Could you take some pictures of the problem area?
Hi Jinra
Really appreciate your help. I’ve left work now so will take some pics when I get back. Not too sure if it would help to be honest. For the front wheels, is it speed ring, wheel, speed ring and then nut? My first speed ring is like its part of the truck as I tried to flick it off with a knife but no luck.
Hm that’s weird, the speed ring, or washer, should be free floating be able to come off the truck. Maybe it’s deformed and got stuck to the truck and is rubbing against the bearing shield. I’d try to get it off and replace it.
The order should be (Speed ring, bearing, spacer, bearing, speed ring, axle nut) in terms of what goes on the axle.
Hi, Yesterday i was swaping my gt from AT to street for the first time and noticed the exact same thing on my front left wheel. The speed ring is stuck on the truck and can’t get it off. That is not the same case on any other of the wheels though. @bornagainskater , it may sound stupid but why don t you open the cover to check if there is something loose in there?
Mate … Take the front truck entirely off…
Look where the base plate is touching the board…look for cracks inside … You can use books to elevate the front end where the trucks would go…have someone light stand on it and lightly bounce and check (use a flash light) and listen
Edit: the sound in the video sounds like a small crack resonating from the board…sounds like it’s only one side … Does it make a sound more or less if you turn left or right
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Hi Michaelinvegas
I’ve taken the front apart but have not noticed any cracks. I did manage to take the speed rings off the front and replace them. The vibrations are still there 
Humm … Have you had someone stand on it… Sometime cracks aren’t apparent when they are not under stress…
Other than this…I have no clue…but being Mr. Obvious …there’s something fucked up with your board lol
I had a manufacturing defect with one of the grip-plate screws on my Evolve Carbon GT. The hole tapped for the screw was too big, it had either been tapped with the wrong size or the screw somehow pulled and stripped some of the internal threading. Here is a video of what the problem looked like:
The only way to fix this permanently is to either re-tap the hole to a bigger size (The standard screws are M4x12mm countersunk hex bolts) and stick a bigger screw (ie. M5) into it, or attempt to repair the threading with something like a heli-coil kit. Because this was a manufacturing defect I could have sent it back to Evolve to have it fixed but their store is over an hour drive from me and I don’t own a car; alternatively it’s $20 each way to courier my board to them and have it returned, so $40 minimum to get them to fix it. So I did what any poor person does and try to fix it myself.
I firstly tried purchasing a M5x12mm bolt to see if that would fit - I couldn’t get it to tighten down very far because these bolts have a different thread pitch than their smaller cousins and are significantly fatter. So the next thing I tried was to cut half of the thread off that bolt and try again - still no go. The threading pitch is just too different. I looked into getting a heli-coil repair done but was told that in order to get the basic heli-coil kit and some thread inserts would be at least $80+. To get a professional to fix it starts at $88. So the next most viable option is to buy a 5mm hand-tap kit and re-tap the hole to 5mm at a cost of about $11, but I wasn’t too excited about having an odd-sized bolt on the board. So in a last ditch attempt to make the M4 bolt hold it down while still being able to remove it for maintenance later, I took a section of plastic drinking straw the length of the bolt thread and cut a section out of it so that the curled section matched the internal diameter of the thread and dropped the straw into the screw hole. I then screwed the original M4 screw into the hole with the straw as a shim around the outside which massively improved the fit and so far is holding the bolt in place. A fix for free!
As an aside - it is well worth checking that your grip-panel is being held securely onto your board if you have a carbon deck, because if it isn’t, all sorts of dust/dirt/stones and WATER will get inside, and the molded cavity in there that holds circuit boards, wires and batteries doesn’t have any drainage holes, so if it starts taking in water or a spilled can of coke, it will wreck the electronics and make for a very expensive repair.
Here’s what the board looks like with the hood off! Because I had that loose screw for a few weeks, the electronics bay had dust and little stones in it which I vacuumed out. Glad I got curious and took it apart before something more serious happened.
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Forgot the company name but they are not Samsung cells…it’s some random chinese battery maker lol
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$2000 board and they can’t use brand name cells? 
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They have to make a profit from somewhere with the risk of possible issues
Evolve sell a retail product, of course they wouldn’t use “Brand name” batteries.
not sure what this means. A lot of well established brands use quality name brand cells for their products.
Doesn’t seem to be that many “well established” brands of esk8?
That’s besides the point. Tesla sells a retail product, and they use Panasonic cells. Not sure what having a retail product and using quality cells has to do with each other.
lol thats a car and it costs heaps!
Evolve could have used Panasonic cells but then the price would be higher. They have to keep costs down to compete with all the new companies.
Tesla basically owns the market at this time. Tesla probably use Panasonic because they are big enough to supply them with enough product.
I still don’t agree that it’s obvious that retail boards don’t use brand name cells. You don’t have to be big to use quality cells, just look at enertion.
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Not because Tesla is big. Panasonic is big enough to supply tesla. They make heaps of cars, need heaps of batteries.
Not really the point of this forum though.
The point is I haven’t heard heaps of people having problems with GT batteries. Mine still holds charge well. Board still goes hard as advertised. (just because it’s chinese doesn’t mean it’s automatically crap)
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It does mean potential fire hazards. I wouldnt want to be charging it overnight. Look what happened to this hoverboard batteries. Some guys house caught on fire due to one of those things exploding.