2016 Chevrolet Corvette · symptom sheet
Wheel bearing, tires or wheels
- 59owner reports
- 18,299median miles
- $1,000median quote
- 0involved a crash
Newest report Jan 29, 2025 · checked Oct 2, 2026
59 of the 104 complaints on this car describe wheels, which makes it the most reported problem on the 2016 Corvette.
Tick what matches of 59 reports
Wheels on other Corvette years
Report counts are for each model year on its own, so a newer car has had less time to collect them.
What this problem usually is
This sheet gathers complaints about the parts that meet the road: tires that wear out early or blow out, wheels that crack or bend, lug nuts that come loose, and wheel bearings that start to hum. The median mileage owners give is about 21,000, among the lowest on the site, so many of these are fairly new cars.
What got replaced
Owners who name the part that was replaced mention the wheel (57 reports) and the tires (37 reports).
Recalls and investigations
No recall on the wheels covers the 2016 model year as of Oct 2, 2026.
What owners paid
9 of the 59 reports quote a price. Each dot is one quote. The middle half runs $900 to $1,066.
When it happens
The middle half of failures fell between 12,488 and 30,000 miles, from the 49 reports that gave a mileage.
Is this a known problem?
The manufacturer has sent NHTSA 26 service bulletins or notices for the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette that deal with this problem. Newest first.
Federal rules make a manufacturer send NHTSA a copy of any notice about a defect that goes to more than one dealer or owner. Most of these are service bulletins, the repair instructions manufacturers send to dealers. NHTSA generally leaves safety recall bulletins out of this file, and recalls are listed separately.
This service bulletin provides a procedure on how to clean and resurface aluminum wheel bead seats for vehicles that have the condition of Tire Slowly Goes Flat, Tire Air Loss, Low Tire Pressure Warning Light Illuminated, Aluminum Wheel Bead Seat Corrosion.
This service bulletin provides information on summer tire performance and tire cold weather cracking.
This service bulletin provides information on Chemical Staining, Pitting, Corrosion and/or Spotted Appearance of Chromed Aluminum Wheels.
This Preliminary Information communication provides information to the technician about vehicles with tire sidewall irregularities. This is a visual condition that will not affect durability, reliability or performance of the tires.
22 more on the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette page.
What owners wrote
“Normal driving - about 69,000 miles. Rear wheel rim developed cracks in inner bead lip causing complete loss of inflation.”
Filed Nov 18, 2023 · 69,000 miles
“Rear rims have cracks. Which is causing the car to lose air and it also lose traction.”
Filed Oct 11, 2023
“Wheels are defective and cracked at approx 22k miles normal use. Inside of driver wheel cracked and does not hold air.”
Filed Apr 9, 2023 · 22,000 miles
“Vehicle has less than 8k miles and right rear wheel has a stress fracture on inside of wheel. Zero signs of damage to the tire or anything indicating cause of fracture was from a road hazard. Fracture causes a slow air leak. Hundreds if not 1000s of corvette owners 2015-2019 have had this issue.”
Filed Apr 5, 2022
Should you keep driving it?
This page can't tell you that. 0 of 59 reports involved a crash. Owners who file are the ones who had a bad experience, and nobody checks their reports. If the problem affects steering, braking, power or a fire risk, treat it as a safety fault and have it inspected before a long or high-speed drive.
File your own report with NHTSA. Complaint counts are how a problem gets an investigation. How reports land on this sheet.
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