Considering buying 2015 Z06
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Considering buying 2015 Z06
How concerned should I be with buying a 2015 Z06 with no extended warranty and the balance of the power-train warranty ending April 2020?
I'm having a mechanic inspect it. I imagine any extended warranty options would be non-existent or cost prohibitive.
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I'm having a mechanic inspect it. I imagine any extended warranty options would be non-existent or cost prohibitive.
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Depends on the price and your mechanic's report
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Replaced motor at 9K doesn't sound like a beat on motor. They replaced it under factory warranty. As for beating on a car what does that even mean? The cars were designed and built with the idea owners could take them to the track and run them around a road course for long periods of time so that isn't beating on it. The car has almost a year of power train warranty remaining so if anything else happens during that time period the purchaser is covered. The fact there are people who make comments like above are the reason the price is lower. Besides it is a 1LZ which is not as desirable of a car as the 2LZ.
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Replaced motor at 9K doesn't sound like a beat on motor. They replaced it under factory warranty. As for beating on a car what does that even mean? The cars were designed and built with the idea owners could take them to the track and run them around a road course for long periods of time so that isn't beating on it. The car has almost a year of power train warranty remaining so if anything else happens during that time period the purchaser is covered. The fact there are people who make comments like above are the reason the price is lower. Besides it is a 1LZ which is not as desirable of a car as the 2LZ.
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Last edited by tertiumquid; 05-14-2019 at 05:46 PM.
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I've always thought you were a pretty good and knowledgeable guy, but that's pretty damn rude. The guy is asking what WE think. Sorry not everyone's opinion matches yours.
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Buy the car and get an extended warranty. It will cost you about 2-3k and will offer peace-of-mind. Anything could have caused an engine replacement. It doesnt necessarily mean the car was beaten and there will be other indicators aside from the engine if it truly was "flogged".
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I appreciate the input.
Pending a successful inspection, I'm buying the Z06. I'm also checking with Dennis' warranty site and if reasonable, I'll probably go with it.
Pending a successful inspection, I'm buying the Z06. I'm also checking with Dennis' warranty site and if reasonable, I'll probably go with it.
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Be sure to compare the price Dennis gives you for the 2015 vs what it would be for something still under bumper to bumper. That's the main reason I bought a 2016 over a 2015.
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His point is with the design and the controls (limits) in the PCM the car cannot really over stress itself with most anything you can do to it.
The PCM protects the power train from abuse by not allowing the car to exceed any design parameter of the components. Unless the PCM has been modified to remove some of those protections.
So "beating" on a Z06 or any modern PCM controlled vehicle is really a misnomer because the PCM is designed to protect it from most anything the manufacturer would consider abuse.
This being said I am sure with a manual transmission you can back it down and pop the clutch from 20 mph or miss a gear or something along those lines and cause issues later on. But there are not going to be many, if any indicators of this until something actually breaks. Unfortunately this is the risk of buying any used car if something like this happened in its past.
Last edited by dar02081961; 05-15-2019 at 11:48 AM.