...before turning into a pure nightmare, leaving bitter aftertaste and avoidance not just toward the latest Corvette but anything made by General Motors altogether.
Now, instead of this blog bludgeoning Tadge Juechter (all well deserved), why not quote another formerly happy owner instead. Juchter and GM, are you listening? Of course you are not...
After 2 months of dealing with this C7, its clear that being a GM owner is just not for me. The transmission has been pulled from the car 3 times now, and the issues are still not resolved.
I'm just over it. The only possible reason to spend this kind of money on a sports car is if you enjoy it. Even if it was fixed today, the experience has completely eroded any kind of enjoyment that I was hoping to get from owning a Corvette.
It's just not a viable car to own long-term, and I would not consider owning a GM car at this point under any circumstance. Just look at the other transmission failures across the rest of their product lines...
A big F-YOU also to Classic Chevrolet in Sugarland, TX for throwing up their hands. The tech even confirmed that the engineis still running so rough that its triggering the knock sensor, but they just aren't going to do anything about it.
Just throwing this out there before I deactivate my account here, just in case I can possibly save one person from the terrible mistake I made by assuming that a C7 Corvette is a viable vehicle to actually drive further than 10,000mi without its drivetrain imploding.
Queue the GM apologists replying, telling me how ridiculous I am, and how their car is super-great. Out of 3 people I know with C7's, now all 3 of us have had transmission replacements. You can't tell me that's an anomaly.
It's just not a well built car. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
Hmmm you've been crying for years about the missing Nurburgring time. Now that we have a respectable time, on the well under 100k certified supercar, you appear to have gone silent??? PeterMJ "EXPOSED" LMFAO!!!
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they finally set a time? *immediately starts googling for info*
ReplyDeleteok, 7:13.90, 6 seconds quicker than the C6 ZR1. 2.14 seconds quicker than the Camaro. Not sure I'm finding that all too impressive. I mean, it's bloody fast but the improvement over the C6 is not on the level of what Porsche just pulled off (997 GT2 RS vs 991 GT2 RS). And it's only 2.14 seconds quicker than a 4-seater... Of course, as articles suggest, a GM factory driver might put in a better time. But for some reason they haven't been able to. No, for a "supercar" this would have been semi-impressive in 2014 but not in 2017.
In defense of PeterMJ, he has been very quiet lately, starting long before the Corvette managed to get a laptime.
It stopped me from buying one. There are other reports on the transmission online as well. Google it. I couldn't get a straight answer from a Chevy salesman when i showed him the article and service announcements. I asked him if the engineering was redsigned in the '18 and he said NO. WHY WOULD THEY NOT ANNOUNCE A NEWLY ENGINEERED TRANNY? I love Corvettes, but not gonna take the chance.
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