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Old 04-22-06, 09:51 AM
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Default Non removable C6 Z06 roof flys off(recall issued, 30,000 cars)

Fell off at about 60mph.









http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1369957
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Old 04-22-06, 09:55 AM
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Impressive build quality

GM can get sued if this happens & it flew off & hurt /kill somebody . . .
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No matter how beautiful, powerful, sexy, valuable it is... it's still a Chevy.
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only thing good outa this car is the engine and how it can still make decent mpg
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The engine isnt all that great either, its a 7.0 pushrod.
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I STILL love the C6.

Its funny how contrasting these threads can be. Once something bad happens, everyone jumps on the band wagon with the negative comments.
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Originally Posted by bizzy928
I STILL love the C6.

Its funny how contrasting these threads can be. Once something bad happens, everyone jumps on the band wagon with the negative comments.
I love the C6 as well. I think it's probably the best Chevy made within the past 20 at least. I'd probably consider buying one. However, this is a Lexus forum, who excells in fit and finish, and overall quality. Chevy is known for issues with that, therefore it's not surprising.
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Thats what I call a brown trouser moment
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Good engine? Not since Chevy pulled their DOHC ZR1 engine has the corvette engine been anything special.
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Originally Posted by genearch
Exactly... as far as we know, this was a one time situation, as opposed to another manufacturer with a 57,000 time occurrence.

Stuff happens, let things shake out before condemning the car.
Ironically , only the one time bad thing is what people talk about .
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Originally Posted by genearch
Exactly... as far as we know, this was a one time situation, as opposed to another manufacturer with a 57,000 time occurrence.
What occurrence ?? Nothing happened with those 57,000 cars
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thats what happens when you break the sound barrier with a Z06
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I doubt more than 1000 C6 Z06's have been sold
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Originally Posted by genearch
Are you sure of that? The simple fact is that the seatbelts failed.. a major safety issue.
seatbelts got stuck inside the latch its not like they disconnected randomly. Airbag recall affected 133 cars and it wasnt even all lexus spread into toyota also
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Originally Posted by genearch
Let's see.. IS alone:

Airbag recall
Seatbelt recall
Fuel in oil (stalling cars)

Like I said.. stuff happens. The Corvette incident was, as far as we can tell, a one time occurrence. IS owners have been through much worse.
Toyota/Lexus recall those cars if they got a few complaints. They will do some investigation on those complaints and gathering information, then step ahead and called it a recall. They're concerned about customers and not try to hide anything.

They got a lot of recall that some of them( as a tech) is so non-sense, but good enough for the competitor manufacturers to use it against Toyota/Lexus.

I remember in 1998 Lexus got a recall on the starters on 1995-1997 LS400 and SC400, because they got 3 incidents that the starter contact was found bad and it may cause fire( luckily it never happened). Lexus recalled almost 200,000 vehicles just for a few complaint they got...

As a tech I got a lot of friends that work for another auto manufacturer and those guys see worse than the seat belt recall. But as I asked them about the recall and what the maunfacturer will do to fix the problem, they said " Heck No" ...

Why don't we get back on topic? Uhhh, I think this thread is about the roof flying off a vette, but for some reason it turned out to be the Lexus recalls.
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