Recent content by leres

I'm at ~800 miles and have yet to take it over 3K RPM. I've mostly driven with the suspension set to tour and it's pretty stiff, probably stiffer than sport mode with my '14 CTS-V. But I like it. FYI, my 5BW is the only one I've ever driven. It's too bad you probably won't have the chance to...

I bought their kit for my cts-v. I verified that I could both jack up the car and fit the wheel on both the front and the rear. The tire just barely fit into the spare tire wheel well. I think they do their homework. (I left it in the car when I sold it.)

I knew GM uses a engine build date code sticker so I went looking for mine. In my case used my trusty usb endoscope and found it on rear of the driver's side head, here's a pic from a Corvette: The date code on mine starts with 2025104... So the year is 2025 and the julian day is 104 or April...

Before I gave up I had removed the big plastic panel (8-10 flat-head torx fasteners, 4 washer-bolts, and one push pin), and the fasteners from the driver's side plastic panel (3 washer-bolts) but the last panel was pinned so I put everything back together. Maybe someone with a SI subscription...

I used an endoscope to look at mine which looks fine. My car was built on May 21st, 2025.

I removed some aero panels on my 5BW yesterday to try and get a look at my oil pan plug (I decided it was too much and gave up -- using an endoscope from the top side was way easier). I was surprised to find a bolt hanging out on the passenger side! Looks like M14 x 1.25 x 30mm. I can well...

It's been a long time since I parallel parked without lowering and using the passenger side mirror. You can't hit a curb if you can see it. The 360-vision camera is interesting to look at when parking but my brain hasn't been calibrated yet to deal with the distortion introduced by it...

(There is a a USB-A and USB-C inside the center console and a USB-C on the back for the passengers -- so three total)

I got a reply to my feedback:

My guess is they moved stuff around to make it cheaper/faster to assemble. I submitted some feedback, feels like a rip to pay tribute and not get correct info... I bought mine car new. I'm just trying to tap into one of the (numerous) can buses. Fun facts there are (at least) 10 can buses and...

I paid for a 3-day subscription to the service manual to answer this and some other questions. It says the K73 module is in the right side rear compartment (trunk). There's a bracket for it but it's not there! It's not in the left side either. (I'm guessing they moved it to the glovebox area...

I had a 6A charger hooked up when I started the usb update process and the battery still got down to < 12.2V before it was done. According to some "agm percentage" charges that indicates less than 60% charged. I suspect they got burned so badly by the lyric fiasco that they went too conservative!

It looks like there are two versions: PSC-550S (13.6V @ 55A) and PSC-700S (14.4V @ 70A).

I used SPS2 to install the update last night. Over an hour in total. It took awhile to download (and I have at&t fiber), awhile to "verify", awhile to write the usb, and about 30 minutes to install the update. I ended up with the expected version: burmese_orange-user 12...