DON'T DO THIS IN YOUR C8 CORVETTE ~ TECH TUESDAY & YOUR RIDES

and now it's time for Tech Tuesday, offering the advice you want to hear from the man who's truly passionate about his job: Do you want it done right, or do you want it done right now? Other

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nicians can't wait to ask him a question he doesn't ask. Your mom he's the star of Tech Tuesday Chuck here from here from here could you stop dancing? We are trying to prepare. Oh, okay, we're actually standing

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week. Hey guys, good to see you. Welcome to another Tech Tuesday. I told you. we'll do as many as we can when we can right now we can so we can it's good to see you thank you for taking

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time it's good to see you one I'm sorry two for last week I said something to you before that we were trying to prepare and we wanted to create a nice, informal atmosphere between the cars, we had lights on the back wall and I said man, I'm looking at the camera, I said man, those lights shine a little because they don't I don't know, okay, but actually in the pictures you see that everyone commented last week, yeah , Rick, I couldn't see you, but if you're listening, I thought last week we had a great conversation, a lot of good things you guys said and it's not like we didn't try, we turned off the lights and everything, but then it was too dark.

I mean, that's the difficulty we went through trying to put together and make a show for you and we want to present it as best we can. so one quick thing,

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is not Studio B, no, this is a store, this is a store that's okay, the right shot is cut. I want to start tonight's show by following and showing you as best we can, uh, one of the questions is asked by someone trying to shortcut a way to add the extra and in fact, today we also have all the CA questions about how to add a shortcut to the two extra quartz and the transmission fluid to

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C8 DCT and you talked about it, you talked about angles and people. say 13 degrees I actually think it's actually steeper than that doing it on your own which makes it even more dangerous that's what I want to show you or show the audience absolutely yes I will it's just my car , I can put that in the car there, that's fine, I mean, first of all, are we doing this now?

Yes, you want me to show it to you with your car and no, it's not happening, no, because it's too dangerous. Well, number one, it's improper use of a lift, to use these correctly. ready to do that would be inappropriate and unsafe and that's what I wanted to emphasize to the audience there are a lot of guys out there what are your famous words are you famous do you want it done right or do you want it done right now yes and there are guys who will use a floor jack and I said well Chuck let's show the audience how steep it really is and how dangerous it is and you guys said oh no I'm not going to put your car on a floor jack at that angle oh no a floor jack in a central place where the car sways no, no, very dangerous, yes, and that's the point we wanted to make tonight, so show people the little art project that did well, like I said you wanted them to did with your car and It's like it's not happening so I have these tens of tuba that I use to get on the alignment stand and as you can see this has a 13 to 15 degree angle with the wood and I threw a box . there to do it and show you more what's going on, and I don't think it's high enough to put in the extra two liters of transmission fluid and what you have to realize is that once you have the car at this kind of angle , you have to remove the left rear wheel of the car, you have to reach from the outside of the car almost halfway up the car to get to the drain plug to take it out, hopefully you don't drop it, yeah, because everyone knows if you've been under the C8, they are closed, so if you release the drain plug, you have an extra two liters of core or two liters of fluid in the drain plugs to roll into the closure panel, now we do it right.

Don't drop it to get a drain plug all the fluid comes back out okay plus two isn't there something two you're talking about having the engine running so some of the fluid yeah because when we do the DTC filter we have to put it on the rack, lift it up and run it through all the gears for at least two to three minutes, which disperses all the transmission fluid into the clutch packs and fills the transmission, then in less than five to ten minutes, they want you to do it. Take out the plug, add whatever you need to refill it, put the plug back in, yes, because part of the service is topping off the liquid, right, that's right, and that's why you can't from that point unless I'm Making this angle so severe that it's totally wrong and unsafe for me is dangerous, right?

This is pretty dangerous if you do it unless you have two floor jacks, if the guys are doing this with a floor jack in the center of the car, God be with you, that's all I have, yeah, and that's exactly why I wanted to continue with that last week. I don't think so because we don't show the severity of an angle and we don't let people understand that it is. We do it the way according to the GM, but if you do it with shortcut number one, it's wrong, number two, there's a lot of risk involved and it's extremely dangerous, even if you do it now, a lot of people don't have this setup, but if they did a grille and actually tilt it to the degree necessary to get the fluid in there to try to do that you said the car would actually slide on the grille yeah most likely yes okay so I appreciate you that you do it.

I mean, again, we love to educate the audience, but really, the more I thought about it since last week, I didn't see it and I didn't understand how serious it is and how dangerous it is, guys, don't take shortcuts on this, especially those of you who do it at home are using just a little Jack it's like no man's okay but I'm not going to do it and I know the big guys out there oh I did it my friend did it and no no problem, okay, good for you, we just tried. What I share on this channel is Chevrolet's way of telling you to do things the right way so that you are safe and properly informed.

We do everything we can. They know about it. It's never a problem until it's a problem. I love it, I have to write that in another bit, right, I don't have a shirt big enough for all these chuck-isms, we'll have to do one eventually. Well, thanks again for the emails guys, email us on the screen if you want. send something for Tech Tuesday, like I said today, it's kind of a market, people wait so long for cars, today everything is C8 Rick and Chuck. I love Vlogs and I watch them all the time. I got an HTC 22 that I waited for 11 months. and I drove it home it was only two miles, it's in the garage.

I don't really drive it much. Right now I have 172 miles on the car, I haven't even gotten over 55 miles an hour and I haven't even started it yet, it's been taken care of and Rick, I know you drive your damn thing all the time. I want to start it today and show it to a friend. I had it running for about 10 seconds turned it off and then about 30 minutes later I got an email from OnStar uh always green everything was fine two minutes later I got another email and it had a check engine light warning on the car so I went back out to start the car again and noticed the check engine light was on it was just on.

It wasn't flashing it goes into Drive In Reverse no problem uh it looks normal I keep a trickle charger on all the time I have no problems uh Chuck is there anything I can do to fix this without taking it to the dealership? It's 172 miles. alone in the car and I'm in Utah and it's winter now thanks for your help Brent and before I answer that he says guys I want to continue with the check engine light and he says. I actually contacted OnStar. and I spoke to a

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nician. I asked them to send me the vehicle diagnostic report and they did.

He says a problem has been detected with the air induction system that monitors and controls air intake to the engine. The diagnostic code is p00ff. You are familiar. With that, well, yes, we are looking for this and we have talked about it forever. Guys, these cars are more computers than mechanical, so this Poff is a code that was sent from the body control module to the engine control module to say that. there is a problem in the subsystem there is no light for that could be the transmission chassis control its just all the systems in the car i mean if they put a cigarette lighter a warning for every module in the car its board would be huge.

Let me leave that for a second too, it goes back to what we've talked about numerous times on previous Tech Tuesdays for the C7 guys that we're getting into auto services, check this, do this, do that and the first thing we would say is check your battery properly because through that module there wasn't enough power, you were getting all these false codes, yes, and they were all chasing the rabbit down the hole, I wasn't actually getting to the direct problem, check your battery first, yes, no It doesn't sound like it's going to be a problem, he says he just didn't want to get into the situation where they have to replace a transmission.

I don't think that's the case because like I said above, it could have caused yours. problem, as I said before, I wanted to show my friend the car and the exhaust. He had the cover on. I took the cover off and put the cover on top of the trunk and the HTC. I don't know if you can see it. In the chamber, there's a little vent right next to the trunk, so you put it in there and he thinks that actually, because that sucks, Aaron, it probably caused that code, he very well could have and he has another question for you, like this what i think I think you're right about that slightly strange situation, but that's how we found out.

I have another question for you. He says, could you have disconnected the battery for a few minutes to clear the code on this new Global B platform? Don't know. I know if that's necessarily possible, but my only concern is, like I said, that this right p-o-f-p-o-off is a subcode of one of the other systems, so it just alerts you that there's a problem somewhere and if you clear the code and no If you don't come back you will never know what happened to the path where it came from yeah so I mean it's possible but I don't know.

I'd probably wait and see if I have any more issues with the card where you have to take it to the dealer because once you clear that code you clear all the history and then the car has to run again before we can diagnose it and that's usually the last resort. , you know if you are in a situation. where you're somewhere and you're trying to try something to get the car to move, disconnect the battery, restart which is kind of a last resort, so yeah, yeah, GM has really gotten away from us disconnecting the batteries for that reason. so there are so many more computers in this car it's ridiculous, yeah, because if you're going to disconnect the battery, always remember black off first, black on last, yeah, oh yeah, if you disconnect the battery, you turn on one of the modules and You kill it, oh.

Oh my gosh, yes, yes, that's bad, right, good point, very good reminders for him, for me and for you, thank you for seeing what you understood. This one comes from John, it says Hello, Rick and Chuck. I finally bought the 2023 Corvette C8 with two LTs. details and a z51 performance package with metallic gray Matrix ceramic color. I love it, the car continues to surprise me in terms of performance and luxury every time I drive it. He is on the waiting list for the Z06. Good luck. I hope you do well. Yes. I had performance driving education and this and that.

Your question is the refractive reflection that appears in the PDR video on sunny days. See the images at the bottom. What can be done to reduce or eliminate glare? I have heard that using a non-ammonia window cleaner will help the Chevrolet do anything to fix this problem. They can relocate the PDR camera, change the angle or install a filter. I don't know if they are doing anything about it. No they will not. No, my only suggestion would be to maybe get a rubber mat that you can throw on there or a towel. A towel might slide if you had a thin piece of foam you could throw there to reduce glare. could help, yes, I read your email and I appreciate that it's this John from uh, yes, John from Waukesha Wisconsin.

Also appreciated the fact that I shared real experiences with you and my mistakes that we make on the track and that's how everyone learns together on the channel, so I really appreciate you seeing and participating in those situations absolutely and in fact the photos that sent over his Dash were a black Dash, so imagine if you had the natural Dash it would be worse, oh yeah, yeah. it'll get worse, go ahead buddy, okay this one comes from Alan and he says I love your channel because it offers a wide variety of quality content on the beloved C8 Corvette.

Thank you for the effort and time you dedicate. I have a technical question on Tuesday. For you, I'm planning on using my Corvette C8 both for the track every other month and for the street on a regular basis. Now I have heard that crack alignment is notcheap. It has approximately 400 here. I was considering doing it or giving up my car. on track alignment, however you are concerned about excessive tire wear, do you have recommendations? Are you aware of alignments that somehow between track and street reduce understeer, but do not create excessive tire wear? It is correct in any alignment on a C8, whether you try any. the alignment is going to be expensive, especially if you have a z51 because on the z51 they put in the trim panels, brake ducts and everything, and it actually covers all the adjusters, so before you can align the car you have to put it in a rack and remove all that stuff before you can get to the adjusters, which makes it expensive?

Number two, do a track alignment and change them. round trip yes, it can be very expensive and sometimes it is difficult to get it back to exact specifications, isn't that right? We had a gentleman come in, we did a track alignment, he went to the track, came back and said, "Okay, put it on." Back to the factory now we could never get it back to the factory. He swore he didn't hit anything on the track or go off the track, but I tell people all the time that they can tell me whatever they want. The car is going to tell me the truth by not being able to return it to factory specifications.

He obviously dropped it off the asphalt or did something. He tuned the car. I think he later admitted that he did. He went up to the floor and pressed Hold or something like that. like that, yes, yes, exactly, it's also difficult because driving on the street following the track alignment will wear out the tires, but I don't think you'll like the way the car handles just to drive on the street, not at that . I think we've talked about it before and we're going to talk about us getting closer to a new season, we're going to talk more about the follow-up because I'm trying to get more into the track lineup, I think.

For me personally, because I'm not doing competition type safe driving and I know I would get better handling out of my car if you changed it. I don't want to go through the hassle and expense of changing it back and forth. round trip, I think for the high speed tracks it's in Sacramento, I don't know if it goes to Willow Springs or something like that, yeah, if you're not driving competitively, I guess you really have to weigh up for yourself what you're doing. You're trying to get out of your sessions and what you're trying to get out of your car.

Yes, track alignment will make the car perform much better. You sure have to really evaluate your particular situation, I think. It's more important in the message I want to give to everyone, but not to the gentleman who sent us the email. Correct. Okay, I'll let you do it. I know you have two. I'll let you make one and I received one and then we'll do it. I will finish it and show some attractive cars with a beautiful driving segment. Do not come. This one comes from Scott in Pennsylvania. He says I have a 3200 mile HTC 22 C8 radio turned off.

I have noticed a constant ticking motor. Its on? an exhaust manifold main cam valve injector or I want to remove the engine cover to investigate I don't want to remove the engine cover while under warranty loss of online chat to issue I appreciate your professional opinions of both I don't know what kind of chat online you're listening to, the only thing I know about these cars is that we can now hear the engines behind us a little better than when we were in front of us and these things have direct fuel injectors and a high pressure fuel pump on them it's running 28 to 35,000 PSI supplying those direct injectors so that's probably the noise you're hearing because it's actually a camshaft driven fuel pump so I hear things on my car I'm sure I mean, it's minimal.

I hear it at first, when you first hear it, you get scared, but then you realize it's just the engine characteristic and it didn't bother me, yeah, no lights or other problems. I probably wouldn't even worry about that, right, I agree, here's one from Dale Miller, he's a new viewer on the channel, welcome, I really appreciate it. I love seeing you in shock. I found the channel in August, right after placing my order. the C8. I find the channel very helpful and use some of your suggestions to update my order. Congratulations, this order was accepted in the November order cycle so I know that like mine you don't have your car yet so it will be Coming Soon, although that's nice, at least you've accepted the 3000 status, that it's good.

My question is about the paint protection film and ceramic coating. In fact, that was one of our top 22 videos from last year that we featured on Sunday with Conti. The question is about ppf and ceramic coating. I noticed you did both, Rick, in your car. Yes, I do. Do you remove the ppf?, apply the ceramic coating and then apply the ppf. I understand that it is difficult for ppf to adhere to the ceramic coating. That's right. You've got a Red Mist Coupe on the way that you're going to use as a daily driver and you're exactly anywhere and I'm going to redo all of this in my new spec that we haven't revealed yet when it arrives.

So wherever you go to do ppf, do that first. I would have the paint corrected. Do ppf first and then apply the ceramic coating to the rest of the car. They make a coating that you can put on top of the ppf to give it a good shine and it also protects that, but don't apply a ceramic coat and then apply ppf on top, that's a disaster, especially if you ever had to remove that number one, no it will be a good adhesion, it won't work well, so no. Don't do that so do the ppf first and then everything else do a ceramic coating that maybe goes on top of that sometimes they call it opticalte and some other things depending on the product you're using that will do again that. it looks really really nice on the car and that's exactly what you want oh yeah yeah okay buddy this will come from uh Jerry says I love Tech Tuesday.

I look forward to it every week. I watch every one of your videos and they are always informative entertaining Chuck is a classic thank you he says I have a 23. you love it don't you? I mean, you have what are they doing to him? ok sorry go ahead oh yeah he says I have a 23 C8 coupe. and I have a ticking noise coming from the engine behind my head when driving at low speeds and high RPM. Did we just have this? Yeah, okay, I have about 2,000 miles on the car. Some say it's a dreaded lifter pushrod problem if it was the dreaded lifter pushrod problem you would have a check engine light on the car it wouldn't work properly.

I was told not to worry, it's more than likely the high pressure fuel system for the direct injection. I don't have any smoke performance issues while driving. the car the car runs very well without any problems, without hesitation, without jerks, etc. I can also open the front with the remote control. Is this a program? You can't open it from the front. Yes, the drunk front or the keychain. You can't open it. It's a programming issue well I don't know if you did the update because now you have to press it once you leave it and then hold it down so you don't restart it again yeah yeah sometime in mid 2020 they did it guys like I. keep his keychain in the back of his pocket, sit on it without realizing it, you would open it or people had things there and accidentally open it while driving and turning, so yes, you push it, it still says twice. on his key fob, but press it once, release it, and then hold it again for three seconds and the front trunk will open.

Try to make that happen. Oh, we understand that question. A lot of things happen all the time. Good when? They redid the updated programming. I had all my clients come back. Now you made the program. My forehead does not open. What are you doing? Well, you have to press it and then press it again and hold it now. I'm glad I asked the question because no. only you will benefit from that this week. I appreciate you continuing to send those questions about how to use things in the car, whatever the case may be, it's Tech Tuesday as many Tuesdays as we can with Chuck and I and when we get everything done. the questions we like to show some hot cars these are your beautiful

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