Most of this is TSB stuff,all of it warranty.Get the reflash for the dead battery.there's a new cd for the nav.Trunk release is just dirty,take it off and clean it and it;ll be fine-search it-it's been posted on here for a long time.My 05 is an excellent car.minor roof issue (creaking),new radio-static-I think you have any early production vette which is the cause of most of this.Mine is one of the last 887 built in 05 and all this stuff was addressed by then for the most part,except for the dead battery issue.I haven't suffered from that either!!I do have a battery tender on it now for storage because it sits for months.Over a year and a half and 9243 miles of pure PERMAGRIN!!

 

No, I don't think so. The LS2 is not a completely different motor from LS1. And its not the first year of the Corvette so IMO and from my experience that statement is false.

I have 05 Z51 MN6....13,000K miles

Driven much harder than average, w/mods.

Problems: Battery (which is probably due to me leaving it in acc. mode)

Air Pressure sensor and tires losing pressure (again, not something I can be upset about as its kind of a minor issue when dealing with a 50,000 car.

I got mine in Sept. 04, one of the first our dealer had and I hadn't saw one on the street prior to my purchase,

 

So I come out last Friday to load the car up for a weekend outing and the trunk will not open, try the driver's door and nothing. Use the key to pop the hatch and sure enough no interior lights; battery is as dead as can be.

I charge the battery and get it running and as I expected no lights had been left on or anything; the 10 minute power shutoff would have turned them off if they had but the switches would still be in the on position and they would have come on & stayed on when the car was restarted.

Anyway, the car had 500 miles put on it the weekend before so I cannot imagine that it would have drained that quickly. The car gets a good run virtually every weekend.

Car has had the DBS reflash, got a new alternator about two months ago, and the battery was replaced less than 6 months ago (all warranty stuff).

Well, car is going in on Monday to have the steering rack replaced for a leak where the steering column meets the rack. It took over a month for the part to come in but I guess it works out better for me now that I can get all this stuff looked at in one visit.

Other issues being addressed on this visit include rear end chatter and service active handling message (2nd occurrence). Oh yea, I am hoping to get the body shop to look at my roof again too since there is some 2nd recall on the roof panel. I have the SMC roof already so I don't know what the recall is for this time.

 

 

05 MN6 Z51 1SX purchased 12-2004

#8 ignition paint chipping
- Driver's seat excessive wear on outside bolster (warranty)
- Driver's seat belt latch broke (warranty)

Best new car I have owned. Less problems than other new cars I have owned.

 

05 with 17k miles. Runs fine except for it is jerky when i roll to a stop and my rear view mirror shakes to the point where I can't really see out the back of it. I fixed the crazy squeek with new pads and once a week I spray air thru the front calipers to get the dust off.

Overall, this is the best performance car I ever owned. I was going to get a supercar like a ferrari or lambo but wanted to drive it daily. I think anyone wanting a 4.2 0-60 car, is insane not to get this car even with all the problems. Any other car would have a **** load of other problems along with insane servicing costs. I just dide my front and rear pads for $80 and I did it myself in 1 hour.

FYI pads on a 360 modena are $1,200 and $500 labor

 

You're supposed to push the clutch pedal.

 

Thats funny as mine is doing the same thing..high enough rpms comming to a stop, start putting clutch in and shudder!

 

Only had the delamination issue as 1000's others. Other than that, after 2 years and 14K miles I still love this car and dropping some AR headers in next week. No problems here!

I agree with other posts in this thread; seems like this car was run to death and put up wet.

 

It actually feels like that if I had a clutch. Its an automatic

 

Sorry to hear of your troubles.

I have an '05 MN6 Z51 with 6200 miles...I baby this car inside and out.

Only issues are roof delam...fixed by recall
Brake squeal...fixed by GM (new pads)
center console lock broken...doesn't bother me.

Other than that, my C6 was one of the first off the line and has been a great car.

 

bottom line what a bummer, 4500 no problems

 

I have 30,000 miles and the only problem has been a noisy rear differential which was fixed under warranty.

 

Sorry, but I think yours was built on a friday afternoon!!!

I have over 21000 kms on mine and no problems that I did not bring about at my own doing. lol

better luck in the future.

 

Its to state that 05 owners are test pilots or what ever. I have no issues like that. Guess all the hype on the 08 better wait till 09 to get the LS3 or you will be screwed. My 04 Acura TL (first TL) never saw the shop yet with 60K on the odo. Some have bad luck and others do not. Sorry but GM has a bad track record on the Vette no matter 05,06, 07 just search the forum.

 

Iam on my third radio and my BCM went bad about six months ago.Other than that its been great. 27k miles....

 

Finally all seems right with the car.

Between the clutch work that was done a few months ago and the rear diff’ service the car is much smoother.

Apparently my battery died because the radio was not going to sleep so they had to re program something.

Spent a couple hours on the road Saturday and maybe it was just a mental thing but the car felt like everything was finally dialed in.

 

10,600 miles on my '05 with not one single issue. The car was taken in for the roof foam but there was no creaking or noises.

Not sure why some cars seem to have lots a problems and other are problem free. I know a friend of mine has had his '07 Avalanche in for re-programing three times.!

 

My 05 was born on 05/05, has 12K miles and has had very minor issues (2) knock on wood.

 

Happy to report that over 3 months have now gone by and no issues have come up. Sure is nice having all the bugs worked out.