2006 Corvette with dead battery?

[Clem Z.]

Re: 2006 Corvette with dead battery?

Clem, Mine was an early Precision Red car like yours. I read and printed the TSB's about the problem. I even talked to Wil Cooksey about my ongoing problems. I took the car to 5 different dealerships. They replaced all the computers after trying to reflash per the TSB. Then I had the fuel sender problems, which they tried to fix 4 times. Clutch issues, flying roofs and on and on. I won't own another C6.

i found the fix on the fuel gauges is never try and add any more fuel once the gasoline pump shuts off because anymore causes the slider on the card to go up into a unused area of the contact surface and causes the problem. i learned this on my early C-5s and after i stopped trying to top off the tank i have had no more fuel gauge problems. also on the battery problems i set my DIC not to lock the doors unless i push the button. i had a friend whose battery was always going down and till i set his DIC to blow the horn when he locked and unlocked the doors. he did not know that the car in the garage under his kitchen where he kept the fob was going thru the lock and unlock routine every time he walked across the floor in the kitchen and the fob vibrated. he found this out because now the horn would blow.

[Phil D.]

Re: 2006 Corvette with dead battery?

walmart sells a schumacher model #1562A for less than $20 that works great to float charge the battery. i have used one on my corvettes. no need to spend $40 for a battery tender.

I don't know about the Shumacher brand, but I've been through a whole bunch of warranty replacements with the Sears Diehard brand which appears very similar. I only have one Sears unit left and its a very old one that weighs as much as a brick of the same size. They don't make them like that anymore. The rest of mine I have replaced with the Battery Tenders a couple years ago and they seem pretty good, or at least well worth the price difference. When one of the modern Sears units started making noise the last time I got scared of leaving my cars plugged in while unattended and took two units back to Sears, told them I was fed up with warranty exchanges and just to give me my money back. Went to Pep Boys and bought the Battery Tenders.

[Bruce B.]

Re: 2006 Corvette with dead battery?

I bought 6 float chatgers from Harbor Freight a few years ago for $4.95 each and they work fine.
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