CORVETTE TECH TUESDAY CAN GM DENY A WARRANTY CLAIM WHAT'S GOODWILL

no, I'm actually recording an outtake so people can actually see that I was yelled at, I really got it. I tried so hard to do a

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nical Tuesday but it wasn't going to happen you guys think this is easy yeah actually I'm putting that in that little diddy. there before and it's a good thing I wasn't recording even before, yeah I did. They yelled at me to get out of the way and I said, well I just need to do a quick Tech Tuesday, not today, that's

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he said, not today. Ain has time. I got to work, get out of the way, so that's all we can do to have a

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nical Tuesday, so thank you really, yeah, and thank you all for tuning in.

I had a lot more to read, but I didn't want to get yelled at. again, so let's do a few each and call it a day and share some cool cars. I have some great segments I filmed last weekend at Paragon. They keep asking when Chuck is coming, you know, I said. Once we should take it out of the store and put them on the couch, that's as far as we can get them. I can't take it to the car for 10 hours. No, you can take me to the fish in the lake. I'll tell you

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, although you know what surprised me driving to Iowa and Cory was right, he said it's in the middle of nowhere, just, you know, 10 hours of a boring drive, but I really enjoyed it, the roads were pristine and it was It's not like we were going down those concrete strips going B boom B boom B smooth man and I tested my new radar detector just a little and I put the cruise control on a hundo and it was like you say like Donkey Call had done it .

What a great moment, man, they don't have one of those Holding Ponds in each of them, oh, big dumb segments coming from Paragon, uh, when are we going to have time to edit and broadcast that, oh my God, we have. an upcoming guest appearance by paragon actually one of the questions will be regarding one of the segments i filmed talking about brake pads which will appear here in just a second on tech

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tonight thanks for joining us wow yeah brake fluid It is boiling because the The brake fluid that is in these from the factory is the same that is in a Blazer, a Trampa or a Malibu.

You have to improve your brake fluid. And no questions were asked. Everyone is gathered because they are doing a Dino Run of a Z6. Rob's Z6 check this out. Everyone is investigating. Yeah, big kids, I love it, it's cute and I have short gears a little bit here just again to keep it nice, I know it's under control, but yeah, beautiful, who's going to go first? I go first, you go first, you're okay, we have your S A, congratulations. Dude, we've got England and we've got I was saying something, I don't know what I said, oh my God, fire Pat, it's official, he's really there, they're really going to take him home, let's rub that little week in, yeah, it's. the floating center cap where is the floating center cap isn't here yet, but here are some of the things it's going through in testing when you bring in a new product, go ahead and tell the F that you were telling me before, like this that the floating center cap Fiasco I would say I'm very happy to have shared that with our customers and mutual viewers, but if I had to pick up my phone I could sit down and do this.

I asked you first. I asked you first. I said, Hey, this isn't out yet, are you sure? You want me to talk about it, and sure enough, you guys say, hey, that's cool, and so do I. I told him and even asked him. I told him that's what it is, but can I put it in? He says no, however, when we are what we find. it's the center cap i sent you the 70th anniversary cap is a one piece cap the normal one the carbon flash some of the other GM accessories are a two piece cap leading to a thicker material on the back later, so when I initially put the Rob's OEM One on it wasn't actually spinning, so most of the time a lot of the rotor upgrades that people are going to do are for a cosmetic reason.

Well, the factory rotor is just a big piece of metal and all that is. a fog part on the Corvette C8 in our opinion uh the Z6 is great because now you have carbon ceramics everyone has them and everything but your z51 doesn't have that option so a lot of times people look to replace the rotors for That's the reason, um, or if you drive with spirit, that's where we're going to come in, like EVC is very or similar to the driving disc where it's a slotted rotor and before you ask or you know me, they don't stay black.

I'm sitting here thinking about scheduling and I seriously don't know if we'll have a Tech Tuesday next week. I'll try, but probably not. I will be in Green Kentucky for my certified driver training. on the track and giving you some feedback, don't give me that tone, I know this, it's fine, that's what it is, but I thought it was the electric vehicle thing. Whoa, hey, I'm not working on them. not certified, let's talk more about that too. Coming soon in a special announcement from General Motors. Okay, let's continue with some questions. I have some good ones this week.

Thank you all for sending them. Alright, this one comes from Jay. hi Rick and Chuck, I just bought a 2022 Stingray with only 650 Mi for the original owner who paid out of pocket for the first oil change at 500 miles and why I don't know but that's okay my question is when do I take C8 services or anything I need to do now to transfer the

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no Jay there is no such thing as a transfer the

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transfers with the following the VIN of the vehicle so the warranty just goes with the vehicle yeah You usually check it, but even before you get the documentation, the service.

The rider will check that and see if it's under warranty, if it has an extended warranty, we actually have a question about that in a second too, so they look at all that stuff before it hits their bay and there's nothing that they need. No need to have cards like he said, just follow the event from the start of the vehicle being built? It's the 3 years 36, whichever comes first or the 5 years 60,000 for the powertrain in the factory warranty. Absolutely any other question on It or not, no, that was the only question I had. Okay, great, moving forward on this one and I got a fun video.

I will share it with this viewer soon. Make me laugh and let's do it. what he did and give him credit, anyway, the point is John Morehouse, says Rick, I have a C8 Z6 now and I waited a long time for it when I was closing the deal at the end of the n9, so to speak, in the office finance. signing the documents I asked to get the extended warranty like I always do, they said no extended warranty was offered for this car. I was surprised, I should have told him to keep the car. What kind of faith does GM have in this product?

Wait a minute. The guy should have emailed you to see if you bought this used on a new car. Yes, Chevrolet or Chevrolet subsidiaries offer extended warning packages. The ones I recommend will be the Ally main protection package or the Chevy protection plant now if you bought this. used and within that 6 month period someone traded it in or bought it or whatever, then yes, that warranty is locked like we've talked about before, so that could be why you couldn't get an extended warranty, but if that is not the case, so yes, that is available. You can email the guy on the screen.

He's our financial guy and he'll be happy to sell you an extended warranty package to keep you protected. So thanks for watching the channel and submitting. This comes from Bruce. He says our beautiful red torch z51 was delivered by you a week ago on Sunday and it's fantastic that we've put 330 Mi on it so far. We also totally agree with Rick on the dust issue. I would like to change them to ceramic pads. I have been looking for a set but no one has a set for the 20 24 listed, apparently Hawk Power Stop and a few others have not yet released the pad set for My question is is there any difference between the Z5 1 calipers from 2023 and 2024?

Can I order a set of 23 and expect them to fit my 24 recommendations? I don't know, that would be a question for the parts guy I know. They occasionally tweak things here and there to change them so they can't be interchanged, so I'm not sure if, yes, Gan will make discrete changes during the model year like we talked about a while ago. on the 24th, right when they added the front soft clo, they moved all kinds of schemes there and where they are, who knows, I mean, they just moved all over the place. However, I don't think they changed the clamps and I don't see why, uh, number one, you're opening a can of worms if you're changing those clamps while he's talking about disconnecting the battery, there's a lot involved and as soon as you introduce air in the system, that becomes a problem if not done correctly, we're actually going to talk about brake pads when I do my special with Paragon.

I'm going to go with Carbotech, they have brake pads that won't completely remove, but they will probably remove 80 to 90% of that breakage dust that It's only if you drive the car, which I encourage you to do, it's like looking this brake dust and there's a big time difference between the non-z 51 and the z51 so we'll talk about that special as soon as we can. For you guys, stay tuned to the channel, but as for changing the calipers, I want to open a can of worms, another thing you can do is coat the wheel with ceramic, yeah, well, I needed to do that and I haven't.

I've already done it that way, when brake dust builds up you can just take an h and spray it on so yeah great tip yeah I know I've been saying to do that for a year and I still haven't done it , You know? all the free time I have oh right, here's Frank from Wisconsin, he says hello Rick and Chuck, I have an aftermarket, oh boy, you've seen this many times. I have a Boret attack replacement exhaust system. I replaced it three times, you've done that a couple of times to some guys, it makes a weird noise when it goes into V4 mode, they have a million mile warranty, huh, but they said they won't replace it again, they can.

Either refund my money or return the original exhaust. My question is: I want to keep the Boret after the market exhaust and I just want to know what the problem is with the valve. Have you seen a similar problem? I am willing to pay. for the repair to keep this exhaust sounding great, the only issue I saw wasn't necessarily the noise mine was causing, the check engine light because the mechanical cylinder deactivation valve was actually getting stuck in the pipe , well, what was causing a problem, well once. I replaced it, he found out and the customer hasn't come back with it so who knows, maybe it got stuck, maybe it was causing a noise, yeah you can't, he can't hear anything, okay this one comes from Peter .

Greetings Rick and Chuck look forward to every week of Tex Tuesday. What a great service you and Chuck provided to the Corvette community. I'm not willing to ask another question about transmission fluid, but I don't think it's been discussed previously. Well, I have a 2021 HTC, which is due for a 3 year fluid flush this summer and I estimate I'll have about 6,000 miles on it by then. I changed the DCT filter last year so I'll just flush the fluid and wait. until I have 7500k to replace the DTC, what would you recommend? Good question sounds like you are on the right track, yes if you don't get the second HT filter or the second DCT you know right before 7500k but yeah. due to the three year fluid exchange I would just do the swap yeah yeah and that's what 3 years or 40,000 Mi is under normal driving conditions this information is also in the back of the owner's manual guys so we are not manufacturing those things. above, we're just following the B and the ball that Chevrolet has implemented for all of us, yes, because we discussed it before when you replace that DCT filter even though you had the FL, if you just do the flush and then come back, say a month or two later to have the DCT you're only going to lose six or S ounces, which will be recovered, so here's one from Barry that says Rick.

I have a PC Corvette HT 24 that is a hardtop convertible that I have to get. You're okay with that Corvette lingo which, by the way, you're doing pretty well. Yes, I didn't order the new engine appearance package for the convertibles with a clear engine bay cover and red engine cover. Can you ask the dealer for it? after the fact and install it and I just want to apologize to Chevrolet when they revealed this last year at The Bash. I chased them and chased them and just joked about it, said it was a waste of time and money so what they presented in the bash, they have reviewed it, it really looks good, now a bigger window, kind of emulates now what Paragon is doing with the carbon fiber one I have in my car.

Now I'll show you that as soon as we get a chance to give you an update on my car but I really like the cover so yes you can get it later but it will cost you more money since anything you order on the car is cheaper when you order thecar for production. Get it later, it comes through a completely different parts entity so it will cost you more money. I have some part numbers for you if you are looking for the actual engine cover for Stingray and here are the silver and red part numbers. just the engine cover because it's two parts when for the clear cover you don't get the engine cover and that's the idea is to see those things or you can do something custom like I did with mine and I did a quick blue To pause for one second, I had a blank space in the part number for my ZO6.

Chuck looks like, yeah, where's that part number? Well here's a picture if because the Z6 has two intakes and if you have to order them in red, look at this image and everything highlighted in green, you won't necessarily need it, but all of that comes in this kit when you order the intakes for a Z06. convertible and I guess some of the things you know can break or break or can't be reused again. No, you're not going to reuse throttle bodies and things like that, that's a big deal if you do. on a Z6 convertible and if you put it there just a clear engine cover, well you're just going to see a black engine cover so it's nice to have something coated but it's certainly a lot more complicated because of what the 55 flat is.

The airplane crank is if you are looking for the clear engine bay cover it is the same part number as for the Z6 and Stingray convertibles here is that part number right now contact your local Chevy parts counter they tell you how did he get this. stuff because it took us about 20 minutes to find it for you, but that way you can add it after the fact and here's the cool thing: you can upgrade it from the top convertibles of the 2020 car, plus there have been no changes in that regard, so put it in the car, show your engine area and remember too.

I wish we had something nearby to put the car into service mode, so when you go to car shows and you want to keep recharging, you just want to cover the tondo, you press the lock button twice and then you press that button on your key fob where The convertible top says it is lowering, just press to open just the tandle cover to show the engine bay area. It's funny, follow this question Let's go with it Jim, we didn't plan it, so it's okay, it's tagged as confused, it says March 6, 2024 with 1,319 Mi. I went to the dealer because I noticed my engine appearance cover is not clear, it has a cloudy and streaky appearance, the dealer could see the problem. and asked for a replacement, it's fine.

I was told in writing on my copy of the service order that this is a one-time

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adjustment. I paid $995 for this option if I knew it was susceptible to the cloud. I wouldn't have asked for it. The lower cover was installed. at the bowling green plant checking that the cover apparently is not part of the PDI process since it clouds up once if it clouds up again it can be replaced under warranty not because of what the dealer said there well it's not the dealer said it is GM That said, I apologize, okay, yeah, well, on a lot of these trim things, like steering wheels and door panels and seat covers, anything like that.

GM just won't let us replace it, there's a whole process we have to go through, we have to take a picture, we have to send it to them, they check it, they look at it and it's fine, one we will replace it once, just once under their three-year warranty under their three year warranty and let me just throw this out this is going to cause controversy I was just thinking about that when you were. I don't know why I didn't think of it before. You say to change the factory cover before the transparent cover. Well, you don't receive it when you place the order. that and I think you should get it so you have the opportunity to swap them just by throwing them and it's cool for me to swap yeah I know people will go you're right damn I want my cover and I think you should have it and I like the flexibility I can put on mine for tracking because the aftermarket covers the clear covers, the Paragon stuff, the full clear covers are the ones with carbon fiber and you don't want to track them with those. on those are uh show it and go only if you're okay so yeah so I don't know just think about it some people are going to make some phone calls to Chevy and whatever but you know where. it's the original engine conversion, you know you should have bought it, I mean you're paying an extra $1,000 for it, they'll say, oh well the price is offset because no, you're not giving me my coverage, you're not getting it. but I mean, I think we should have gotten it, don't you like that the engine covers, the intake covers, yeah, they weren't originally part of the PDI and I had to take it off and put the original colored cover back on. and you got the original cover back, since they're doing it at the factory, now you only get the P color, the color and you know, the funny thing is that they didn't reduce the price of that cover, so it's still the same price. just putting it yeah, it's like I was going to talk about this Thursday when we do a very short video about the restrictions and what's happening with the Corvette orders for 20124 and how quickly it's closing and I was thinking about this the other day too and I don't know why I didn't mention it to you guys, it's just another thing to complain about, but it still makes sense.

I'm always thinking about all the avenues of this car that you know behind the scenes and in front of you. guys, in 2023 they made more than double the production of Corvette Stingrays and z6 than they did in 2022, how come I didn't get at least double my allocation? I got the same cars if not less, how is that possible? Where do these cars go well? It's just that there's more I want to say that's all I'm going to say because nothing good is going to come if I continue with this I'm just a mom always say if you have something good say shut up okay, close it up Okay, go, finish, okay, we are here now with your beautiful journey, yes, it is a great way to close.

See you if I know then or what I know now. I wouldn't have said what I said. I took the long way. I thought that Sometimes it would be better to be alone, what's right is wrong, instead, because I was too young and I didn't understand that you I can't wait, look, I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait . I can't wait I can't wait Hindsight is bleeding oh and your heart is bleeding and all you can see is red until you find out it's inside the other forgive and do if I know what I know now I wouldn't, I said what I said I took the long road, but I'll be better sometimes what's right is wrong because I was too young and I didn't understand that you're the one and I can't wait to see you again, oh I can.

No wait, I can't wait, I can't because I was too young and I didn't understand that it's you. I can not wait to see you again. I can't wait, I can't wait. I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait to see you again