C5 AC Blower Motor Noise

Blower was making a rattling sound and increased when making a left turn. Problem: The drain for the AC evaporator was plugged. Motor and resistor were soaked with standing water in the enclosure.. Dried them out and unplugged the hole. Reinstalled and am running air only (no AC) until all the moisture has evaporated from the components. So far so good. The motor is about $250 new and the resistor about the same.

Moral: Always look under your car on hot days and make sure there is a little AC puddle!

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Blue C5
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Bob I

Moral: Just pass on buying a GM car. What an engineering nightmare. If GM is goint to hide that thing where they do, they better make sure it does not clog. Good pix though.

Vito

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Uncle_vito

I'm sure you will be happy to know then that GM fixed this on the C6. On the C6 the A/C drain empties onto the exhaust pipe. When you stop the car on a hot day you should hear a nice sizzling sound for a while. And, unless it is really humid, you no longer get a puddle on the floor.

On second thought, since you hate everything GM and would never think of changing that opinion,... never mind.

On or about Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:07:36 -0700, "Uncle_vito" wrote or did cause to be written:

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Dale

Sorry, I used to be a dedicated GM owner. Chevy's, Pontiacs, etc. Then I relized they were selling junk and GM didn't care.

I noticed that some Japanese cars never had any problems.

I currently own a 64 Vette and recently sold my 69 L71. Those cars were gorgeous and state of the art at the time. Corvettes built now are just 'also rans' or 'best performance for the buck'. In short, compromises.

Since when are Americans about compromises.

A new Vette isn't for me. Depreciation is insane and if you look at the typical Vette driver, they are old farts. I will have to get a little older to look normal in one.

GM has really blown it.

Vito

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Uncle_vito

Score one for another blind follower of Toyota propaganda.

"The government has said unintended acceleration in Toyotas may have been involved in the deaths of 93 people over the past decade. The agency has received about 3,000 complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyotas."

(Quote taken from an article your posts pointed to.)

The same accelerator activation has been used on the C5 & C6 for 13 years and GM is not recalling them as far as I know.

On 10/3/2009 you Said, "I had a 69 427-435 (tri power manifold) a few years ago.", how is that recent?

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Dad

Dad. You are one of the few intelligent posters on this newgroup.

That sudden accel in a toytoa is a bunch of media hype. They are now finding out that folks had their foot on the gas rather than the brake. The media is only figuring that out now. How come all sudden acceleration cases were accompanied by brakes that didn't work?? These idiots had gotten Nasa engineers to look into this.

A computer malfunction is a malfunction. Seems you would have a lot of broken down cars rather than sudden acceleration.

Just like the Apple iphone, AAPL could put the word iphone on the side of a brick and sell it. GM knows they can put Corvette on the side of most anything and sell it also. What did GM do with Cadillac? Put the name on wonders like the Cimrron and that Caddy that zigs.

The 2008 C6 and newer seems to be a nice car from what my club members say. Many of the rattles are gone.

When I say recent with my 69, I was implying that I didn't own it back in the 60's and 70's. Like folks who say 'I had a 65 Mustang when I was 16. Should have never sold that car". I like classic corvettes because back when they were new, they were the sports car to buy. Not too sure any more. Today, BMW, Mercedes, Aston Martin come to mind. Now I know you will say that those cars cost much more than the Corvette. There is that compromise coming out again. In the 60's there was no compromise. Corvette was the best, period.

Vito

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Uncle_vito

I have no doubt some did have their foot on the gas but then why in 13 years has there be no outrage on the same system used on the C5 and C6 Corvette? Could it just be that there is no computer programming problem that was done by GM and there was with the Toyoda?

A bad program is not a malfunction.

I'm sorry, what rattles are you referring to, mine has had none and it is the dreaded first year of production. That's another myth from by gone days that they were destined to be lemons.

I'm not sure what you said there but, in the sixties and seventies Corvettes were not the best by a long shot. The new '63 I had was junk the day it rolled off the assembly line, I say rolled because I even doubt it could do it under it's own power. By the way I still do have a '65 Mustang.

You really need to get out more your stubbornness is allowing you to miss some fun things. Go drive a new Corvette and let me know if you even give a crap what anyone thinks of the car as your fun factor will out weigh others opinions.

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Dad

GM has 'sudden accel' problems too. It is becuase GM has so many divisions that the press is not able to reach critical mass on the story.

Toyota essentially only makes Toyota and they are held ransom to any idiot that buys the marque and cannot tell the gas from the brake.

See Audi in the 80s

All cars were built like crap in the 50s and 70s. Only thing was that was the best you could get at the time.

I used to pump gas at a gas station from 70-73. Corvettes were gorgeous. So were Cads (500 cu inc), Gran Prixs, AMX's, Mustangs, you know the story. Jap cars back then were tin cans. Things sure have changed.

I keep trying to get myself to get a Vette. Sorry, but the most I have ever spent on a car is $45,000 for my Wife's BMW and that killed my savings account big time. Car is only worth about $10k now. Talk about a lousy investment.

I will look for a clean 2008 Vette and try to get it for $30k or less.

Vito

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Uncle_vito

You and the buying public remain gullible, there is nothing magic about the 2008 Corvette. There are about three things different than the early years of the C6, LS3, 6 speed paddle shift and NPP exhaust. Unless you're an up tight Corvette snob they have little to do with the C6 and the way it drives and handles. Sort of like the V8 emblem with or without flags used to be on the early sixties, a few extra ponies for bragging rights. Oh yeah, it has a neat fob, whoopeee.

How could I forget the Ipod socket so you can drive completely out of touch with what you're in the car for in the first place, to talk on the phone. There always seems to be someone that has to blow their horn at you just because you're on the phone and it takes away you attention you need to be paying to what just came up on your laptop and/or the navigation system. I hate it when you have to pull off the road just to send a FAX.

I put a number of miles on a C2, C3, C4, and the C6 this month so far in 3 different states and can't beat the pleasure of driving the C6. I'd order a new C7 today if they ever decide to make one. Sadly the Corvette no longer enjoys as much leading edge technology as it has in the past and will only get what will keep the sales number running through the next generation. This new hog they put out to squeeze a few more sales dollars out of the C6 is gaudy, I'll never have a GS for that reason. Sort of like putting lipstick on a pig.

Here you go, if you're a car buyer at all move on up to a Corvette.

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Dad

Go for the second one. It has a manual.

AJM '93 40th Anniversary coupe, 6 sp (both tops)

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CardsFan

That's one of the reasons I've been looking for a C4, to get an automatic transmission. No more sticks for me, 5 of the 6 cars I drive are sticks and my truck is an automatic. At my age the mother clutching shifting is sometimes painful, especially in stop and go traffic jams.

Some of the C4 owners are so proud of their car I may have to get a C5 with and auto. My goal is to own all generation again but this time all at the same time, the C1 may be my last hurrah.

Vito will never own a C6 or even a C5, he's mostly hot air. ;-)) There has been a C6 within 40 miles of me for $30,000 that has 5977 miles on it that I'd own if it was not something I already have, even smells better than new.

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Dad

Supposedly eight different people including her father tried to teach my wife to drive a car with a manual tranny, and it never worked. I never tried, and that's probably for the best. When I decided to buy a car to have fun with, it was going to have to have a clutch, and that has the added benefit of keeping her from trying to get in the driver's seat. I told her we could buy the sister car, a 93 ruby red roadster (with an auto), but so far she'd rather spend that money on other stuff, I guess. It would be kind of cool to have one of each.

AJM '93 40th Anniversary coupe, 6 speed (both tops)

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CardsFan

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