This past Friday I bought my first Corvette. She's a 2001 coupe, six speed manual transmission with 20,000 miles...and just beautiful as the original owner took great care of the car.

I've noticed that the feature that makes you shift from first gear to fourth was never disconnected...and so I have been very careful in first gear so I can go to second, etc. How do I disconnect that feature?

As a guy in his twenties, I always wanted a Vette. But as time passed by I guess I bought in to the rationale that it was not practical. Fast forward to the present where I saw online the car I ended up buying. I could not believe I was getting into a Corvette at an affordable price for my pocket book! Driving is so much more fun now...sort of like when I first learned to drive. I love the car! I look forward to learning a lot at the Corvette Forum that I can apply to keeping my car in good running order!

 

Do some searching for skip shift eliminator. I have an auto. Enjoy your Vette.

 

Thank you!!!!

Barry

 

Thanks...will check it out!

 

If i can figure out how to add pics, I will do this week...

 

I'm an older guy in his late 60's and just got my first one too a few months ago, 2003. You came to the right place to learn, there isn't a thing you can think of that someone on here hasn't already had the same problem with and everything you need to know to fix it.
I learn something on here everyday. A year ago I couldn't even spell Korvet Owner, now I are one too.

 

I just ordered that part the other day for mine too, it looks like it is the only one that deals with the light, so it says anyway. I'll know pretty soon.

 

I have been impressed with the response from Forum members who have reached out to me with information. I'll turn 70 in a few months and feel like a kid again in that beautiful car! Good hearing from you!

 

I have been impressed with the response from Forum members who have reached out to me with information. I'll turn 70 in a few months and feel like a kid again in that beautiful car! Good hearing from you!

 

When you buy skip shift GAGS from compliance parts, buy the LMC5 also. Just did both myself. I did the brown wire mod on the LMC5. Both worked perfect. Thanks to everyone on this site!! Dennis

 

I'd go get the car tuned and detailed right away. Tuner can remove CAGS. Wish I hadn't waited so long to tune my truck (year and a half). I tuned my car after a month.

 

Yeah, I'm right where you are, I'm still discovering things on it and I got it last June. I've been tinkering with it adding little trim accents here and there, cold air intake, shifter, cameras and little things like that.
I used to like to add performance parts to the engines in the old days and would still like to in a way but now you need to get them retuned if you do much to it at all and it's just too much trouble for what I'd get out of it for the way I usualy drive it any way. Honestly I could probably loose 100 hp. and never know it was gone.
We have a lot of fun on here especialy when us older guys and the younger guys get teasing eachother aboout our tastes and such.
These are deffinately amazing cars to me and I still can't get over the gas mileage these 13 and older year old cars get. Mines really not more than 2-3 mpg. difference from my 2014 4 cyl. Hyundai Sonata even just putting around the area here. I can't imagine what the newer ones must be like.
Yes I'm one of the old Fart guys on here getting something he always wanted since he was a kid and have fond memories of the older ones around back then.
I'm gonna admit I'm one of the what I call tastefully applied here and there {Bling} guys that adds a little shiny thing here or there because the 50's and 60's cars had little things like that here and there but that is truly not the style today for the majority which we are now not part of. But I just like the kind of things the designer Harley Earl did on the Vettes and other GM cars back then and wondered if he was still around what trim here and there and the nice distinguishing Vette emblems would be on these cars now to make them more elegant but not Gawdy.


There are lots of aftermarket and liscensed GM peices {emblems and such}that fit right where there is already an embossed or raised surface on the car just waiting for something to set it off and still look factory that they gave us the option for if we want it or just keep it plain which is the most desired taste now for the majority and younger types and that's fine too.

Look at Harley Davidsons for example, there is something for every taste and most of it looks like it belongs there from the factory and not some wierd stuff from something like JC Whitney ect. used to try to pawn.

But have you seen some of that other **** yet for these cars, Flame tail light Louvers and such?
To me the color of the car has a lot to do with what is added here or there in that respect.
Now watch the young guys and the serious performance car guys glomm onto this post and tease me for admitting I like some of these things. It's all in fun though and I don't mind it, hell my own kids tease me about this stuff so they might as well too. But it's all in fun and we all Love these Vettes so we all have the basic taste anyhow and it helps me keep connected with the younger pups here at the POUND since I'm now retired too and don't get to interact with them like I used to. Yes the pups were a pain in the *** at work sometimes but I do really miss them now

 

One thing has me puzzled. The tires on the right side have the tires' build date on the sidewall, but the same make tires on the left side do not show the build date. Is that because these are considered matching tires or what?

 

that very well may be the case.....

 

Welcome to the C5 Family. Lots of luck and great times with your "New" acquisition. One thing you may want to do is read up on the many do's and don't, problems, etc, etc of the C5 that may or may not pertain to your year.. This thread is a must read for first time C5 owners.

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...must-read.html

 

skip shift eliminator made a world of difference....thanks for naming and suggesting what I needed!!!!

 

Glad to hear it works, I think I ordered mine right before you did and mine is suposed to be here tomorrow according to the tracking.
Yet another toy to play with

 

What surprised me is it came from West Coast Corvette way out in California...and I just paid for what I thought was regular shipping, but it appears to have arrived 2 days...maybe three at the most...from the day I ordered it!