Chalk up another engine failure
 

2019 GS, 2,488 miles

Driving along at around 45 (in 5th), heard a pop and then a loud ticking noise. This happened about 2 miles from leaving home (fortunately?). Limped home and noticed car would madly ping if too much accelerator used. Time to call flatbed in the morning for trip to dealer.

I suspect it either dropped a valve, lost a lifter or a rocker...

Sounds like broken rocker. Neighbor had this happen on his 2015 when it was still fairly new.

Have you been red lining the engine? Driving it hard?

Seems like most the small number of LT1 failures have been cases of infant mortality. There are an awful lot of high-mileage LT1s out there now. It's not unusual for manufacturers to get a run of bad parts every so often.

Good luck on a quick warranty fix.

Nope, never have. And as it wasn't yet warm this morning, I was taking it easy too (maybe 3 grand max)

Yea, my 2014 was flawless, right up until I sold it with 52K miles

Are they getting any internals from China ? Not trying to be funny but there is so much JUNK coming out of there.

Indeed. This why it's very important to actually drive your new Corvettes - so that this doesn't happen out of warranty. Excessive garage queening, won't expose the car to what it was built for - being ​​​​​​​ driven!

Oh, didn't throw a single error to the DIC but I'm gonna read the OBD-II and see what that says

Not surprised. It was functioning perfectly until something broke. The same thing happened with my LS7 failure about 10 years ago. I was cruising along at highway speeds spinning under 2K rpm when all hell broke loose.

Wow !!!! Didnt you just take possession of the car in Nov. 2018

Yup :sadangel:

Did you purchase new or used? If the latter, I sure hope the previous owner didn't go after-market tune.

New, through MacMulkin. No tunes, no worry :D

Sorry to hear about your problem Ken, sincerely hope this works out for you. Keep us posted.

5 year, 60,000 mile powertrain warranty by the time that expires on my 2017 they should have worked the bugs out of the C8 and mate a M/T to it.

Oh, I 'm not mad or anything just kinda bummed.

I know these things happen and I'm sure it'll work out smoothly (my dealer has 2 certified 'vette techs, has for years and I have a VERY good relationship with them, going on 15+ years now)

When that occurred, and after it was fixed, did you lose faith in the brand and move to the imports for several years before your 2014 C7?

I know that I've had a tendency to trade off when big repairs have been done on previous vehicles. I always want to move on.

..Maybe Ken will lose interest in this particular car and just buy a new one. Sometimes these cars are Jonahed, and ya gotta start over.

.. I'm somewhat at that point with my diesel coach (RV) - I just might want to move on. Although I have owned it since 2003 - only 101K miles.......so maybe it's time?

Ken that's what you get using that 0-40 oil.... Seriously, glad you're covered. Think new engine or rebuild?

If it's just a rocker or some other upper end issue, I can't see a new engine for that. Now...if it dropped a valve, I might press the issue a bit more.......