Glad your ok, I worked the Emergency Service Unit for 30 years there's good accidents & one's you can't talk about.
Wreck
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Sorry to see the pics....glad everyone is OK after that!
I have to admit when I'm driving it's in the back of my mind.
Myself and all Vette owners would love to hear the final outcome just in case we need to have our cars checked out!
I have to admit when I'm driving it's in the back of my mind.
Myself and all Vette owners would love to hear the final outcome just in case we need to have our cars checked out!
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Once we sort out what happened I will share. Nothing is noticeable broke under car. Starting to think about the active handling that has been mentioned. I want to know exactly what happened as it will have weight as to what I buy. Who am I kidding? It will be a corvette of some nature.
Melting Slicks
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Once we sort out what happened I will share. Nothing is noticeable broke under car. Starting to think about the active handling that has been mentioned. I want to know exactly what happened as it will have weight as to what I buy. Who am I kidding? It will be a corvette of some nature.
I was following a couple hundred feet behind a fairly new chev truck on Oracle Road here in Tucson and all of a sudden the truck took a hard right and went plowing though the desert mowing down cacti as it went. Luckily for that driver there was no curb and just a slight depression next to the road so nothing really bad happened but he was a hundred feet or so into the desert before he could stop it. It would have been a lot worse if he had not been in the right lane, I wouldn't have wanted to be on his right when it happened. The first thing I thought of was a active handling malfunction which can cause that to happen because the car senses that something is wrong even though there isn't anything and try's to fix a non existent out of control problem.
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Once we sort out what happened I will share. Nothing is noticeable broke under car. Starting to think about the active handling that has been mentioned. I want to know exactly what happened as it will have weight as to what I buy. Who am I kidding? It will be a corvette of some nature.
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This is a scary post. The driver and his wife are fortunate to be able to discuss this issue. If they would have died, the report would have read, the driver lost control and there were no survivors. Sad end to story and GM is clear. Fellow members will post a link and discuss drivers lack of skills and lack of good judgement. I wonder if we will ever get a true answer as to cause. If it is a computer issue, there are many cars out there with similar designs and components, are there more accidents and possibly deaths due to this problem? Consider takata (spelling) air bags and associated injuries and deaths. Lowest bidder is making these parts and the American auto industry is suffering because of it.
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Any news on to what happen? My car 08z06 did the same thing a couple nights ago. I hit a wall at 50mph on my passenger side, the guy behind me said my car just shot hard towards the wall. Wondering who I could talk to about this concern? Thougt it may have been caused from a previous accident I had repaired about a month prior. Front and rear passenger suspension is ruined just not to much body damage may have frame damage. Pm me the finding please. Glad to hear your ok. I just suffered a sore back from the side impact.
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Any news on to what happen? My car 08z06 did the same thing a couple nights ago. I hit a wall at 50mph on my passenger side, the guy behind me said my car just shot hard towards the wall. Wondering who I could talk to about this concern? Thougt it may have been caused from a previous accident I had repaired about a month prior. Front and rear passenger suspension is ruined just not to much body damage may have frame damage. Pm me the finding please. Glad to hear your ok. I just suffered a sore back from the side impact.
I am sincerely sorry to hear about the incident you experienced. This definitely is disconcerting.
Please feel free to send us a private message along with your contact information, VIN and mileage. We would be more than happy to discuss this further.
Kindly,
Kaylee D.
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Happened to me
Similar happened to me I was driving down the highway in a light rain and my 11 Grand Sport snapped 90 degrees to the right, in the process of trying to correct the spin and avoid all the cars I managed to hit the center divide and enough to bend the front and rear clips. I think a sensor failed and the car thought it was in a spin and tried to correct and then shut off the computer as there were no driver aids not even anti-locks as I was spinning. On Star did not realize I was in an accident and no airbags deployed. Every one wants to blame hydroplaning, but it came around way to quick.
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Similar happened to me I was driving down the highway in a light rain and my 11 Grand Sport snapped 90 degrees to the right, in the process of trying to correct the spin and avoid all the cars I managed to hit the center divide and enough to bend the front and rear clips. I think a sensor failed and the car thought it was in a spin and tried to correct and then shut off the computer as there were no driver aids not even anti-locks as I was spinning. On Star did not realize I was in an accident and no airbags deployed. Every one wants to blame hydroplaning, but it came around way to quick.
As to hydroplaning, that wouldn't cause the failure of onstar or the airbags.
Melting Slicks
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This has been reported a few times on the forum and there was a recall on some of the C6's with telescopic steering wheel related to active handling. A connector in the steering column could cause the computer to think the car is out of control and it will try to correct when actually nothing was wrong and the driver could lose control.
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Wouldn't a "Class or Group" reply from Chevy Customer service be in order here, this is scary to hear!!!!!!!!!
Dony hide it in a pm message, lets talk about this out in the open, PLEASE
NSF
Dony hide it in a pm message, lets talk about this out in the open, PLEASE
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This Chevy Customer Service is not really Chevy. They are a contracted company that has no authority with Chevy. I have dealt with them on my Chevy cruise. They advised me to "make an appointment with a local Chevy dealer to have the issue resolved". The issue was that I had been to the dealer 5 times and they did nothing to correct a non-existant issue that turned into a recall a year later.
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"In honor of jpee"
This Chevy Customer Service is not really Chevy. They are a contracted company that has no authority with Chevy. I have dealt with them on my Chevy cruise. They advised me to "make an appointment with a local Chevy dealer to have the issue resolved". The issue was that I had been to the dealer 5 times and they did nothing to correct a non-existant issue that turned into a recall a year later.
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This is a scary post. The driver and his wife are fortunate to be able to discuss this issue. If they would have died, the report would have read, the driver lost control and there were no survivors. Sad end to story and GM is clear. Fellow members will post a link and discuss drivers lack of skills and lack of good judgement. I wonder if we will ever get a true answer as to cause. If it is a computer issue, there are many cars out there with similar designs and components, are there more accidents and possibly deaths due to this problem? Consider takata (spelling) air bags and associated injuries and deaths. Lowest bidder is making these parts and the American auto industry is suffering because of it.
Unless I'm mistake, all new cars now have active handling and traction control (probably goes by a different name, depending on the car company) ... government mandated.
All car owners really need to know if the system is in danger of critical failure.
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