How often does your C3 let you down?
04-11-2002, 10:52 AM
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How often does your C3 let you down?
How many times a year does your C3 leave you stranded on the side of the road? Never? More often than you can count on your fingers & toes? I'm curious... :cheers:
04-11-2002, 10:57 AM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (page62)
Mine is usually a result of me playing tooooooo hard :boxing :) .
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04-11-2002, 11:14 AM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (SmokedTires)
i think the car has been broken more times then i drove it... last time i got on it.. it wound up in a deer :nopity
04-11-2002, 11:32 AM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (page62)
Proud to say that the Vette has never left me stranded. It's a daily driver. Closest it got was when the lower rad hose burst at lunch. I drove it back to the office. Pulled into the parking space just as the temp gauge pegged. :)
Hitched a ride to NAPA, and then installed the new hose. Many trips to the company break room produced enough water to fill the radiator.
Now my new car, a 96 Z28 HAS left me stranded once. One of the wires inside the column for the pass-key system broke and the computer couldn't read my ignition key resistor. That one required a tow-truck. GM payed for everything under warranty, but still a hassle.
My other old car, '83 Caddy DeVille, also never left me stranded. Even with close to zero maintenance for the last 20 years. Still had original plugs and wires when I got it last year!
Think I'll stick to old cars...
Hitched a ride to NAPA, and then installed the new hose. Many trips to the company break room produced enough water to fill the radiator.
Now my new car, a 96 Z28 HAS left me stranded once. One of the wires inside the column for the pass-key system broke and the computer couldn't read my ignition key resistor. That one required a tow-truck. GM payed for everything under warranty, but still a hassle.
My other old car, '83 Caddy DeVille, also never left me stranded. Even with close to zero maintenance for the last 20 years. Still had original plugs and wires when I got it last year!
Think I'll stick to old cars...
04-11-2002, 11:51 AM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (page62)
Once - and it wasn't even my C3's fault (technically).... :crazy:
See, I had this 'bright' idea to install a performance coil in place of the old working 'stock' one.... (it was a Summit 'special' if you know what I mean)
Well, cruisin' on the freeway following my Boss to a jobsite my car quit ! .....had to get it 'towed' home - to this day the old coil is back on & running strong !!! :eek: :chevy
See, I had this 'bright' idea to install a performance coil in place of the old working 'stock' one.... (it was a Summit 'special' if you know what I mean)
Well, cruisin' on the freeway following my Boss to a jobsite my car quit ! .....had to get it 'towed' home - to this day the old coil is back on & running strong !!! :eek: :chevy
04-11-2002, 02:51 PM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (page62)
Hasn't left me yet. Closest I ever came was a broken throttle cable, but I just cranked up the idle and limped in. Now my '92 Suburban (POS), that d#$!^& thing leaves me walkin' all the time! It's a good thing I have AAA plus...
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04-11-2002, 03:04 PM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (Wrencher)
never yet...and if it does.....I'll look better standing next to my vette with its hood in the air than that guy in that rustang wishing he had one ! :lol:
04-11-2002, 03:22 PM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (ylose)
'78 L48 (driver). Commuted every weekend for 10 weeks (January, February and half of March) from Trenton ON to St Jean (Montreal area) Quebec (about 180 miles). No problems! Even passed several motorists in 'modern' vehicles stuck in 6-8 inches of snow (a full gas tank, positraction and Goodyear Eagle GT IIs-P225-70s). Gas mileage wasn't great (estimate around 15-17 miles per Imperial gallon); but what the heck!
It's my wife's car, and the only problem we've ever had that affected our ability to drive it, was a 'sticking' throttle linkeage suffered when she was driving the car on the 401 one night, causing the engine to 'race' at 3500-4000 rpm, even when she tried to stop at a gas station for gas. In case you're wondering, normal brakes would barely hold the car against this much throttle. She initially thought she was losing the brakes as she came up the off-ramp. All I did to 'cure' it (at least enough to get it home) was to stomp on the accelerator a couple of times until the 'stickiness' let go. It was being driven to storage for the winter on that trip, so I haven't gotten around to diagnosing and performing a proper 'cure'. Overall, though: a reliable car!
It's my wife's car, and the only problem we've ever had that affected our ability to drive it, was a 'sticking' throttle linkeage suffered when she was driving the car on the 401 one night, causing the engine to 'race' at 3500-4000 rpm, even when she tried to stop at a gas station for gas. In case you're wondering, normal brakes would barely hold the car against this much throttle. She initially thought she was losing the brakes as she came up the off-ramp. All I did to 'cure' it (at least enough to get it home) was to stomp on the accelerator a couple of times until the 'stickiness' let go. It was being driven to storage for the winter on that trip, so I haven't gotten around to diagnosing and performing a proper 'cure'. Overall, though: a reliable car!
04-11-2002, 04:30 PM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (macnav)
I the 10 years I have owned My Vette ''she'' has only let me down Once...and that was about a year ago..when the starter quit.
04-11-2002, 06:22 PM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (page62)
The reverse shifter lockout had a problem after an oil change once. Stranded me for about 10 minutes until I thought to put it in neutral and back into park again. Started right up after that. Duh!!!
04-11-2002, 10:50 PM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (page62)
My starter died at Mid-Ohio as they were lining us up for a parade lap. Melted the terminal off the battery cable. Glad I had a 9/16" wrench and a pair of vise-grips, and a NAPA near by. Nothing like being 3 hours from home with a broken toy.
04-11-2002, 11:33 PM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (Racer16k)
to often here recently. Im getting the itch for more power, so everytime I put it to the floor, I feel a little let down. Also when its a beautiful day in the 70's or 80's, and realize its not a convertible. :D
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04-12-2002, 12:40 AM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (page62)
Stranded me twice. Once battery dead at a gas station then out of gas.
Both my fault actually...so the question is "How often do you let your C3 down?" :D
Both my fault actually...so the question is "How often do you let your C3 down?" :D
04-13-2002, 12:01 AM
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Re: How often does your C3 let you down? (page62)
My vette when has a beat up engine and I niavely drove it to college everyday for most of a year. Mind U I had to show a couple of mustangs what was up with my great white beast. Come to find out that 3 cylinders weren't compressing, and a host of other things were going on. The thing ran great even on only 5 cylinders. LOL gotta rebuild the darn thing now. its been in storage a couple of years and needs a new tires and some other little odds and ends but it will (probably) still run. given a new tank of gas and such ilk. Just not well. good ol' american engineering for ya.
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