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Old Jul 2, 2012 | 02:03 PM
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hello guy's i'm new to corvettes i just bought my first vette Saturday i love it but unfortunatly i have problems already its a 1997 c5 corvette and yesterday i took it out for a ride when i started it up i herd noise from cluster and none of the gauges work like they fliped back and on the screen it reads aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa all the way across so i turned of car and restarted it and it was fine but every now and then when i start it does that and also seems like the speedometer is off the car does have the z06 rims am i doing something wrong on start up can someone help the car runs fine only has 52k miles
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no one has had this problem
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no one has had this problem
it might have escaped you, but you posted smack dab in the middle of everyone's work day............a little patience.....
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Old Jul 3, 2012 | 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by lucky131969
it might have escaped you, but you posted smack dab in the middle of everyone's work day............a little patience.....
sorry didn't realize that but i did unconnect the battery post and reconnect and everything seems to be working fine although i hadn't took it on a trip yet just started in the garage.
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Old Jul 3, 2012 | 02:24 PM
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thanks! i just bought the car but it looks like the owner before me just bought the battery and everything checked out on my battery tester and voltage is good i hope that was it but i'll take it out for the 4th and see what happens also hearing a churping only when a/c is on cab i just put some belt dresser on it?
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