Brakes

No single point of failure on the C5 Corvette is more prolific than the EBCM failure. It'll light your dashboard up with warnings, take out traction control and ABS with it, and the issue has only gotten worse as the platform ages, as more units are failing and GM discontinued production of the units. Enter the DIY enthusiast market. Folks have figured out how to troubleshoot the problems, and companies have stepped up to repair the units that can be ...

In our last article with the Dead To Shred C5 Corvette, we took out the D2S C5 Corvette and track tested it with five different drivers. While all the drivers had fun and had some general positive takes on the C5 Corvette, the complaints that were consistent across all drivers was that they all lamented the lack of ABS, and the vibration on the car was clearly an issue that needed to be sorted. These were all pretty attainable goals ...

Want to know what a "worst case" journey with a C5 Corvette is like? Well have we got the journey for you! Our staff writer Shred Jesse went and picked up a 2001 C5 Corvette 6 speed manual for a modest $9000. That's a steal post COVID... or was it? The "Dead to Shred" series will be an ongoing series of articles on saving a C5 Corvette. Make that a C5 Corvette that nobody wanted and most folks would consider ...