Corvette Recall

[Nicholas L.]

http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/30/autos/GM_Corvette_recall.cnnw/index.htm

[Pat M.]

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Wow. I thought C6s were absolutely perfect, unlike their poor-quality-control predecessors.

[Lynn H.]

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Seems I remember hearing about this roof panel issue awhile back. I do not have one of these later models, but the question I have is:
How will this effect judging of these models, 25 years from now, if they do not retain their original roof panel??
I bet they won't give you the replacement, and allow you to keep the original.
Lynn

[Terry M.]

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There is already wording in The Judging Reference Manual to cover this. Although usually safety recalls do not involve such a significant part of the car (1969 seat belt recall comes to mind). The answer is: minor deduct for the parts replaced under the recall. Now all we have to do is determine what "minor recall" means. We have consumed a fair amount of hops without exactly determining that in the past, and I don't think the future will shed much new light on it.

The NTL at the time these car are judges will have input into that. We should all live so long.

[George C.]

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Wow. I thought C6s were absolutely perfect, unlike their poor-quality-control predecessors.

Never had a problem with my C5. Roof panel is solid compared to a C6.

Just a tip to all early C6 owners, buy a junk panel (turn that one in at dealer) and keep your original.

[Harry S.]

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Which panel? The painted one or the transparent one or both?

[Pat M.]

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Never had a problem with my C5.

I've never had ANY significant problem with my C4, and that was my sarcastic point.

[Rich G.]

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The flying roof option was originally available only on 2005/6 cars and was allegedly fixed during the 2006 MY. The story back then was that GM was using a new adhesive that saved 12 cents per car. (12 cents is an exageration, but you get the point.)

Since 22,000 cars is nowhere near the total production of coupes and Z06's for the years quoted there must be something that only affects a portion of production.

I have a 2007 Z06, and I don't think I'm going to allow any dealer to replace the roof panel (until is shows evidence of leaving). Evidence of leaving is defined as it is laying on the ground.

Rich

[Harry S.]

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Rich, I like your logic!

[Tom H.]

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Which panel? The painted one or the transparent one or both?

The issue is with the painted panel only.

[Thomas H.]

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Picture of the roof from my 05.



This is the roof that was on the car when I bought it back in June. Took it to the dealer to be replaced back in October. They told me they couldn't do it since my car was originally delivered with a transparent roof, which I knew, but I figured I'd give it a shot anyway. The original owner must have changed over to the solid roof or possibly the dealer / wholesaler / auction house that had the car before I did make the swap.

The newer solid tops are made of a white composite material that can be seen by pulling back the headliner a bit. The tops involved in the recall are all black under the headliner.

I was able to locate a new transparent top for a very reasonable price. So I now have the correct top for future judging........

Tom

[Walter G.]

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My '05 was part of the initial recall campaign several years ago and the 'fix' was a foam adhesive injection to better adhere the top to the frame. Mine was one of many where this didn't work as the foam expanded/blew out the edges and wrecked the headliner in the process. A replacement top and headliner was ordered and within a week or so everything was fixed. Being black, color match was not an issue for my replacement roof, but there have been horror stories about poor color matches on most of the metallic colors, where blending into the 'halo' or even the rear quarters was required to achieve a correct match. The C6 forum was pretty quiet last year on this topic, so it seemed the problems had all been resolved. I suppose the originality of these tops will come into play 15 or so years from now; there will likely be very few 'originals'-only those that never dealt with the recall. The replacement tops are (noticeably) several pounds heavier than the OEM ones.

[Tom H.]

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A couple weeks ago I traded in a 2006 coupe with two tops. The painted panel was in the back and the glass roof was in the car. Went to pull the painted panel out to photograph luggage area and the whole skin just fell off ! I've had several customers who have had seperation and even a few blow off's, but this is the first one that actually fell off in my hands.

As you examine the faulty top, it is amazing anyone ever thought that they would stay together.

[John D.]

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Wall Street Journal, Dec 30th issue, Corporate News page had write up on the 22,000 recall and also nice photo of a C6 with pretty blond driving it sans roof.
Covers 2005 to 2007 with removable roofs including Z06 models. Article didn't say which roof was recalled although I read it in another post here.
If it was my car I think I would probably get the original painted roof glued back together by bubba rather than get a new one with a different shade of paint don't you think.