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Originally Posted by CamaroSpike23
I completely agree with you. I am not someone who likes it when someone is pissing on my head and telling me its raining.
however, and I put this out as a cautionary warning to all of you, I strongly recommend NOT using launch control. yes its a cool feature to have, as is traction control and stability control. but if you are going to the track or are going to pound on the car, turn off stability control and traction control. granted torque management will still be there, but dont use launch control.
reason being is this: wheel hop is a bitch and a half. using launch control holds the rpms of the car at a certain point with your foot to the floor. the engine is constantly opening and closing the throttle, pulling and giving timing and fuel to hold the car at that point. torque management, tc and sc do the same thing once you are moving.
what happens when you are constantly adding power, then taking it away then adding then taking? when your wheels grab, then slip, then grab, then slip....? wheel hop.
if you are going to race this car, or drive "spiritedly" turn off all that stuff. it is there to assist you when your wheels lose traction, or you lose control of the car due to unpreventable circumstances. keeping those systems active while trying to push the car is counter active. you are trying to push the car, the car is trying to keep you from pushing it.
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Thanks for responding. I don't have time to write a full reply at the moment but will work on one later. I'm not too happy to hear we should run the car hard to see if it will break but if that is the case, I would want assurance from Gm my warranty won't be denied if it does. All the info you have given so far is very informative and info we didn't know. All of them are snapping at the same point which is interesting and shows it is a defect in the building process obviously with one of the machines the company is using. It makes sense if they use two or three different machines to harden the metal, that would explain why some are affected and others are not. With that said, it would be easy to determine how many are affected if you know the number of machines they are using in total.. Simply divide them up by the total number of Camaro's produced up until the date they discovered the issue and stopped using the faulty machine and you would know exactly how many Camaro's have the potential problem.