A very long winded narcissistic one.

 

I think it's pretty stupid to A.) Get your panties in a twist over CR's evaluation of this car as not being the most reliable car you can buy, that's easy to believe and B.) try to refute a survey based on a much larger sample by saying 'well MY car is fine'. C.) Condemn Consumer's Union and CR as some left wing conspiracy.

Generally speaking I agree that the cars are pretty reliable, so 95% of us are happy campers. Service problems on these late model C7s impact a small % of Corvette owners. Plus very few owners really rely on the car, if it needs shop-time, it's easier to deal with than if your commuter mobile. It's my daily driver 8-9 months a year when the temps/road conditions work for a high performance car with summer tires.

CR is comparing this car to Toyotas that never break*. Modern cars are so much more reliable than in say the C3 or C4 era that even cars flagged for stuff like this still have great track records for the overwhelming majority of owners.

*to further underscore the pointless nature of anecdotal accounts when addressing overall reliability by car model consider this: Our 2017 Prius Prime (7500 miles) is tied up @ the dealership and they can't for the life of them figure out why the car keeps sending a couple of warning messages. They have contacted Toyota's American headquarters in Texas and it has gone all the way up the food chain to the engineers in Japan. That's not a typical Toyota story. By the way, the car is perfectly drivable, but it keeps telling us to get it back to the dealer. They are rapidly sailing towards lemon law territory. I really don't want to go there, I just hope they fix the car.

Anyway, I hope that makes some of you happy. Call it Korvette Witch Karma. Also, we already have 8" of snow, I'm pretty confident this dump will be closer to 2' than 1'.

 

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

I wouldn't trust ANYTHING the Consumers Report has to say! 40 years ago they were ok sometimes. Not anymore.

 

Just keep driving it when the car starts to SHUDDER between 55-80 you'll know

 

Right CR is a liberal publication typical idiotic response

 

If they are using JD POWER its usually first 90 days reliability. You don't think CHEVY commercials are bias do you?

 

no but shuddering, infotainment failures, rubber moldings not fitting, ORANGE PEEL all add up

 

problem Bill IS THAT OWNERS fill out the questionnaire about their cars.

 

ditto

 

The 15s were dreadful

 

 

Again some people can't stand the fact that THEIR car has problems and to them a harsh ride is not a big deal and annoyances like taking their car to the dealership is "just part of owning a sports car" It's like they use to say if you ride a HARLEY you have to fix a HARLEY same way with a CORVETTE but when you have owned several of these cars with virtually NO problems it's damn disappointing when your next one is a piece of crap

 

For 42 years since I bought my first new C3 Corvette, my main concern/fear has always been the half-assed Chevrolet dealers' lack of competency on repairing/servicing my newly purchased Corvette. Not the new Corvette I just bought. CR, should beat the drum on the Chev. dealers - not the C7s.




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Good one and he is right about initial quality. Looks great on the showroom and test drive but once the "happy tag" is gone the crap comes up.

But CR is garbage and always hated the Corvette or anything with a pulse. But when a manufacturer that is selling a 650 hp sports car and states it is better to use the manual transmission if you are planning on tracking it in high ambient temps then you begin to wonder about quality. (States that in the 2018 sales brochure I believe or 2018.)

3LT dash issues seem to be the same problem as the C6 4LT issues. Roof creaks? Etc.

 

I have no idea who they're polling to get this, because the '14 is incredibly reliable, and has had few reports of problems (even here, where we hear every little thing, even if it isn't really a thing) .

And as it was said upthread, how freaking reliable can a report be when they cant even get the transmission correct, and are bringing in reports of (obviously) other years?

 

Someone mentioned idiot fly-paper? You post this to flat-out facts. Amazing. Guess the noise level in here is actually higher than in the car.

 

Are you serious? Did you even watch the posted vid. Of course they’re bias, hence, the spoof...

 

No need.... but in the absence of some actual DATA to contradict and prove CR reliability ratings are flawed, we will just need to accept them. You make a claim to the contrary, and we would just need to see the data to support the claim. Logical burden of proof.

I really have no reason to believe CR one way or the other, but I am a pragmatic person and have been given no reason not to.

 

I was trained and employed as a scientist. It is scientific fact that self-report data is always suspect, subject to multiple confounding biases, and must be taken with a grain of salt. That's why the NUMMI example was so striking. That's been explained multiple times, with multiple examples of bias, by multiple smart people above, but if you as a "pragmatic person" don't get that, you just don't get it, even though you've been given many compelling reasons.

Unfortunately, there is no other available published real "DATA" with regard to vehicle reliability except in the warranty records of manufacturers. They aren't sharing.