Other wheel or tire problem on the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 15,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 9,000 miles and a quarter after 20,000 miles, from 142 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 4,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 28,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 23,693 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A window that narrow is the signature of a part that fails on its own schedule rather than on how the car is driven — which is usually a design or supplier problem rather than wear and tear.
94% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,007 miles | 9,050 miles | 15,000 miles | 20,000 miles | 27,700 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 15 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2014, at a median of 900 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 70,000 miles.
By volume the 2017 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Both left wheels on my 2017 grand sport bent in normal driving over normal roads. In researching the issue, this seems to be a recurring problem with the stock wheels on 2017-2018 corvette grand sports and 2015-18 corvette z06s. Gm agreed to replace the front wheel, but the dealer didn't realize the rear was also bent (no visible damage to either wheel, the wheels are just not strong enough). Gm is now claiming they won't fix/replace the rear wheel. Car vibrates because of the bent wheel.
Had 3 of the 4 rims bend, per the dealer diagnosis, for no apparent reason. Car had 2,000 miles on it. It seems to be a systemic problem. There are multiple posts about this issue, along with the wheels cracking for no reason, at the following internet forum; https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/c7-general-discussion-142/ in my instance the car drove fine the evening before (I'd actually picked it up from the dealer the same day as they repaired another issue). Got in the car the next morning to go to work and noticed the bad vibration. I thought a wheel weight had fallen off. Took it to the dealer and after diagnosis they informed me that 3 of the 4 rims were bent (both passenger side and driver rear).
Gm is putting defective wheels on grand sport and z06 corvettes. These wheels will not withstand normal driving on any highway. The issue is that these wheels bend on impact, be it expansion joints along bridges or small imperfections in the roadway that other cars handle every day. The issue is that gm says these are road hazards and they are not responsible. The wheels were not engineered to take normal driving on roads anywhere. This started in june after a trip I took and the car picked up a vibration. Took it to s dealer and he said the wheels were bent and not covered under warranty and would sell me new ones 2 front wheels for about $1800. I then took the car home and took the front wheels off and had them straightened at a cost of $110 each. I thought that took care of the problem so we drove the car on another trip to nova scotia, canada. We were on a trip and lost air in the left front tire ( picture below ) it had worn all the way down through all the belts due to the wheels being bent again. See all 3 pictures. These wheels are a safety hazard for these cars to use on public highways as they develop cracks and cause…
Also reported on the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette
Wheel, stud or lug nut failure
Other steering problem
Tire pressure monitor failure
Infotainment screen failure
Other engine problem
Other driver assistance problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 190 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other wheel or tire problem happen on the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette?
Across 142 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 15,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 9,000 miles and a quarter after 20,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette?
190 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 5.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed