I bought my first Corvette!
Burning Brakes
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@Sojourner congratulations for your purchase, and welcome to the forum. there are 2 philosophies in regards to repairing car in this forum at least.
1st - if no issue, don’t touch. 👍🏼
2nd - replace everything you can by preventive maintenance, and while you are at it, add a lot of goodies.🥳
my advice, since I was in the same situation as you 3 years ago, with a car with 110kmiles, salvaged title, is to drive, listen, observe and ENJOY. Don’t rush yourself to repairing things. Read a lot of stickies in this forums and in the others. Find a reputable and trustworthy shop which can do repair on this car, avoid dealership as far as I understood for the US market. The corvette and LS engine is a well known platform and simple to work with until you face very specific computer issues. Even that, the car will give you hints of what is happening by giving you readable codes on the DIC.
don’t check your plug wires and plugs with this mileage except if your have misfire, the simple fact to dismount the wire will force you to replace them all, they are probably tight and the plastic material is hardened. At least I could read this from several poster. The plugs are supposed to be changed at 100kmiles.
the tires probably need to be replaced by more recent ones, except if the previous owner changed them, which I doubt if he just drove it 2000miles.
all the best! Have fun, drive carefully to start with, don’t let the machine bites you and check it little by little.
TCFS
1st - if no issue, don’t touch. 👍🏼
2nd - replace everything you can by preventive maintenance, and while you are at it, add a lot of goodies.🥳
my advice, since I was in the same situation as you 3 years ago, with a car with 110kmiles, salvaged title, is to drive, listen, observe and ENJOY. Don’t rush yourself to repairing things. Read a lot of stickies in this forums and in the others. Find a reputable and trustworthy shop which can do repair on this car, avoid dealership as far as I understood for the US market. The corvette and LS engine is a well known platform and simple to work with until you face very specific computer issues. Even that, the car will give you hints of what is happening by giving you readable codes on the DIC.
don’t check your plug wires and plugs with this mileage except if your have misfire, the simple fact to dismount the wire will force you to replace them all, they are probably tight and the plastic material is hardened. At least I could read this from several poster. The plugs are supposed to be changed at 100kmiles.
the tires probably need to be replaced by more recent ones, except if the previous owner changed them, which I doubt if he just drove it 2000miles.
all the best! Have fun, drive carefully to start with, don’t let the machine bites you and check it little by little.
TCFS
