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Saw a '22 offered for sale online. Car placed in service a little over a year ago. It has less than 400 miles on the clock. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I've always been skittish about cars that sit in a garage without being driven.
I feel the same! Recall when I sold my C6 Z51 with ~10,000 miles and engineer from TX called and said he could buy same year about the same price with ~2000 miles. I said would not buy a 5 year old car with that few miles. Engine best when driven with typically minimum 25 miles each drive, which mine had.
He few up from TX and drove it home!
Have sold all 6 of my Vettes with 10,000 to 15,000 miles all in showroom condition. Including just sold my 2020 C8 Z51 with 11,000 miles (have an E-Ray on order currently at Event Code 3000.) IMO better than one with 400 miles! Worse if those 400 miles were many ~3 mile long trips to the Country Club and back.
Check if you can to see why so few miles AND the that the oil was changed per the OLM which would be each year minimum. Worse thing for an engine and oil is cold starts where water of combustion passes the cold piston rings and oil does not get hot enough long enough and forms things like sulfuric acid. That eats metal with the car sitting.
My '93 Vette owner's manual (page below) had this caution for garage queens )
Yep, before the OLM was used on Corvettes it said if most drives were under 4 Miles change oil every 3 Months!!! Note OLM monitors engine oil temp after cold starts and will shorten the 12 month minimum oil change if car does not run long enough to get oil hot enough to evaporate most of the water of combustion that gets into the water after a cold start:
I feel the same! Recall when I sold my C6 Z51 with ~10,000 miles and engineer from TX called and said he could buy same year about the same price with ~2000 miles. I said would not buy a 5 year old car with that few miles. Engine best when driven with typically minimum 25 miles each drive, which mine had.
He few up from TX and drove it home!
Have sold all 6 of my Vettes with 10,000 to 15,000 miles all in showroom condition. Including just sold my 2020 C8 Z51 with 11,000 miles (have an E-Ray on order currently at Event Code 3000.) IMO better than one with 400 miles! Worse if those 400 miles were many ~3 mile long trips to the Country Club and back.
Check if you can to see why so few miles AND the that the oil was changed per the OLM which would be each year minimum. Worse thing for an engine and oil is cold starts where water of combustion passes the cold piston rings and oil does not get hot enough long enough and forms things like sulfuric acid. That eats metal with the car sitting.
My '93 Vette owner's manual (page below) had this caution for garage queens )
Yep, before the OLM was used on Corvettes it said if most drives were under 4 Miles change oil every 3 Months!!! Note OLM monitors engine oil temp after cold starts and will shorten the 12 month minimum oil change if car does not run long enough to get oil hot enough to evaporate most of the water of combustion that gets into the water after a cold start:
Thanks. Carfax shows oil change at one-year interval. Dealer changed oil when they took it on a trade less than a month ago.
As long as it didn’t spend some time in a body shop it wouldn’t be a problem.
I bought a 23 with 1850 miles and it was just like new.
Bought from one of our great members on the CF.
UPdate: shoulda read thru to your more recent post. Forget the stuff below (except part about Andybump), Great that you got the car! Enjoy it.
Or waiting for parts because you'd want to know WHAT parts to see if they were done and done properly. The other thing is, get the free VIS report from (any) dealer service department on what the dealership(s) did with/for the car. Such as, the minimum yearly oil change, a must-do. And if you haven't already, read the latest "Andybump" replies/threads on the DCT trans updates as to what is required to be done, what the timing is, and how much of it is covered as part of the initial 3/36 mo. warranty paid for by GM. Others will chime in, I'm sure. And, no I wouldn't be concerned about that new a car having only 400 miles on it from so recently in-service. Good replies are above, too. Good luck with it.
High probability that you’re going to have great luck with that C8. Nothing is ever 100% guaranteed though.
Don’t worry about it, just enjoy it anyway you want. PS there is no wrong way to enjoy your Corvette. Previous owner enjoyed it the way he wanted.
Agree. I prefer to enjoy Corvettes by driving them.
Originally Posted by AORoads
UPdate: shoulda read thru to your more recent post. Forget the stuff below (except part about Andybump), Great that you got the car! Enjoy it.
Or waiting for parts because you'd want to know WHAT parts to see if they were done and done properly. The other thing is, get the free VIS report from (any) dealer service department on what the dealership(s) did with/for the car. Such as, the minimum yearly oil change, a must-do. And if you haven't already, read the latest "Andybump" replies/threads on the DCT trans updates as to what is required to be done, what the timing is, and how much of it is covered as part of the initial 3/36 mo. warranty paid for by GM. Others will chime in, I'm sure. And, no I wouldn't be concerned about that new a car having only 400 miles on it from so recently in-service. Good replies are above, too. Good luck with it.
Pulled the trigger on the car. Traded in with 353 miles. Checked the Carfax and talked to the GM, who allowed that the car belonged to a friend of the dealership owner who kept the car in a warehouse for use when he traveled to the area. Owned it for almost two years and clearly didn't drive it much. LT2, HTC, Z51, front lift.
Jim,
Congrats on a great find and welcome to the C8 fold!
Nice !!! I bought a one year old car (not a Vette) that had been sitting at the dealership. The only problem, the battery died after a couple of years. It probably sat over the winter with a dead battery. That tends to shorten the lifespan.
. Congrats and put some miles on it!
