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Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.
Cig lighter stopped working
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Fuse would be my first guess too. Perhaps the pump was drawing too much current.
But another possibility is that the wire on back of the lighter socket might have come loose. Seems to me I had problems with it coming loose whenever I had to pull the console out when working on the shifter.
But another possibility is that the wire on back of the lighter socket might have come loose. Seems to me I had problems with it coming loose whenever I had to pull the console out when working on the shifter.
I doubt that the newer vettes will be any easier to work on. GM's engineers and designers don't have to work on the vehicles they design, obviously.
Yeah, I know a new car will come with a factory warranty, but honestly I have never been real impressed with the care (or lack thereof) that the service departments give to customer's cars when they are working on them. You run the risk of having your original problem fixed, just to find that they damaged something else on your car.
IMHO.
Yeah, I know a new car will come with a factory warranty, but honestly I have never been real impressed with the care (or lack thereof) that the service departments give to customer's cars when they are working on them. You run the risk of having your original problem fixed, just to find that they damaged something else on your car.
IMHO.
CHASZ51
Z51
I just don't like keeping a car past 7 years old. And now with no parts if something big goes wrong i am done. I know even a new Vette can have probs.
Not sure when the parts problem will get back to normal. Saw a used 2019 1LT for $45k with 15k miles. But i won't be gaining power since i have headers and tune. Really looking for a nice 2018 or 19 Z51.
Not sure when the parts problem will get back to normal. Saw a used 2019 1LT for $45k with 15k miles. But i won't be gaining power since i have headers and tune. Really looking for a nice 2018 or 19 Z51.
Yeah, I do know what you mean. There are so many electronics modules in cars these days. But heck, that is true with just about everything lately. I had a devil of a time with my standby generator a little while back, and wound up having to buy a used electronics module to finally fix it.
Certainly the manufacturers of automobiles don't have any incentive to stock parts indefinitely, since they are in business to sell new vehicles. But for us consumers to be spending $50,000+ on what soon becomes almost a throwaway item, well, it does give you pause when you think about it. It is a game that becomes tiresome after a while from playing it for so long.
But what are you going to do? We do like our wheels for getting around town...... I guess we could all just move to The Villages and drive golf carts. Maybe try our hand at souping them up a bit. :hehehe:
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Certainly the manufacturers of automobiles don't have any incentive to stock parts indefinitely, since they are in business to sell new vehicles. But for us consumers to be spending $50,000+ on what soon becomes almost a throwaway item, well, it does give you pause when you think about it. It is a game that becomes tiresome after a while from playing it for so long.
But what are you going to do? We do like our wheels for getting around town...... I guess we could all just move to The Villages and drive golf carts. Maybe try our hand at souping them up a bit. :hehehe:
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CHASZ51
Z51
Yeah, I do know what you mean. There are so many electronics modules in cars these days. But heck, that is true with just about everything lately. I had a devil of a time with my standby generator a little while back, and wound up having to buy a used electronics module to finally fix it.
Certainly the manufacturers of automobiles don't have any incentive to stock parts indefinitely, since they are in business to sell new vehicles. But for us consumers to be spending $50,000+ on what soon becomes almost a throwaway item, well, it does give you pause when you think about it. It is a game that becomes tiresome after a while from playing it for so long.
But what are you going to do? We do like our wheels for getting around town...... I guess we could all just move to The Villages and drive golf carts. Maybe try our hand at souping them up a bit. :hehehe:
Guess if i get a 2019 C7 i will leave it stock and just add a cat back. I am hoping the 8 speed trans in the 2019's will be ok. It was a nitemare for many with the 2015's thru 17's. I notice people are dumping Vettes like crazy now.
Any ideas on why people are dumping them?
CHASZ51
Z51
No jobs i guess and the economy. Seen tons of low mile Vettes for sale.
That makes sense, I suppose. But I thought most Corvette owners were old and retired. :shrug01:
navy2kcoupe
!ereH nI depparT m'I pleH
Check mark on both of those for me!
Andy
Yeah, me too, Andy.... :hehehe:
Does that mean you didn't jump hard enough, or the dealer got offered more money from someone else?
CHASZ51
Z51
Not sure what game they played. They took my info on my trade and then said by way someone was ahead of me. I bought my C6 from them. Not sure why they went to the trouble to bother me about a trade if someone was ahead of me.
I believe that is a ploy many car salesmen use. I guess it is to try to keep you from trying to beat them to death on the price if you are led to believe it could be sold to someone else in front of you. Perhaps they are hoping that you will panic and offer them more money than they are asking. When we bought Connie's truck, the salesman told me the same thing. That a customer was heading over right now from their other dealership across town, but since we were right there now, we could have the truck if we bought it RIGHT NOW. Well, Connie REALLY wanted that truck, otherwise I would have just hung around to see what happened.
Car sales people do some really tricky stuff sometimes. And no matter how long you have done business with any one of them, or a dealership, no one there is really your friend. IMHO.
CHASZ51
Z51
I am just gonna keep my C6 for a while. Not sure what to do with all this crap going on. The C8 just does not have the space of my C6 and i go fishing offshore and can carry all my stuff in a C6.
Heck, I'm debating on the extended warranty on the Grand Cherokee I just bought. With this CCP Virus thing, I'm not sure how much driving around Connie and I will be doing. Sort of blew any even remote chance of traveling we have had, right out of the water. We sure as heck don't want to be eating at restaurants, or anywhere someone else has been handling our food. And staying at a motel where who knows how many people who might have been infected with the virus stayed and slept in within the past month. I read an account of one of those cruise ships had active virus in it 17 days after everyone had been removed from the ship. So they are still learning about this thing, and anything they are telling us right now is going to be subject to revision based on new and more accurate data they accumulate. For one thing, no one has even a clue about how many asymptomatic carriers there are out there right at the moment. And they keep on dancing around just how airborne this virus might be.
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