it’s not the first time a C8 Corvette has fallen off a lift. This marks at least the third documented case since the model’s introduction, with earlier incidents in 2020 and 2021 pointing to similar mistakes.
While these cases are rare relative to total production numbers, they reveal a pattern that shouldn’t exist at this stage. By now, lifting procedures for the C8 platform are well-established. These aren’t experimental vehicles anymore—they’re widely sold performance cars with known service requirements.
Yet the same type of error keeps happening.
While these cases are rare relative to total production numbers, they reveal a pattern that shouldn’t exist at this stage. By now, lifting procedures for the C8 platform are well-established. These aren’t experimental vehicles anymore—they’re widely sold performance cars with known service requirements.
Yet the same type of error keeps happening.
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/ownership/articles/dealer-drops-corvette-z06-during-133000493.html
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I've had two cars fall off the lift. One was my fault: I was putting a timing belt in a Honda V6 and moved the lift up and down repeatedly for access to top and bottom of the engine. I didn't realize that every time I brought the car down the rear tires touched the floor just enough to move the rear of the car a fraction of an inch sideways until on the last raise one rear hoist arm popped out and ripped up the side of the RR door. I installed a new door and paid for paint. The other was a new F-150 that the owner had paid to have undercoated. The "undercoating" was nothing but axle grease and when I raised the car for an oil change (first time it was off the ground since the application) it literally slid off the hoist straight backwards into my bay door. I paid for my overhead door repairs and offered to pay for the paint scratches on his tailgate, but when he told my insurance company he wanted a complete new tailgate they told him to suck eggs. (Rightfully, I might add.)
ReplyDeleteBeen happening for years. The local Ford Dealership dropped my parents RV years ago and then tried to payoff the damage as if it was a box stock van, Idjiots all of them.
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