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Old 06-22-2011, 6:54pm   #1
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Default that was fun... at least Corvettes are light enough to push
So I took the 84 for a spin. Got about a mile down the road, and it stopped accelerating.
if I took my foot off the gas, the car would die.
last time it did this, I found the butterfly on my choke to be shut.
so I looked this time- nope.

So I turned around, having to refire the car 4 or 5 times, to get back on the road. seemed to do okay going down the road as long as I didn't go into 4th gear... then I hit the one red light between where I was and my house. It died.
I tried to start it, battery said no.

So I had to push my car 1/8 of a mile to my house then up my driveway.

the best part was the people were honking at me, but not one person stopped to help me push.
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Old 06-22-2011, 6:55pm   #2
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C4 owners...you guys should be prepared for this stuff by now...
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Nobody wanted to be caughi dead pushing a C4.
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Sorry, I had a hot dinner in the passenger seat on my way home to feed my family. You looked like you had it covered.
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Old 06-22-2011, 6:56pm   #5
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C4 owners...you guys should be prepared for this stuff by now...
I'm new to the C4 thing.
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never missed my C5's as much I did then.

of course, this car was 10% of the price of either C5 I had.
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I'm new to the C4 thing.
Bet you won't be a C4 owner for long
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I don't know. it does have more personality than my C5's... with the LCD dash and stuff... but my Focus is faster.
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the best part was the people were honking at me, but not one person stopped to help me push.
My bad. I had places to go though, and if we are being honest you were in the fucking way.
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I don't know. it does have more personality than my C5's... with the LCD dash and stuff... but my Focus is faster.
well i guess so if you have to push it everywhere



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And now you have learned why they called them "cease fires."
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Clutch master cylinder went out in mine once on the way home. Luckily I was only a mile or less from home. So I put it in second, cranked it, and limped down the road at 20/25 mph. Traffic backed way up behind me. So here's thos Vette, creeping doen the road, lots of cars behind it. I know they were wondering WTF was going on. Ahhh, good times of a C4 owner.
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And now you have learned why they called them "cease fires."
the crossfire was replaced with a Quadrajet.

I'm guessing the problem lies there-in
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My c2 overheated and only one person stopped. A fairly hot chick. She said she didn't know anything about cars, but had to stop because it was such a cool car.
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My c2 overheated and only one person stopped. A fairly hot chick. She said she didn't know anything about cars, but had to stop because it was such a cool car.
I think I read this penthouse letter in 1974
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the crossfire was replaced with a Quadrajet.

I'm guessing the problem lies there-in


More likely GM's wonderful Optispark, evidently designed by Britian's Prince of Darkness, Lucas Electrics.
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I blew a hose once in mine but was way out in the country. I was stuck at a gas station and a local kid was looking at it like it was a lambo

BTW fcuk you c4 haters
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