hi all, new here, found you guys while searching for a fix...

I have an 06 h3 lux Boulder grey, tinted windows and KBC SPY wheels wearing some nitto terra grapplers.... but....

the story begins.... I bought the H3 about a month ago, with a small chip in the windshield...no biggy, worked a deal for x amount off and the dealer said they'd toss in a new one...cool....or not so cool as it were.

couple of weeks later the windshield guy and i head to my H3 to proceed in the removal of what seems like half the truck[:@]... only to get to the roof markers, popped the bolt covers, attempted to remove the bolts only to find out that 3 of the 6 just spin in thier holes, I.E. the bolt AND the nut are turning. OK, this is not in mr windshield guy's job description so he baggs the project and tells me to bring the 3 to the dealer....fine....or so i thought.

Now, it was at the dealer for a week, yeah, a week, apearantly 6 bolts and a windshield is rocket science and they needed to fly someone in from NASA...i dunno, they said they had to drill out the bolts...dont ask, i dont know how you can drill out a bolt that just free spins....anyway, they destroyed 3 of the 6 bolts and said they replaced the molly type fasteners in the roof....however they could not get th right bolts from hummer to re affix the bar....uh huh..... Apearantly these bolts are made of unobtanium...I dunno. So today they said the bolts came in and it's done.... uh huh....

on day 7, today I go to pick up my 3 with new windshield and secured lightbar....great, it's a good day tater.....but no, at 60 mph, my roof went into the vibration from hell, sounded like a buncha chicks with vibrators in my headliner..... i knew imeadiatly that it was the lightbar, no biggy, but alas, they monkeyfu@*ed my bar...... i cannot tighten up the 2 center bolts any tighter, one is what seems to be glued in...????? wtf???

does anyone on the foum have a pic of what the in roof fasteners look like for this kit? i swear the dealer just smeared some adheseive in te holes and attempted to secure it....3 of the 6 bolts are of a different size torx head.... the bar has dings from where they butchered the bolts off and now,the vibrator effect....

can i just run a bead of silicone accross the gap? anyone tried this? also any trick to getting the pillar trim to fit tighter?

i go back to the stealer tommorrow to blow a gasket, i'm just leery of leaving it again in the hands of the Special Ed auto shop class so if i can perform the fix myself, without elmers glue and duct tape like the dealer, i'd do it.

i'd like to know what the blts screw into first.... i'd imagine some type of expanding nut, and any tips on reducing vibrations if i cannot get the issue resolved through the corky's auto repair and window licking..

I seriously want to crack some skulls at the dealer....sigh....


thanks for your time
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Try reading this: https://www.hummerforums.com/m_8907/tm.htm

I have the roof markers also, but they came on my truck and have had no problems with them yet at 12,000 miles except that the drivers side A Piller cracked and they STILL don't have the replacement for it yet. But it hasn't caused any problems yet so I'm not stressing too much about it. I just keep calling and asking if it came in yet. Sooner or later they will get tired of me calling


You are just stuck with the gap that you are talking about, the "bar" isn't long enough to fill it in evenly.

BLUF: Make the dealer fix it. If THEY tore up my bar I would demand a new one!

 

thanks for the link, seems like a known issue, sadly, my bar had no vibration before the dealer laid his hamfists on it.... I'll be looking for a new bar, if there's a silver lining, i can get the newer, redesigned one.... worst case scenerio, silicone.... seems cheesy for a vehcle as nice as this, caulk is fine for an 82 nissan sentra station wagon but uh.... I'd rather not muck up my ride.

call me crazy but there needs to be another screw in the a pillar trim, under the lense would be perfect.... I may just drill a hole and shoot a self tapper into it.... bummer for your crack.... is it me or does hummer seem to have trouble getting replacement parts out?

 

No problem. I usually don't have any problems with them doing anything. I have no complaints of my dealership of the service dept as of yet. Just for some reason this one thing has taken forever to get fixed.

I would still see about getting them to replace it for you since they messed it up while they were trying to "fix" it.

 

no doubt my first course of action will be to demand a new bar...
thanks, I'll post my results....

I wonder, do the off road light bar and the marker light bar share the same bolt centers? i may just forgo the daler and swap out bars on my own, at least I'll know it's installed correctly....

 

Funny that you asked that, I JUST opened my new Hummer Catalog that came today and turned to the page with the Roof Markers and the Off Road Light Bar. In the pic it looks like the holes may match up. The Off Road bar also appears to carry all the way from side to side. Hummer wants $430 for it, but that is actually $100 less than the roof markers.

 

hmmm.... good to know....


thanks