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- Mar 27, 2003
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- Corvette
- '13 427 60th vert - '21 Silver Flare Coupe - CTS V Wagon(4-door Vette)
Well last week was not my week.
We had thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon with hail and I watched the hail and rain from my office window but I wasn't worried - I drove my '08 Vert to work that day and hail hardly bothers the car. The metal cars in the parking lots got some damage but my Vette was just fine. So far, so good.
Drive the car home and stop once along the way and it's all still good.
Pull into my driveway with the garage door going up and I get all sorts of failure messages like: SERVICE TIRE MONITOR, SERVICE ACTIVE HANDLING, SERVICE ABS, SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL, LOW FUEL - that's when I looked at the gauges and all were reading zero except the battery volt gauge and the tach. Pulled into the garage and checked over everything and figured that a shut down and restart would "reboot" the car. No such luck. In fact, it didn't want to start at. The green circle and even the red and amber lights were out.
Okay, I'll go in and call my dealer to come get the car only it will not let me open the door. Had to use the manual/emergency door release to get out. Not good. I shut the door and it would not let me in either. Used the emergency key and got back in and tried to start - no green circle and no messages telling me that a FOB is not present. Tried the docking slot in the glove box and nothing.
Over the next hour, I disconnected the battery a couple of times to see it would clear up the problems. Once it gave me the green circle and the car started only to go through all the error messages again and zero the gauges again.
The '08 went to the dealer on a flat bed and they managed to duplicate the problem once they got it. It's still there and they are still chasing electrons. I think aliens possessed the car or it just needs a good degaussing.
On top of that, when I opened my house door, there were a lot of service alarms going off inside also. Seems that lightening hit very near my house that afternoon and fried the security alarm, set off the smoke alarms, fried my U-Verse modem, fried one phone and my DVD player. Last Tuesday was not a good day. $2000+ and 5 days later, most of the house is up to speed again and I'm still waiting on the car.
We had thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon with hail and I watched the hail and rain from my office window but I wasn't worried - I drove my '08 Vert to work that day and hail hardly bothers the car. The metal cars in the parking lots got some damage but my Vette was just fine. So far, so good.
Drive the car home and stop once along the way and it's all still good.
Pull into my driveway with the garage door going up and I get all sorts of failure messages like: SERVICE TIRE MONITOR, SERVICE ACTIVE HANDLING, SERVICE ABS, SERVICE TRACTION CONTROL, LOW FUEL - that's when I looked at the gauges and all were reading zero except the battery volt gauge and the tach. Pulled into the garage and checked over everything and figured that a shut down and restart would "reboot" the car. No such luck. In fact, it didn't want to start at. The green circle and even the red and amber lights were out.
Okay, I'll go in and call my dealer to come get the car only it will not let me open the door. Had to use the manual/emergency door release to get out. Not good. I shut the door and it would not let me in either. Used the emergency key and got back in and tried to start - no green circle and no messages telling me that a FOB is not present. Tried the docking slot in the glove box and nothing.
Over the next hour, I disconnected the battery a couple of times to see it would clear up the problems. Once it gave me the green circle and the car started only to go through all the error messages again and zero the gauges again.
The '08 went to the dealer on a flat bed and they managed to duplicate the problem once they got it. It's still there and they are still chasing electrons. I think aliens possessed the car or it just needs a good degaussing.
On top of that, when I opened my house door, there were a lot of service alarms going off inside also. Seems that lightening hit very near my house that afternoon and fried the security alarm, set off the smoke alarms, fried my U-Verse modem, fried one phone and my DVD player. Last Tuesday was not a good day. $2000+ and 5 days later, most of the house is up to speed again and I'm still waiting on the car.