Cadillac CTS-V 2004-2007

[Syclone354]

Hello!  I am going to link to this on CadillacForum and the CTS-V section on LS1Tech. 

The 04-07 Cadillac CTS-V was built to be a hot rod luxury car which means everything is mounted in soft rubber to make it super quite and have no vibration.  Well now that they are a couple years old and getting miles on them, that rubber has proved to be a huge weak spot of the drivetrain.  My 2005 has just over 100k miles on it and is showing signs of this everywhere.  The front control arm bushings squeak when cold, the shifter feels like its mounted in jello, the motor mounts and diff mounts are shot which cause an obnoxious clunk sound that any CTS-V owner can relate to.  Some reading online shows that these are all common problems with these cars due to soft, poor quality rubber components.

To the owners, please vote!  I would love to see a master kit for these cars myself, but if there are only certain parts you would be interested in you can vote that way and hopefully we will see the aftermarket for our cars grow.

Thanks!
Tom

[jerrycecco]

The 2004 CTSV is now 5years old.
Many parts on these cars NEED to be replaced.
As a owner for past 5 years, I've been awaiting for many parts..
....some parts have come about...many still need to come out...

The V1 (2004-2007) has now become a performance/$ winner...
My V with 72k miles (which I was told has a trade in worth of $17k)
drives better, is faster and MORE comfortable than any newer GT500 at $45k+++
....BTW, I done with car loans, so a new car is NOT part of my future...

So I plan to keep my V for years and years to come...
.....thus I plan to buy upgrading parts for years to come...

--Jerry

[EnergyGeek]

Thanks for this guys, participation is greatly appreciated

energy

[sojersey05v]

voted.

[lubelizard]

Please add rear cradle bushings, toe rod bushings, driveshaft bushings, and rear control arm bushings.

[tweeter81]

I would love to buy the Master Kit when the time comes, with a few qualifications of course.  The quality of the product must be top notch and if everything that is needed is packaged together in an nice easy kit, that is something that a lot of people (as these cars start to get up there in mileage) would really need.  Good luck and I hope you guys get enough interest to get this stuff built for our badass hot rod Cadillacs.

[SlitheringJoe]

This is long overdue!  Come on Energy, give us bushings and [safe] motor & engine mounts that GM for some reason cannot get right!  Also, let there be different stiffness grades too.

[powerfiend]

Please add rear cradle bushings, toe rod bushings, driveshaft bushings, and rear control arm bushings.

Ditto, plus the items already in the poll.