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| For all concerned just pu my VY 2008 coupe 4lt, Z51, NPP Auto six speed. Car is loaded. It is just a beautiful, refined machine. GM has done their best to close the door on some of the prior negatives. The interior is just beautiful, fit and finish superb...Boy we have come a long way and it appears we will continue to do so..If you are in the market go and treat yourself....Joe | |
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Cold weather folks - how do you store your car for 6 months or so? I've leaving the US for 1/2 of the year and would like to raise my '07 C6 from the ground so the tires aren't damaged. Is it possible to raise the car by jacking-up each wheel and placing cinder bricks or something similar underneath the chassis? Are there particular locations where the weight can be handled with damaging the car? Or should I just let the car stand on its tires for the whole 1/2 year? Also, anything else to do other than disconnect the battery? Any special trick due to the FOB feature? thanks much!
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Replying to: toquinho (Feb 05, 2008 10:29 pm) The car can also be supported on the side rails. There is an area where the body color plastic does not wrap under the car, jack stands can be placed there. Do not place jacks or stands on the wrapped around plastic, the plastic will break, and this is a very expensive repair. The battery should not be allowed to freeze. If you pull it out and place in on a concrete floor, it will discharge in 6 months. You can buy trickle charger that you can leave connected all the time to the battery. This is possibly the best thing to do. Removing a cable should be done even if there is a trickle charger used. When you hook the battey back up, the windows must be re-indexed. Read your manual for this. Add fuel stabilizer to the gas tank and run the motor for a couple minutes before the final shutdown. Change the oil just before shutting it down. I've never actually done this, so I really don't know what works. The above is just some of the things I've seen discussed. |
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to pump up the tires to their MAX load capacity so they don't flatten out. You could always lend the car to me and I'll make sure it gets driven, washed, & driven some more:) 
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Replying to: pvr (Oct 10, 2005 10:37 am) I have a 2007 C6 with Z51 pkg and 6 speed manual. I'm having two non-consistent problems, one sounds a little like your gear/bearing noise. 1) When I first start-up the car, sometimes I hear a tapping noise and think it might be the lifters. 2) After backing up, I shift into first and after a few hundred feet, I sometimes get a very loud metal-on-metal grinding noise. It kind of sounds and feels like a bicycle chain slipping and clanking against a metal shield. The noise lasts for a few seconds, it also feels like the car hesitates and then catches and moves forward. This doesn't always happen. Naturally I cannot duplicate these problems when the car is at the dealers! BillMLB
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Replying to: billmlb (Apr 28, 2008 9:54 am) The second one sounds like the ABS system initializing.
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Replying to: fedlawman (Apr 28, 2008 12:54 pm)
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Replying to: coupedncal (Apr 28, 2008 1:07 pm) I don't drive mine very often, and get lifter noise for a couple of seconds after startup. And I don't worry about it.
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Replying to: bolivar (Apr 29, 2008 7:00 pm) Thanks for taking the time to reply! I don't drive my car very often either and you may be right! BillMLB |
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My '07 C6 6sp auto coupe now has 3500 miles on the odo. Recently I have noticed a "grinding" noise coming from somewhere in the rear while slowly turning in either direction. This only happens when I first start driving the car and the engine oil, etc. is still cold. Once I drive for 10 miles or so, the noise goes away. I seem to remember reading about some similar posts describing similar noises, but I can't find them at the moment. I haven't taken it to the dealer yet. I plan to address it with them at the time of the first oil change later this summer, unless this is a problem that requires more immediate attention. Does this sound like a problem developing within the rear differential ? Is there a TSB describing such a noise ? What's the fix ?
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