Originally Posted by keeks2915

Sorry to hear about that.

Is there something in the manual about not hammering the car until 1,500 miles?

Regardless this sounds like something different, but I am wondering if GM can somehow pull history on tach and determine redline advice was ignored and try to hoop you.

I would imagine if this issue becomes a trend they will be trying to squirm out of as many $25 k repairs as they can.

Originally Posted by lawdogg149

Well bad news today! Last Friday I had a catastrophic failure of my engine in my 2015 Z06. I was out putting some more miles on the car to get ready for my track event at road atlanta Jan 10 and 11. While making a pull from 35 mph I accelerated and shifted short of redline and boom. Car began knocking. I pulled over and popped hood. Could hear a loud knock coming from # 6 cylinder area along with a serious grinding metal on metal sound coming from the supercharger area.

Had Gm roadside service come tow the car to the dealership. Beware gm will only pay for 25 miles. My dealer which is the closest corvette certified dealer was over 40 miles away. I had to pay the overage of $40 out of my pocket. I will be fighting with GM over this one.

Dealer called today and said there was indeed failure in #6 valve train. They were instructed not to tear into the engine because it needs to be evaluated by them.

They gave me two options.

1. Allow Gm to take apart the engine and patch repair it. This option would of kept my original numbers matching engine in the car.

2. Replace the engine as a whole. This was the best option in my opinion due that I track my cars alot. I dont want any more issues with this engine.

So dealer went ahead and notified GM to send another engine. Who knows how long this will take. I really fell bummed out with GM right now. Sure this is a first year car and I understand that. But this is not the first time I have had to do R&D for the big GM. Just last year I was the first private owner to track my C7 Z51. That car over heated on a November cool day down here at Road Atlanta. Both the Transmission (M7) and engine. I made a post here and notified the engineering dept through my dealer. No one even followed up or cared.

My biggest surprise of this situation is that GM wasn't surprised at all about this situation. Seems this has occurred before with the test fleet vehicles.

I come here and post to not to bash GM but to warn you fellow Corvette owners before you go out and tune or modify your cars. Sure this may of been a issue in just a few but there was alot of looking into my computer files and such to find any mods. Sure GM would love to not have to pay for this $23,999 engine.

I will keep this thread update. Please please trolls dont destroy this thread with useless comments.

Originally Posted by occar

That sucks, but statistically a few engines are going to fail. What matters is how they handle it at this point.

Originally Posted by lawdogg149

Nope. Manual says break in is 500 miles. And not to track the car for the first 1500 miles. That is just to protect the trans and rear end for than anything. 891 miles or 2000 miles wouldnt of made a difference in my case. Engine was indeed broken in right with the 540 mile drive back from Rick Conti's in columbus OH back to north GA.

Originally Posted by FiremanC7

Lawdogg, my car was built just before yours (#354) and I have similar mileage, so I'll be watching mine carefully. I haven't been able to push mine too much with all of the traffic in my area. With all of the rain we get (and being below sea level) our roads suck, but I have found a few that have promise.

Thanks for the heads up on the towing issue as my dealer is about 50 miles from home.

Did you notice any fluctuations in your DIC info prior to the failure?

Hope GM handles this quickly!

BobD

Originally Posted by H2LS3

Oh man, sorry to hear that...

It probably doesn't matter at all, but I'm curious.... Tonowanda or BG engine?

Good luck with everything!!

Originally Posted by shayneusmc

How are your state lemon laws? Just in case more issues happen in the future and you want a brand new car or refund. I am sure GM would have a hard time fighting it w/ a blown engine on record.

Originally Posted by lawdogg149

Not really every had to do one of those. Hope this car is not my first. Good thing I got family that are lawyers.

Originally Posted by LFZ

Wow...just wow......I think all C6Z owners know where this could be heading. Damn shame....

Originally Posted by shayneusmc

How are your state lemon laws? Just in case more issues happen in the future and you want a brand new car or refund. I am sure GM would have a hard time fighting it w/ a blown engine on record.

Originally Posted by arcticblast

Here's hoping that GM will take good care of you before it ever gets to this point.

Originally Posted by rsalco

More uncalled for speculation.

Jeez.