Kingman99

Hi
if you know the 3LT’s have a dashboard problem why would you buy one? I have passed on several because of this.

Alan

corvettezman

Vetteman Jack

Not all cars with the 3LT interior will have the problem and perhaps the buyer is willing to take that chance. I would be very cautious about buying one, but that is just me.

Kingman99

I am with you 100%

joemessman

I wouldn't buy one. Even if there is only one chance in ten of having the issue. My son's 2017 Z06 3LZ had to have two replacements and both failed. He then had a 2LZ dash installed on his own dime.

Maxpowers

I bought my '16 new and thought the issue was fixed. Replaced under warranty after1 year and the new one has been perfect since.

DGA3

14point5

I think the 3LTs with leather dash problems and A8 cars with the transmission shudder were and are more likely to get traded-in or sold thus these issues pop up frequently among disappointed second hand owners.
You never hear a peep from the original owners who were trouble free.

karlm

Original owner, trouble free

9sec

I owned a 3zr 2010 zr1 and now a 17 3lz a8 c7 z07. zero issues with the dash in either and zero trans issues with the a8. when im out with the car and park it I use a sunshade . at a car show I dont worry about it. if either fails ill simply have it repaired. from the very first car ever built they have had issues no such thing as a perfect car

dplotkin

I'm new with a C7 (19 GS 7M 2LT July 23) and am a regular on the C2 forum. I was completely freaked out reading about all these "systemic" problems with C7 cars, cracking wheels, tranny shudder on automatics, engine failures, 3LT delamination and on and on.

However a fella with a pair of C6's (my neighbor who got me into this modern Vette thing) warned me about reading tales of woe on this or any forum. He made the point that Chevrolet made 40,000 cars +/- each year and when we hear from two or three with a problem we tend to condemn the whole lot as likely to exhibit the same failures.

And yet, Consumer Reports, that bastion of all things fast and powerful regards the C7 as very reliable! CR would recommend the car to a family if it had a back seat and a trunk.

It is good to have the discipline to know that some people have bad luck but that the likelihood of any of these oft mentioned maladies happening to any of us is very small (except perhaps for the 3LT glue thing, I avoided that too).

Dan

B-17/B-25 CC

I knew about the possible problem when I bought mine. It looked perfect (Car was made fall of 2015, I bought it used Jan 2018). Fall of 2018 started coming up around the HUD and defroster, missed warranty by two weeks. I had to pay 1/3 to replace - approx $950.

I wish I had gotten a 2LT now, and will never buy a 3LT again.

Skid Row Joe

They don't all have dashboard problems.

Skid Row Joe

Original owner, trouble free.




The C7 is the most trouble free Corvette since Day 1 of Corvette. I pored over the CF C7 forum for years before buying one.

Seven years and three months from new. Mine's trouble free.


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Red86Cfour

And even stranger, from what I read, the first year 2014 is the most reliable of them all. Mine is a 14 and is still on its original battery, and except for the dash, which doesn't bother me much, its been trouble free too.

Skid Row Joe

Amen!

Not "strange," but factual! As descibed by CF C7 forum members. I started reading in earnest in late 2013 when the Canadian guy (can't recall his name....) posted a photo of his new 2014 Arctic White 7-speed, Black wheels at the small Chevy dealer on picking it up. I was hooked reading all I could about the C7 as per ACTUAL C7 Forum owners!

Exactly 4-years later, November 2017, I picked up my new 2017 convertible, 7-speed, Black gloss wheels, MSRC, 3LT in Houston, Texas.

Not a great photo, (at night) but right after I closed the deal at the Chevrolet dealer.

3Mar67

Mine is a 2019, and 3LT dash is fine -- hope it stays that way.

MrGary2011

I bought mine before I knew. But enjoyed the challenge of putting in a new one (2LT) for my 3LT interior. Very happy!

HOXXOH

IIRC GM solved the dash issue near the end of the 2018 MY. I have a Late production (May 2019) 3LT and the dash has no issues as of today and 29K miles. If heat caused the original problem, then you would expect the dry heat of AZ to be the #1 location to kill dashes, yet I don't know of anyone locally that's had a dash replaced. On this issue, I'd be more inclined to believe the problem to be an GM employee who didn't always do a good glue job following the required procedure. Then again, GM may have never created a procedure and assumed that it wasn't necessary, until a number of owners had problems..

C746490

Do the 2019 GS 3LT have the dash problem or has GM figured it out?