hmm the little "I agree" Icon looks kinda dumb when you are the first post on a new page.

 

Probably related to this. http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c7-g...-939-c7-s.html

BTW - a little over six months on my wife's C7, and the only problem we have had is with the console screen blanking out once. Pulling over, shutting it down, and restarting fixed it, and the problem has not returned. No regrets buy a first year vehicle.

 

Steve R. If you were one of those affected, you would care. My dealer didn't mind the call (a small dealership), obviously, you don't have a very good relationship with yours.

Andy

 

Really? Orange peel? When are we going to get past this.....if Orange Peel is the only negative (aside from tail lights and in my opinion look fine) people can keep coming up with, then GM did a pretty damn good job on the NEXT Generation of Corvette (sorry that means no more round tail lights also). I had a C6 guess what it had orange peel. I had 2 C5's guess what they both had orange peel!!!! If it bothers you that bad for all that you are getting in a Corvette for an OUTSTANDING PRICE then go buy something else and go to their forum and cry about how crappy they are or how expensive they are and compare it's price to the price of the Corvette.

If orange peel bothers you that much and you actually own a Corvette then go get somebody to professionally wet sand it and then you will have 1 less thing in life to CRY ABOUT!!!! I did that with my 2008 C6 and guess what practically NO orange peel----PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

Unfortunately some people get too caught up in a MINOR ISSUE and spend all their time looking to cry about it instead of spending HALF THE EFFORT and solving the problem!!!!!

Sorry to rant, but I am sick and tired of hearing people cry about orange peel which isn't noticeable unless you just wanna get up on the car and LOOK FOR IT to have something to complain about!

NOW paint drips and bubbles completely different story for early C7's and that would be unacceptable and I believe GM took care of those issues for customers!

 

drivecorvette is a troll, don't bother getting upset....

 

Yeah I figured he/she was, but the orange peel has been beat to death on here by non-trolls as well. I think all too often we get caught up in the complaining and not doing something about it.

 

I would agree if I put it there.
Not the real focus at any rate

 

The day after my dealer called me to tell me that the GM rep told him (no rumor with a direct phone call) my C7 was on safety hold due to suspension weld issues AND car would not be expected to ship until after the 4th of July, my car was loaded and delivered to dealer 24 hours later. Why GM would use the term "suspension weld" would appear like some problem surfaced.
Out of country this week but driving to dealer for delivery 7/7.
Torch red should be on I - 75 heading north that afternoon.

 

Did you miss the post about a recall for almost 2000 cars with possible bad welds on a shock absorber mount (part of the suspension)? Your car was inspected, and either passed, or had a good shock installed, and continued on its journey. No big mystery.

 

I'm told this is a recall of aprox 1939 corvettes that have shocks with bad welds. I'm really surprised that a new build would have this problem. Once your car is checked it should be released. The C7 is quite a nice car and will be worth the wait. Good Lucl
Capt Bob

 

Who told you 3700?

 

Sorry, I'm a little off on my numbers.

GM Stingray Recall

From source:

"Dealers will replace the two rear shock absorbers in 1,939 2014 model year Chevrolet Corvettes in the U.S. with the FE1 or FE3 suspension to repair a possible insufficient weld in the rear shocks that could lead to a fracture and/or reduce the shocks’ service life. Thirty-three additional vehicles were sold in Canada and another 82 were exported. GM is not aware of any crashes or injuries related to this issue.."

More details can be found in the link above

 

The actually facts are that GM said the car was on this safety hold because of a suspension weld issue. The facts are that they told my dealer the process of inspection(which had not begun) would take several weeks to pull vehicles back into factory. The fact is that my car was loaded for delivery the next morning (according to driver). How would you know that my C7 was inspected or not? The mystery will always be there without knowing what really happened. The forum is interesting, however is usually composed of opinions which are quite different from facts.