[Z06] 2001 Z colum lock
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From: Pittsburgh
2001 Z colum lock
Hi need some help here! bought my z in late july last year couple months later went to leave my friends house went to pull out car shut off i looked down and got the service colum lock wait ten seconds thing. my steering wheel was locked. Got my car towed to chevy dealer it was sitting outside for 5 days and the still didnt touch it or even give me a time frame. So labor day i went down there to clean all the bird poop off it started the car and it unlocked! so i stole my car back and called them the next day to tell them im taking my buisness somewhere else. A week later a guy at work says he knows a corvette mechanic that works at watson he gave me his number and he installed the smaller locking plate cost me 250 not bad if it never happened again but i went to get in my car saturday and it came up on the dash AGAIN!!!!!!! I can turn the wheel but the car shuts off at 2 MPH what should i do what is causing this now i called the mechanic and he doesnt think its the colum lock just want some input Please help me
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Well yeasteday i dropped the panel in my passenger footwell and i see a little black box about 1 1/2 inch square that looks like its spliced in with electrical tape doesnt have a sticker on it or anything just a number i googled that nothing came up oh and i can hear the colum lock every time i turn the key off and on .......so do you think it could be something else? the guy that did it last time said he would look at it but i really dont want to have it flat bedded back to his house
Last edited by PHFootballlb52; Jun 2, 2011 at 07:13 AM. Reason: remembered something else
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Well its about the same size but no sticker and the wires are just black with a white stripe heres another question could i put i bipass in with the computer still thinking the colum is locked or do i need to get the code cleared by the gm dealer first
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http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-g...ngths-etc.html
Scroll down until you find the section on column lock. There are also some links with more info. There is TONS of info on this subject. Use the search function in the red tool bar above. I think the column lock has to be in the retracted (unlocked) position for the CLB to work. Good luck.
Scroll down until you find the section on column lock. There are also some links with more info. There is TONS of info on this subject. Use the search function in the red tool bar above. I think the column lock has to be in the retracted (unlocked) position for the CLB to work. Good luck.
Last edited by tremor1; Jun 2, 2011 at 10:26 PM.
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