I have a C5, but I don't really DD it. I have a truck and the Wifes car I drive more often (groceries/work). I had an issue with the Gas Pedal Sensor but that was it. But, Ive only had it a little over a year. Paid $12,800 in Illinois 97/40k Miles. FWIW

I have not drove it in the snow (don't plan on it) and the rain only once or twice when Ive been caught in it. Didn't have any issues in the rain though.

FMX might be a good guy to PM on these as well.

Keep that battery on a tender don't want your steeling column to lock up on you driving.

Or you can do the steering column lock bypass and be done with it.


The C5 platform is great. They are getting older now and the complex electrical system required to do everything a c5 does can give you problems. The electrical was engineered in the mid 90's. Keep that in mind and you'll be fine. They can display pcm, bcm, tcs, radio, and other codes on the DIC. Everything from communication errors to blown light bulbs will set a code you can read from there without a scanner. Mine makes a bit over 800whp and I could still drive it daily here in SC if I wanted to.

Get on corvetteforum and start reading the C5 section. In a week you can know everything one could expect to go wrong.

Thanks for the info! I'll look into the steering column lock bypass when I get it. Just joined the forum so I'll start my research there.

i had no problems except the factory radiator split on me after i turned mine way up.

The C5 has pretty shitty speakers. You won't be turning it up much and it'll sound like hardcore with all the popping, spitting, and banging.

i was talkin after the heads cam intake and all the other goods. I didnt care to much for the nav head unit in my c6 if he cares about speakers

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Do you even read at times bruh?

he quoted my quote? i said nothing of a radio to begin with so i'm not sure whats going on here.

he failed at quoting. fmx quote is at the bottom