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Old Jun 16, 2020 | 01:24 PM
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Greetings,
I am looking at buying a 2004 but I need some help with codes. I am a long time owner of a C3 so I am experienced to a degree on Corvettes but not anything with these codes. I understand the process on retrieving them but what are the codes that would make me walk away from the car because of cost of repair or any other reason. There seems to be a variety of different codes but I am only interested in those that would be the "kiss of death" for the purchase. Thanks ahead for your responses
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For a 2004 I don't think there are any codes that would be a reason to not buy.
Depending on your use, daily driver vs garage queen, vehicle condition and maintenance would drive the buy/not buy decision.
It also depends on your desire to work on the car.

Over the last couple of years a friend of mine and I have done at least 3 resurrections of neglected C5's for people.

Gary
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Thank you Gary, good to hear.
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I'd say a P0601, P0604, P0606 and P1683 are PCM DTC's and for most it's a PCM replacement !!
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