Just don't drive in the rain or try to get out of the car! The fender alignment also looks great.

 

Issues that are easily addressed and fixed. Don't see a problem here?

 

The problem is these should be addressed at the factory before it even gets to the dealer/customer. I don't buy the whole first year crap. These are things QC should find and fix.

 

 

Cue the outrage!

 

So a ham fisted idiot pressed the button too far and broke it. That's a great video.

 

I think GM should lower the price to $39,995 starting due to the quality of this belowsupercar

 

Not sure why so many defend GM with the whole "well its a $60k car what do you expect". Well, its a $60, $70, $80, $90K car and they should make damn sure the stuff coming off the line is 100%. Granted mechanical stuff can happen, but alignment issues, paint issues, etc... should be caught at QC. There are plenty of other manufactures with $30K price tags that come out of the factory with less issues due to much better QC. I am a GM and Corvette owner, so I am not a C8 hater, just someone who expects more from them for $60K plus.

Even if they lowered the price to $39,995 it would still be unacceptable!!!

 

My guess is you're going to also see this kind of stuff in the 2021's. These paint problems were still a thing in the later model years of the C7 so why would we kid ourselves that they are going to be solved in the next 6 months? The problems and the lack of GM quality are basically hit or miss. A Chevy is a Chevy and will always be a Chevy.

I ignore the fan boy comments. I'm also really put off by GM's apparent "take the customer for granted" attitude and the belief that your average Corvette owner will be happy with any crap you throw at them, regardless of how much paint is peeling, how crooked the stitching is, how bad the panels are misaligned or how much the tranny leaks. Contrary to the apologetic comments of the many Nouveau riche (real or imagined) I worked hard for my money and value good quality even in something like the lowly Chevy Corvette.

 

ham fisted idiot? Boy someone might be mad for no reason Person who originally posted video was DailyDownshift and later in the same video the issue gets address at the dealer and fixed in 3 days with no issues.
Here’s link to entire original video.

 

Wasn't talking about the owner, who knows how many people he has had as passengers and how they treated the switch. If used wrong, you can pretty much break anything.

 

Cmon Phil, a switch, that will be pressed hundreds of times, should stand up to it. How can you use a push button wrong??

 

The guy in the video took possession of the car three months ago and is just now having an issue with a stuck door unlock button.

That doesn’t seem like something a QC check is likely to catch unless they open and lose that door many, many times.

 

The door release button is an indication of cheap parts. The panel fit indicates poor quality control.

 

Unfortunately that's what you sacrifice when mass producing a vehicle instead of hand building it. Every automobile manufacture has it's QC problems.

 

I mean, it’s not the first power window created. You’d think that would be something already sorted out. Aren’t they re using tech from other cars for that?

 

 

I am by no means a GM fan boy. I had a 1980 L82 Corvette in 1988 and it was a POS. I had nightmares for decades saying I would never own another GM car again. Fast forward after I moved to a neighborhood with a guy who had ever generation corvette in his 5 car garage with a lift in each bay. I drove his 2003 Z06 and decided to buy one myself, the quality of the interior was typical cheap fisher price plastic GM but the power was very entertaining. I purchased many Porsche’s, Lotus’s, Audi’s and BMW’Ms before and after that purchase. I sold my Lotus Evora S and purchased a 14 Z51 & the following year a 15 Z06. The interior quality was much better than my 2003 Z06 but still lacking compared to my european cars. I sold a Audi R8 and now own a C8 that i put my name on a list on 1/2016.

I have owned my C8 Z51 for a month now and I can assure you the quality of this interior is light years better than any other Corvette I have ever owned or sat in. My paint has no issues, interior stitching looks perfect and I a super OCD. I don’t make excuses for GM or any other brand that I own but what occurred in the video can happen especially on a new generation car. Since the 2009 bankruptcy GM is a better manufacturing company. My wife’s 2019 Audi Q5 has been in the shop 3 times twice for A/C system failures, I am so ready to sell that paper weight but she loves it too much. I have owned over 9 Audi products and this by far is the worse one, I think she got a bad car. My daily driver is a 2019 Volvo XC60 R Line which has been in the shop 3 times one electrical and two engine related issues.

My points to all this mechanical things break and being first out of the gates means your the betta tester for the brand. Manufacturers are being pushed to get these cars to market and the bean counters are busy beating up the suppliers to lower their prices. This combination gets you mediocrity, the good news you can always sell what ever it is and walk away.

 

Despite the fact that Chevy made a big deal in their marketing campaign that no parts other than the targa latches were used from previous cars it's been pointed out that it simply is not true. I forgot where I saw it but someone pointed out that things like window and mirror controls were used from other model Chevy cars. As long as the part looks good and works fine there's nothing wrong with reusing something that works, however when the marketing department makes these less than factual statements it takes away from GM's credibility. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't get that door button off the Chevy Spark.

 

Maybe, but what does the door release button have to do with the power windows?