Electrical problems/Amber ignition button
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3rd Gear
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Electrical problems/Amber ignition button
I purchased a 2005 C6. From 300 miles to 7,000 miles no major problems. Shortly after 700o miles all hell broke loose. While driving normally error messages started coming up. They started with Active Handling and Traction control. Within 1 mile I had codes from inoperable shocks to low fuel. Check engine light came on as well as the service engine soon message. With the exception of the tach and speedometer all other gauges pegged all the way to the left. During this whole process the ignition button kept flipping back forth from green to amber.
I have have it in for service twice and they can not duplicate the problem. Each time the service tech tell me the car had 36 and 44 error messages but that determining where the problem started has been impossible. Neither the tech or the Corvette help tech has ever heard of an amber ignition button. According to them there is no printed material that even references the amber switch.
Before someone suggest it, there is no warranty because I bought the car with a branded title (300 miles and someone ran into the rear of a Box Van - no engine damage but had to replace both front fenders)
Please HELP if you have any information. Thanks
I have have it in for service twice and they can not duplicate the problem. Each time the service tech tell me the car had 36 and 44 error messages but that determining where the problem started has been impossible. Neither the tech or the Corvette help tech has ever heard of an amber ignition button. According to them there is no printed material that even references the amber switch.
Before someone suggest it, there is no warranty because I bought the car with a branded title (300 miles and someone ran into the rear of a Box Van - no engine damage but had to replace both front fenders)
Please HELP if you have any information. Thanks
Team Owner
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From: San Clemente CA
Sounds like a bad ground. You can check the battery and follow the ground to the grounding point and make sure it's a good connection. When the car was worked on they probably left something loose. You will need to find out what it is. Make sure you have a good battery also. Good luck.
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3rd Gear
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Electical problems/amber ignition loght
Thanks for the advice. We ahd already checked 7 seperate grounds with no problems. Still looking for an answer. I sure hate to think about being somewhere in the country and the problem comes back. I don't know if I could even attempt to drive it home. I have checked with two other dealerships and no one has ever heard of the ignition button showing green when the car is running, much less flipping from green to amber as the error messages keep pileing up.
Thanks again.
Sandy
Thanks again.
Sandy
Racer
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From: odessa TX
elect. problem
well I wish you were the first.
but you're not.
where are you located.
so cal?
email udriveslow@yahoo.com
ill give you a list of possible corrections.
ernest
but you're not.
where are you located.
so cal?
email udriveslow@yahoo.com
ill give you a list of possible corrections.
ernest
Safety Car
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From: Pacific Northwest
During early production runs, the many ignition buttons were "sticking" on. Perhaps yours is intermittantly sticking, causing the errors codes.
Good luck in figuring this out/getting it fixed.
Good luck in figuring this out/getting it fixed.
Racer
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From: odessa TX
we have had many concerns with water intrusion in connectors.
ecm and tcm are in pass front fender.
water from roads can easly get in.
have dealer check ecm connectors and the two connectors
behind battery for water.
clean and add dielectric grease to all connectors.
also if you are having fuel related problems(level or codes)
the connectors to the fuel pump control mod. (your dealer will know location.)
clean and add dielectric grease....
there has also been many programming updates.....
hope thats some help
any other questions email
udriveslow@yahoo.com
to bad your not in so. cal......82degrees and light breeze..
ecm and tcm are in pass front fender.
water from roads can easly get in.
have dealer check ecm connectors and the two connectors
behind battery for water.
clean and add dielectric grease to all connectors.
also if you are having fuel related problems(level or codes)
the connectors to the fuel pump control mod. (your dealer will know location.)
clean and add dielectric grease....
there has also been many programming updates.....
hope thats some help
any other questions email
udriveslow@yahoo.com
to bad your not in so. cal......82degrees and light breeze..
Safety Car
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From: Miami FL
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Udriveslow:
Thanx for the good information. I am considering a CoW mail order tune, and will reinstall with silicone dielectric grease on all the terminations.
Thanx !!
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Thanx for the good information. I am considering a CoW mail order tune, and will reinstall with silicone dielectric grease on all the terminations.
Thanx !!
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Burning Brakes
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From: McFarland WI
Sounds like a problem I had once with my C5. Had a very low battery charge due to long term storage. I charged the battery just enough to get it started and then took off for a drive, got lots of DIC messages, the gauges went beserk, etc, etc. Once the battery fully charged with driving and I shut it down and then restarted, everything was fine. Maybe your battery had gotten low for some reason, (DBS?) not low enough to prevent starting, just low enough to create what happened. If it ever happens again, check the batt voltage asap, see if that's it.
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Drifting
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From: Ft. Liquordale Florida
Originally Posted by jwbert
Sounds like a problem I had once with my C5. Had a very low battery charge due to long term storage. I charged the battery just enough to get it started and then took off for a drive, got lots of DIC messages, the gauges went beserk, etc, etc. Once the battery fully charged with driving and I shut it down and then restarted, everything was fine. Maybe your battery had gotten low for some reason, (DBS?) not low enough to prevent starting, just low enough to create what happened. If it ever happens again, check the batt voltage asap, see if that's it.
Reminds me of when my battery went dead on me - same symptoms. Sounds like an insufficient supply voltage, system-wide - though when driving? Is there a main fusible link or breaker/relay that could be flaking? Then again - when the battery gets that low, the car won't start, and the car should run without the battery connected if the charging system is working OK (that's how AAA verified the dead battery diagnosis after it tok 2 tractor-trailor batteries to get me started - we disconnected the battery after we got the car started).
Rick
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3rd Gear
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Thanks again to everyone. Not the battery cause it is brand new and test perfectly. I will get the connections resealed but it has been checked once and on each occcasion when the problem showed up we had been dry(no rain) for over a week.
SandyJ
SandyJ