Will Corvette C7 Stingray be immune to headlight problems of Corvette C6?

Corvette is a cheap disposable car, always was and always will be.  There is actually nothing wrong with cheap cars, as long as they are designed in a way that cheapness of materials and designs does not interfere with functionality and safety.

Unfortunately this is +General Motors where cheap means not just economical but outright corner cutting leading right down to jeopardizing driver's safety.

The case in point are the previous generation's headlights.  The headlights were notorious not just for cracking the lens and going out suddenly but also for a very annoying and safety related problem.  The problem of course was never corrected.

What was the problem?  The projector beams would suddenly start to vibrate and shake while driving, starting first with slight vibration over bumps in the road leading eventually to lights going haywire and directing the light beam all over the road and at will.

The cause of the problem lied in a cheap design of projector mounting system within the headlight using cheap parts-typical GM way.  Specifically, the projectors were mounted using weak plastic clips (3 per light unit) that were susceptible to both breaking from vibration and heat generated inside of the headlight.  As the clips failed with time, the vibration of the light units became progressively worse, with more clips being broken.

Again, GM never came up with a recall or part upgrade to remedy the obvious safety problem.  Until this day, the owners of C6 cars still deal with this problems, spending quite a bit of money after their factory warranty expires (item not cover by GMPP extended warranty of course).

Why does this come up with regards to the newest Corvette?  In spite of changed shape of the headlights, the design of the projectors is still the same and plastic clips are still there.  There is no doubt that suckers, uhm buyers of the new Corvette will be dealing with this issue shortly, it is not a matter of IF but rather WHEN.  As the number of miles accumulates, especially over rougher roads, there will be more and more people noticing and then complaining about the headlights jumping over bumps in the roads.

Of course these complaints will be initially discarded by GM until all of the clips break.  If the clips break after factory warranty expires, the buyers will be of course SOL but this is the way things go with GM and Corvette, same old POS disguised in slightly altered body.

On the bright side, since the headlight lens is still made out of the same polycarbonate that will haze and crack with time, the owners of Stingray should have a great opportunity to replace the cheap clips while dealing with lens replacement.