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2023 Chevy Corvette Z06 starts up after just 52 miles


As exciting as the wider body and refined aerodynamics of the new generation Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is, the 5.5-liter LT6 V-8 flat engine placed behind the driver is the star of the show. Unfortunately for the Z06’s new owner, Marco Garcia, the sports car-derived engine in his Corvette Z06 broke down after just 52 miles on the original delivery route.

Garcia purchased the black-red Corvette Z06 1LZ on December 23 from Covina Hills Chevrolet in Covina, California, in his words. videos on YouTube. The on-demand sports car has a list price of $113,975, but paperwork and dealer fees brought the final sale price up to $182,457.38. Garcia already owns two Stingrays at this point and he came to buy the Z06 in modified C8. Once the purchase was complete, one of the salespeople at the dealership offered to follow Garcia back to his construction yard with the aforementioned Stingray. Garcia accepted the offer and agreed to return the seller to the dealer after the exchange.

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After dropping the Stingray into the yard, the salesman hopped on the Z06 to return to the dealership a relatively short distance. Garcia noted in her follow-up video that the two enjoyed a few gentle tugs while riding but didn’t push the car too hard. Garcia further noted that he is already quite familiar with the process of breaking into the C8 platform due to his previous ownership experience. As soon as he took the salesman back to the dealership, things went awry.

Garcia noticed the engine lost power and decided to stop the car on the highway to investigate. The check engine light and some aggressive rattling noises accompany the problem, says Garcia, starting with just 52 miles on the odometer. After walking into town to charge his phone, Garcia was told by the dealer that he couldn’t tow the car back there that evening. Furthermore, OnStar had a hard time helping because they didn’t have the proper warranty information for such a new vehicle. Garcia was forced to tow the Z06 back to his construction site that night.

Things didn’t improve much the next day. OnStar sent a tow truck on the 24th, but the truck was not allowed to return the vehicle to the dealer. That created a new problem, seemingly requiring Garcia to spend hours re-visiting the OnStar service for support. Once the car actually arrived at the right dealer, lots of error codes started appearing in Garcia’s email inbox, sent through the OnStar service. The most notable of these problems listed are powertrain and engine failures, which you might expect based solely on the sounds found in the clip.

Garcia says he’s been in this situation and he’s not interested in continuing his Z06 ownership experience. Once the car is fixed, he plans to pass it on to the next owner.

“The dead Z06 will be up for sale soon,” Garcia said in a follow-up post. “I guess I’ll probably try to fix it and sell it to someone else. What a pity.”

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Since the moment the Z06 came out, General Motors has been adamant that the LT6 V-8 is a bomb-proof engine. The LT6.R V-8 been used by the Corvette Racing C8.R for a few years at this point, with the street bike having an almost identical front end design. That said, large displacement flat-faced V-8s are known to be complex, as has been emphasized previously by Ford’s Voodoo V-8 and its vibrating concern.

A GM spokesperson confirmed R&T that the company is aware of the incident involving this Z06 and is actively looking into the situation. As is customary with this type of failure, GM would probably tear down the engine to find the fault of this particular example.

Hopefully this particular LT6 is just a bad egg. As of now, this problematic example seems to be just a drop in the barrel as owners continue to bring their new Z06s home.

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