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You can get HID Xenon conversion kits that will give you near HID lighting. You would need to replace your hedlamps with the HELLA european glass lenses (available from the various Corvette accessory catalogs or Summit Racing) and then use a HID conversion setup that utilizes an H4 bulb. I...

Is the car a daily driver where you use the wipers fairly often? Squeaking may be an indication of some material on the glass. Try cleaning the glass with a good glass cleaner and use one of the soft Scotch-Brite pads and lightly scrub the surface. Rinse completely. Check the surface of the...

I found a 3-sheave pulley for $6 and bought a 10-foot piece of Schedule 40 PVC and built a storage dolly with casters to roll it around the garage. Total cost for everything was under $25.

The two door stickers were printed at the time the car was built so the data on them would have been available only at that time. The door stickers have a GM part number so you might check other cars out and get the part number from them. These numbers may have been superceded or even no...

You could remove the entire soft top and the frame by removing the bolts that hold the ragtop frame to the car. When the top is folded down, you do lose about 6" of height in the rear compartment. Once the top is properly installed, there is no real way to raise the decklid with the top...

Dealership don't have any method of doing electronic unit repairs. Thei service techs are trained to remove and replace components. They can remove the radio and send it out as they mentioned. but you pay for the labor for R&R of the radio (which can be a bunch given that some dealers are...

Cars that sit outside all year long don't seem to have their tires damaged by water or heat from the sun. I would be more concerned about having tires too close to an electric motor or radiation source that produces ozone. Some RV owners shield their tires from sunlight as that helps the tire...

Motor Oil won't break down like gasoline will during long term storage. Gas can break down to the point where it will clog everything in the fuel system and even get to where the engine will not start with old gas. And I haven't heard of a oil stabilizer either! Letting an engine sit for...

Given the apparent low number of miles that you drive, I would change the oil once a year and not really use the oil life monitor as an indicator. I would change it now and be ready for next year. If that is the factory fill oil, I would have changed it after about 1000 miles and...

I have a Hurst shifter on my '02 and while the throws are noticable shorter, it's also stiffer. The package comes with some springs that you can use to change the stiffness so you can tailor it to your comfort level. Some folks have used the C6 shifter handle as a replacement and you get a...

This link: http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/specs/c5/2002/2002order.html is the "Dealer Order Guide" for the 2002 car and it goes into a little more detail as to what is in the different trim level packages and shows the RPO codes for specific items within a package. The "Service Parts...

The analog water temp gauge is not linear in its display. As the needle moves towards the hot side, the temp values in degrees do not increase as much as when the needle is toward the cold side. Once the engine is at operating temp, relatively small changes in the coolant temp will hardly be...

I'm using a AC Delco PF1218 (used on a wide variety of Chevy trucks with both gas and diesel motors in a variety of displacements. It's even used on Hummers with gas and diesel motors!) on my 87 with the KC4 oil cooler and it's only about an inch longer than the old PF25. It does not stick...

USAA for my two Vettes, my Silverado and the house. Been with them going on 23 years.

Any "mechanic" who tells you to remove the lights or cover them is not somebody I would want to touch my car! The CEL ligh is on for a reason and you do need to take action. Take the car to a reputable shop who can use a scan tool to pull the code and fix any problems properly. The paperclip...

You should have around 2 gallons left assuming the fuel gauge sending unit is working properly, the float is not soaked with fuel and the gauge itself is working right. Page thru the gas mileage readouts to see how many miles remain for the gas in the tank. But that value is an approximation...

The Vette Brakes alignment specs for "Daily Driver" on the linked page are not exactly the same as stock but are very close. I use the "Advanced Street" specs on my 87 autocross car and I have not seen any problems for street use. The car runs 275/40-17 tires (Kumho MX's) and there is no...

Where's a good source for the UPF44 UltraGuard Gold filter? I checked with our shop's AC Delco supplier and they do not show them in any of their regional warehouses. We got in a supply of AC Delco filters today and I noticed that about half of them had a sticker on the back panel that says...

GM didn't keep specific records of cars with certain colors/options. You could approximate it by figuring percentages of 6 speed verts and CE verts.

The wheels will be a bit too narrow for the 275 tire as most manufacturers recommend a 9.5" wheel width for this size. They will look a bit strange when mounted but for street use, they should be OK. The 275/40 tire is very close in width and diameter to the original 255/50-16 tire so they...