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Old Aug 5, 2023 | 08:37 PM
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Thanks Rob (C5 Diag) for giving my C6 a scan check-up today. Rob really knows his stuff and has all of the latest diagnostic tools.


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It's nice to have a diagnostics guy around instead of guessing and changing parts.That gets expensive in very short order.
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agreed! definitely one of the heroes on this site....

thanks c5d!

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Originally Posted by Mike98SilVert

Thanks Rob (C5 Diag) for giving my C6 a scan check-up today. Rob really knows his stuff and has all of the latest diagnostic tools.
That's a fact !
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Old Aug 6, 2023 | 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike98SilVert
Thanks Rob (C5 Diag) for giving my C6 a scan check-up today. Rob really knows his stuff and has all of the latest diagnostic tools.

Mike, my pleasure !!…so your battery and charging system are fine…you have the correct OE lead acid battery and not an AGM (01-03 Z06 OE was AGM) which can cause charging system issues because the charging strategies are different on those 2 types of batteries as far as the ECM is concerned…we had a full electrical load on the car and your battery was charging at a steady 13.8 volts…hardly any voltage drop on the positive and negative battery connections…if you did see your voltmeter drop momentarily to 12.5 volts that voltage doesn’t come from the battery directly but from the Ignition 1 voltage circuit…the cars voltmeter will always read about .3 to .4 volts lower than the battery…if you want to swing by next weekend I can swap out your battery cable terminals with those better ones !!

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Old Aug 6, 2023 | 10:28 AM
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My hat's off to him as well!
Infinitely greater patience explaining diagnostic stuff here on the forum than I have....
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…if you want to swing by next weekend I can swap out your battery cable terminals with those better ones !!
Thanks Rob, see you Saturday AM. Thanks for the gold-plated terminals.
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Rob is the man! He's helped me work through quite a few issues now!
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