two pieces of the jack handle and stick it into a hole in the bumper and engage it with the spare tire raising/lowering mechanism. There are two pieces of tubing that guide the jack handle directly to where it needs to be to engage the mechanism. Unless the jack handle is guided through the tube it won't work. The tube consists of two pieces...a smaller one and a larger one. Naturally the dumbass who's supposed to put the smaller piece inside the larger piece, didn't. Now I can't remove my spare tire. Which means I can't install the hitch. Which means all the tools and other items I got out to do the job, I didn't need. Which means I have a 250 pound hitch assembly that's essentially a paperweight. Which means I now have to drive to a Chevy dealer and leave my truck for a day while it's repaired and then drive back to pick it up.

Son of a bitch.

[sniper7]

That sucks!

[ruthabagah]

Yep bad. Did you ever removed the spare on this car before or had the spare replaced / serviced by somebody at the dealership?
I have a car with the same kind of "spare wheel winch". There is a sticker next to the winch hub that shows not to use an impact wrench... Dealer did it anyway, broke the winch (spinning freely) and wanted to charge me for it.

"Me: nope. Not paying, your guy use an impact wrench.
Them- how do you know?
Me - he still has the wrench on the floor next to my tire and by looking at it the socket is NOT for the wheel nut..."

[Bailey Guns]

Yep bad. Did you ever removed the spare on this car before or had the spare replaced / serviced by somebody at the dealership?

Nope...first time. As far as I know the dealer has never removed it. And removing the tire shouldn't cause the issue I'm looking at. These two tubes overlap each other about 4"...there's not way it just slipped apart. It had to have never been assembled properly in the first place.

[spyder]

Went out and looked at my Avy... it's got the old wing nut system lol.

[spyder]

So is the hole too small?

[Bailey Guns]

So is the hole too small?

No...it's just not accessible. I can take the license plate off and bend the smaller tube to the side in order to fit the jack extension into it and bypass the hole in the bumper that it's supposed to go through. But then it won't allow the extension to engage what it needs to engage on the lower mechanism because it's not properly aligned.

[BPTactical]

1/10
No swearing, no emotion, like reading a technical manual.
Poor rant.














And shouldn't it be "Son of a Hitch"?????

[spyder]

Why don't you just borrow someone else's jack handle... or (if I'm reading it wrong) cut out the tubing and guide it in by hand if the tubing is the problem?

[Bailey Guns]

Why don't you just borrow someone else's jack handle... or (if I'm reading it wrong) cut out the tubing and guide it in by hand if the tubing is the problem?

Can't get to the plastic tubing because it's above the spare tire and inside the bumper cavity.

Though I was tempted to pry it out and make Chevy cover the repair under warranty.