I posted last week about my car having to be towed out of my garage for not starting. The car arrives at the dealership (in 1 piece), next day I receive a phone call stating that the problem was in the fuse box. Dealer replaced the box with a new one. Next day I pick my car up, drive it home and put it back in the garage. Picked the car up on last Friday.

Sunday I decided to take a nice ride and my "Service Active Handling" light came on after hitting a small bump in the road. I'm like WTF now!@#! The car began to shift very hard as if I installed a shift kit in the car. At this point my blood is boiling. After turning the engine off and back on, the active handling system decided to play nice and not show itself again and shifting was once again smooth. I drove the car maybe 10-15 miles.

I have not driven the car all week since I've been busy with work. Today ( Thursday) I took the car out so I could go to the convenience store. As soon as I crank the engine I notice the engine light was on. I back out of the garage, hit the onstar button to get someone to diagnose the problem. I was told by the onstar operator "this code is drivetrain system/throttle system - critical malfunction. Highly recommend not driving the car and tow to dealership.

Now, here's why I'm so damned pissed!!! My car is barely driven!!!! I'm having this many problems with 3k miles? What gives? I do understand that their is a ton of electronics in the car but damn my road bike (bicycle) has just about 4k miles on it and its outdoing my new vette!

After spending 54k I would expect something a little bit better than this. I know, first year blah blah but I'm to the point if this car continues to go in the shop it's going up for sale. My attitude would be a lot different if I ragged my automobiles but my auto's are well taken care of, this is just rediculous. Had plans to go to a car show tomorrow night and hit the beach this weekend in FL, kiss those plans goodbye. The car will have to go back into the shop tomorrow. Makes trip #4 to the shop since Jan w/ 3k miles.

I had to vent

 

Sorry to hear about that. Hmmm... if you had a scan tool, you could get the exact code from the computer, and then shut off the check engine light. You could then drive the car and see if the light comes back on again. Who knows... due to the "bugginess" of the electronics, maybe the light would not come back on and the car would be fine. Or... perhaps an easier solution is to just unhook the battery for a few minutes, then reconnect... then drive the car and see what happens. With all the stories I've been hearing, seems that a lot of these goofy electronic problems are intermittant... sometimes they happen, sometimes they don't... sometimes they're serious, sometimes they're not. Etc. I am already preparing myself for this type of annoyance. I already have a scan tool ready to go. May even consider adding a shunt to the battery so I can easily disconnect and reconnect the battery easily any time when the electronics go totally haywire. I'd rather do this first before having the car towed to the dealer and wasting possibly days of time potentially for nothing. The less time at the dealer, the better. Best of luck. Hope it works out.

 

Don't panic yet. This all is a major pain, but it sounds like something got screwed up when they disconnected power to install the new fuse box. Give them a chance to diagnose the fault and correct it. It may turn out to be a very minor problem that's causing all this grief.

Hope you have a problem free car back very soon.

 

It may be fine after a few miles. I had the dead battery issue last week and after I charged the battery and got it running, when I drove down the road the NAV showed me going BACKWARDS

At every intersection that I stopped at, the NAV would update my position to the current position, but as soon as I took off, if I was heading north on a road, the display would show me moving south. For every mile I went north on the road, the screen would move south one mile from my starting point.

After about an hour of this, it finally started working correctly. I think when the battery is disconnected it does a lot of strange things to the car for a short time.

 

Get a new garage, or paint the floor. It sounds like your existing one is sucking the life outta your C6
Sorry man, I know you're distressed, just trying to make you smile

 

Go to the Sign Shop in your towm. Have them make a static sign that you can put on your door that says


"stop me and ask me how this car is a LEMON"


booo GM

 

one bad apple does not a bad tree make. i agree with all the above posters in that messing with the electrical system in ANY car can create problems if not done correctly. this is not a GM specific issue. nor is it a vette specific issue. it is a THIS GUY'S VETTE specific issue. and it sucks. sorry man, hang in there and make sure they are aware of your frustration. threaten to report thier service center to the better business bureau if you have to, but make it clear to them that you will not stand for another half assed repair. good luck man!

 

...and don't forget to also check your state's Lemon Law provisions just in case.