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Torque converter failure 2015
8.36%
Torque converter failure 2016
4.18%
Torque converter failure 2017
2.09%
Transmission failure 2015
3.13%
Transmission failure 2016
0.52%
Transmission failure 2017
0.78%
No failure 2015
26.37%
No failure 2016
39.43%
No failure 2017
22.19%
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Old Jan 4, 2017 | 10:50 PM
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Select if you have had an A8 failure or not. The poll is broken down by actual transmission failure or just torque converter failure. It is broken down by year model for both failures and non failures. This is for STOCK tune cars that have never been tuned.

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^^^ Well....hopefully Black & White (currently Road Candy) will be by with his 31 user accounts to vote 31 times.

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Originally Posted by h3mpking
Select if you have had an A8 failure or not. The poll is broken down by actual transmission failure or just torque converter failure. This is broken down by year model for both failures and non failures.
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Old Jan 4, 2017 | 10:56 PM
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It showed up, finally. I couldn't see it at first, either.
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Old Jan 4, 2017 | 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by BRCC
Poll ???

Do you not see it still?

Originally Posted by owc6
It showed up, finally. I couldn't see it at first, either.
Cool.. you had me worried for a second.

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Old Jan 4, 2017 | 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by h3mpking
Do you not see it still?
It finally came up.
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Old Jan 4, 2017 | 11:17 PM
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2016, no failures as of yet but I have only 280 miles on mine so far.
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Old Jan 4, 2017 | 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by hangman
2016, no failures as of yet but I have only 280 miles on mine so far.
You are just getting warmed up. Are you stored for the winter, or somewhere you can get decent days to drive?
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Old Jan 4, 2017 | 11:24 PM
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1/28/16 build Z51...just under 4,000 miles...flawless so far.
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Originally Posted by h3mpking
You are just getting warmed up. Are you stored for the winter, or somewhere you can get decent days to drive?
I am in Houston so I can drive it most of winter.
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^^^ Awesome. Have fun!

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Old Jan 5, 2017 | 12:05 AM
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I won't vote till it's confirmed by the dealer that it is indeed TC. Should know for sure by weekend.
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Old Jan 5, 2017 | 12:11 AM
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I have a 03/16 build Stingray with no issues, but with only 2800 miles on it. It will be interesting to hear from those at 10K miles and more.
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Originally Posted by KrikGS
I won't vote till it's confirmed by the dealer that it is indeed TC. Should know for sure by weekend.
Good luck and hopefully whatever it is that it gets fixed right.
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No fail, but only 2400 miles. Car is perfect so far.
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I am at 5,000 miles no problems yet.
Here is another poll that looked at miles without problems.


https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ance-poll.html
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^^^ Thanks.. I'd like to get a larger number polled on this hopefully.

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^^^ Well....hopefully Black & White (currently Road Candy) will be by with his 31 user accounts to vote 31 times.

Fingers crossed

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All systems are GO at throttleup!
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great tranny w/ no issues. i use the gears up and down, love the 2500-5500 rpm range. very close to my past pdk performance. sad to hear of other's issues, but none here. 2lt z51 built 1/16, delivered new 7/16 now @ 4200 miles.
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Has GM ever released any figures on failures? Probably not but I bet the % per A8's sold is low.
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