2007 XLR top up/down sequance; trunk does not close

[IAN]

Hi Sally.

I am sort of in agreement with you, the Dealers are not always professionnels, however the repairs shops are not always much better,

The reality is there are also fines dealers and some not so fines repairs shops, in exemple….. the XLR owner with a leaking Windshield that we debate yesterday.

IAN

 

[redvett94]

Dealers do not install windshields they outsource that job to glass specialists just like the one you used. Save yourself some money and get a competent installer the dealer will charge glass installer + charge you a shop fee. I have had good luck with Safelite.

Sorryfor the long winded responses I have been providing, not that good at thisforum stuff.

Hereis another side note; the windshield manhad put the top down to make it easier to replace the windshield. At some point a “large roll of tape” was on theleft rear folding wing. The glass manmade an attempt to put the top up so std tape could be used to hold thewindshield in place. However, when thetop was being put back up, the roll of “protection tape” fell down into thelinkage/levers and brackets resulting in a $6K dealer repair to the topmechanisium. Of course the glass mandenied anything to do with it until I provide vedio of what happened. The glass man reluctenly paid the bill. After the top was working again, the glassman tried to correct the leak several times; used the foam/air trick,removed/inspected/resealed windshield. Everyonewas confident that the windshield to sealant to frame was good and not thesource of the leak. But we still had theleak that starts at the very top corner of both A pillars. Then I flooded the top control while tryingto pin pint the leak source my self. Glassman said they couldn’t properly troubleshoot the leak until the top wasfixed. It has taken over a year to getthe parts/info/time for me to get the top working again. The glass man still has a bad taste over the$6K bill they had to pay so getting them involved a year later is notlikely. I feel they are not “competent”enough to really troubleshoot and diagnose the leak problem anyway. I pretty much took over the windshield leakjob. Had several friends look at theparts/seal/gasket area and they too don’t understand how the water at the topseal is supposed to get to the drain. Ifeel that the original windshield and a seal/gutter type part that was notremoved and put on the new GM stamped windshield. Iguess I will have to post some pictures to fully explain what I am trying tosay. To make matters worse (maybe better!?!?!?) thecurrent windshield just got a bad chip/crack. Plan to have a GM dealer that does a lot of Corevette windshileds makethe repair. Maybe they can resolve this.

PS;will be able to get access to a Tech II last updated 2010.

 

[IAN]

redvett94.

I agreed with you, the dealers mostly do service the XLR for the mechanical aspect of the XLR, as most of them do not have a body shop.

Also there is more and more, the road experts now, to fix your XlR at home or at the dealer.

Few years ago I had my XLR windshield replaced and the one receive at the dealer had no HUD feature, lucky for me, the after-market glass was return for the proper one... the owner of the glass shop was the same as the Chevrolet dealership.

Thanks.

IAN

 

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