# Service bulletin 16\-NA\-316

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10137966
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-05\-21
- Manufacturer's number: 16\-NA\-316
- Manufacturer's date: 2016\-11\-03
- NHTSA component: EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY; EQUIPMENT; POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:AXLE SHAFT

## NHTSA's summary

This technical bulletin provides a procedure to drill two holes in the rear axle housings to spray lubricant into and then close up with rivets to correct a condition of a rear axle creak noise due to the improper lubrication of some of the internals.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10137966-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10137966-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Equipment and accessories, Transmission and driveline, Axle

## Vehicles listed

- 2016 to 2017 CHEVROLET CRUZE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [16NA316](/bulletins/10135266.md), 2018-05-07, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY:BANJO HOUSING; BACK OVER PREVENTION. This technical bulletin provides a procedure to drill two holes in the rear axle housings to spray lubricant into and then close up with rivets to correct a condition of a rear axle creak noise due to the improper lubrication of some of the internals.
- [16\-NA\-316](/bulletins/10118962.md), 2017-10-15, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY. This technical bulletin provides a procedure to drill two holes in the rear axle housings to spray lubricant into and then close up with rivets to correct a condition of a rear axle creak noise due to the improper lubrication of some of the internals.
- [PIC6223A](/bulletins/10113473.md), 2017-08-15, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY. This Preliminary Information communication advises the technician that the Rear Axle is no longer on restriction.

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