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Old Aug 8, 2005 | 02:17 AM
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I recently had an alignment service done on my vette. At least once or twice during driving I would see Active Handling came on (when I hit the brake or ran over a small bump and the road was always dry). I've not seen Active Handling lite up that often before... Have you guys seen this often? Thanks,
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You never know, just one of your tires could have been on some sand or something.
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Also check your codes ... I had a sensor in the steering column become B/O ... same symptoms.
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hitting simple bumps or potholes under acceleration, braking, and cornering will cause them to turn on, but normally I can easily tell when I'm about to see the DIC light up.
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Originally Posted by MyVetteDream
Also check your codes ... I had a sensor in the steering column become B/O ... same symptoms.

I have checked the codes, don't see any interesting codes. All of them are H (-History), none is active. Today I was driving on flat surface, but the Active Handling was on for more than 10 times. I don't know if anything is wrong with the car..

Do you guys have any ideas?

Thanks,
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Had the same thing happen. Added a little brake fluid and it stopped.
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Originally Posted by 02Silver
I have checked the codes, don't see any interesting codes. All of them are H (-History), none is active. Today I was driving on flat surface, but the Active Handling was on for more than 10 times. I don't know if anything is wrong with the car..

Do you guys have any ideas?

Thanks,
I took my car in at least twice and there were no codes ...
They ended up checking the sensor and found it to be faulty, changed it and fixed the problem
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Originally Posted by YBNORML
Had the same thing happen. Added a little brake fluid and it stopped.
Thanks! I will try out this before take it to the shop if it still doesn't go away..

Originally Posted by MyVetteDream
I took my car in at least twice and there were no codes ...
They ended up checking the sensor and found it to be faulty, changed it and fixed the problem
Gotcha.. Dave. Thanks. Did you bring yours to trusted Corvette shop or dealers (= stealers ) ? Do you know if extend warr. will cover this? Thanks,
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