I'm baaacccccck
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Instructor
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From: Franklin kentucky
I'm baaacccccck
After two C4s and two C5s, I have seen the error of my ways and traded for a 1982 Collectors Edition today.
Although C4s and C5s are great cars, I can't stand all the electrical
problems these cars have. They can leave you stranded with no warning what so ever.
There has been a Corvette in my driveway ever since 1968 so I am going back to my roots and cars that I understand.
Speedracer2
Although C4s and C5s are great cars, I can't stand all the electrical
problems these cars have. They can leave you stranded with no warning what so ever.
There has been a Corvette in my driveway ever since 1968 so I am going back to my roots and cars that I understand.
Speedracer2
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From: The Motor City
After two C4s and two C5s, I have seen the error of my ways and traded for a 1982 Collectors Edition today. Although C4s and C5s are great cars, I can't stand all the electrical problems these cars have. They can leave you stranded with no warning what so ever. There has been a Corvette in my driveway ever since 1968 so I am going back to my roots and cars that I understand. Speedracer2
Speedracer2Enjoy the technology/design of the latest model C3 with the lines on a Corvette as God intended.
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From: Ontario
After two C4s and two C5s, I have seen the error of my ways and traded for a 1982 Collectors Edition today.
Although C4s and C5s are great cars, I can't stand all the electrical
problems these cars have. They can leave you stranded with no warning what so ever.
There has been a Corvette in my driveway ever since 1968 so I am going back to my roots and cars that I understand.
Speedracer2
Although C4s and C5s are great cars, I can't stand all the electrical
problems these cars have. They can leave you stranded with no warning what so ever.
There has been a Corvette in my driveway ever since 1968 so I am going back to my roots and cars that I understand.
Speedracer2
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From: Port Huron MI
St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15
Welcome back brother! I did the same thing years ago. Fortunately my C4's were new so I didn't have the experience with the problems. Nowdays when there is a problem with the computerized cars, all you can do is take them into a dealer and have them plug em in to see what is going wrong. Like you said, the good thing about these cars is that when there is a problem, you can just sit and think about what went wrong and diagnose it yourself "along with the help of this finetastic forum folks." 
Terry
Terry
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From: Franklin kentucky
need I go on?
Speedracer2
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From: Ontario
Me? I adjust the dwell each spring. And yes, I have a dwell tachometer. Might require a bit of filing of the points.
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After two C4s and two C5s, I have seen the error of my ways and traded for a 1982 Collectors Edition today.
Although C4s and C5s are great cars, I can't stand all the electrical
problems these cars have. They can leave you stranded with no warning what so ever.
There has been a Corvette in my driveway ever since 1968 so I am going back to my roots and cars that I understand.
Speedracer2
Although C4s and C5s are great cars, I can't stand all the electrical
problems these cars have. They can leave you stranded with no warning what so ever.
There has been a Corvette in my driveway ever since 1968 so I am going back to my roots and cars that I understand.
Speedracer2
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From: The Motor City
I'm not sure that I would rally around the financial savings of fully doing right by a C3 - they are like any expensive toy, especially at the start when you are working out the usual bugs and making it your own. (Do you hear that speedRacer2, even though you look like you have a good one there?) But let's cut straight to it - the "$-to-cool factor" is incomparable and makes the lighter wallet a ton more tolerable, more on our own terms vs. a C4-6, and borderline enjoyable. We're a sick lot.
Last edited by Lakeside49; Dec 24, 2014 at 12:14 PM.