99 C5 Running Issues
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99 C5 Running Issues
Needless to say, I am new to the forum and recently bought my first Vette, C5 1999 AT. I am owned a number of performance cars in the past I.e. 55-57 belairs, 70 camaro, and here in Japan several GTR's. And I must say corvettes are unique. All cars have their glitches and I am learning painfully those associated with this one
car has 123k miles here in Japan and due to speed limit average of 50 mph it hasn't been driven hard. Car came with no wheels, battery, or FOB, but 2 ignition keys. Fired up and drove ok for about 4 hours. Later symptoms included shutting off while driving only a short distance. Remove the ignition key rub it a tad, and it would restart? Later it started to heat up a bit, shut off and wouldn't restart as if though the starter, battery or alternator had died. Got it into a garage with some old American cars out front in quest of maybe the mech could find out what's wrong here. In short I felt the issues may have been centered around the security system or computers lack of communication, errors somewhere. He took the traditional route without a diagnostic machine the process of elimination. Let's replace the battery, next the starter, and next the alternator, and let's check the fuses relays. Well all the suggested parts have been ordered and due in in a few days. Question is the car not having a FOB key important or not? Also the previous owner instead of replacing the BCM from You tube he installed a on/off switch to by pass some issues, what not exactly known. He said when he had it ran find, except occasionally he had to remove the key wipe off a bit and every was good. I have since found a certified mech who has substantial experience, but will be able to get the car to him until the current mech gets things back together. In the event after replacing the parts mentioned there are still running issues, any suggestions what this all sounds like?
car has 123k miles here in Japan and due to speed limit average of 50 mph it hasn't been driven hard. Car came with no wheels, battery, or FOB, but 2 ignition keys. Fired up and drove ok for about 4 hours. Later symptoms included shutting off while driving only a short distance. Remove the ignition key rub it a tad, and it would restart? Later it started to heat up a bit, shut off and wouldn't restart as if though the starter, battery or alternator had died. Got it into a garage with some old American cars out front in quest of maybe the mech could find out what's wrong here. In short I felt the issues may have been centered around the security system or computers lack of communication, errors somewhere. He took the traditional route without a diagnostic machine the process of elimination. Let's replace the battery, next the starter, and next the alternator, and let's check the fuses relays. Well all the suggested parts have been ordered and due in in a few days. Question is the car not having a FOB key important or not? Also the previous owner instead of replacing the BCM from You tube he installed a on/off switch to by pass some issues, what not exactly known. He said when he had it ran find, except occasionally he had to remove the key wipe off a bit and every was good. I have since found a certified mech who has substantial experience, but will be able to get the car to him until the current mech gets things back together. In the event after replacing the parts mentioned there are still running issues, any suggestions what this all sounds like?
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I would NOT let him replace your alternator there are many threads here of ppl doing that and getting the wrong one!!! You don't need a fob try cleaning the key. Pull the codes from the Driver Information Center (DIC)
