Now We Know Why There So Many C8's In A Michigan Parking Lot, Covered Up

This is an update from last week's post.

Six weeks ago we learned that Chevrolet had started shipping Corvettes to Michigan for unknown update/repairs. More recently, photos of the parking lot where those Corvettes are stored showed at least 100 new vehicles parked in a fenced lot in Pontiac, Michigan.

There's been a lot of speculation as to why those cars were sent to Michigan, and every time one of those owners was able to talk to GM about the issue, the representative would refuse to confirm. Now there's been a change as at least two of those owners with cars parked in "Pontiac Purgatory" are now saying the issue all along has been the Dual Clutch Transmissions for the Stingray.

Those two owners confirmed that important news today in that gigantic thread on the subject at the MidEngineCorvetteForum.com. The owners are both saying that representatives from GM's "Executive Resolution Board" have confirmed that their Corvettes were sent to Michigan due to a transmission problem. One of those owners writes that his car has finally moved inside the Penske Service Center for the repair just today.

We still don't know if they are repairing or replacing the DCTs, but the reason for sending the cars to Michigan is that there was simply no room at the Corvette Assembly plant for that many cars to be fixed.

The fact that it is a DCT issue also explains why the cars up in Michigan were all Stingrays, which have their own unique transmission. Those transmissions for the Stingrays were updated for the 2024 model year and they feature a redesign with one of the benefits being that that it no longer necessitates the adding of two quarts of transmission fluid for those taking their cars to the track.

We also learned today that another two of the Pontiac Purgatory Corvettes have been released from the Penske shop and are now on the way back to the National Corvette Museum where they will finally be delivered to their new owners nearly three months after they rolled off the assembly line.

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Source: Keith Cornett - Corvette Blogger

Posted 12/8/23