my car is also a 6MT
Press Brake To Start Engine
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Le Mans Master
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Press Brake To Start Engine
I had an interesting experience the other morning: my first attempt to start my C6 caused the message "PRESS BRAKE TO START ENGINE" to appear on the DIC - for the first time ever (60K miles so far).
The reason it's interesting is my car has a manual transmission, and that message supposedly appears only on automatics.
Well, I can report that the message is still there in the firmware. There must be some bit of state that's set to keep it from happening on manuals, and on mine it was momentarily absent.
For what it's worth, I had, for the first time in years, BOTH fobs #1 and #2 with me. Anyone else seen this glitch?
The reason it's interesting is my car has a manual transmission, and that message supposedly appears only on automatics.
Well, I can report that the message is still there in the firmware. There must be some bit of state that's set to keep it from happening on manuals, and on mine it was momentarily absent.
For what it's worth, I had, for the first time in years, BOTH fobs #1 and #2 with me. Anyone else seen this glitch?
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St. Jude Donor '07
It might be battery related. I got a "shocks inoperative" message before which is a F55 related message. I have a base C6. Anyway after getting this message, in a couple days battery went dead. Happened to me twice and both times battery went dead a few days later.
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10
I had an interesting experience the other morning: my first attempt to start my C6 caused the message "PRESS BRAKE TO START ENGINE" to appear on the DIC - for the first time ever (60K miles so far).
The reason it's interesting is my car has a manual transmission, and that message supposedly appears only on automatics.
Well, I can report that the message is still there in the firmware. There must be some bit of state that's set to keep it from happening on manuals, and on mine it was momentarily absent.
For what it's worth, I had, for the first time in years, BOTH fobs #1 and #2 with me. Anyone else seen this glitch?
The reason it's interesting is my car has a manual transmission, and that message supposedly appears only on automatics.
Well, I can report that the message is still there in the firmware. There must be some bit of state that's set to keep it from happening on manuals, and on mine it was momentarily absent.
For what it's worth, I had, for the first time in years, BOTH fobs #1 and #2 with me. Anyone else seen this glitch?
Safety Car
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12
This is interesting. It seems to infer that all of the messages are in all of the computers but they are only displayed given certain triggers within the programming. Apparently there was some sort of crossover glitch that displayed a message not relevant to the car model.
