- Jun 13, 2022
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Hello everyone, I made a thread a little while ago and have done lots of research on this common electrical gremlins in the C6, 2005 especially… my 05 2 drives ago which was about 2 months ago now went into limp mode while driving around 80km/h engine light came on, reduced engine power, and power steering lost.
I ended up disconnecting my battery and re connecting and drove home with no issues. Then after research I tried to clean ECU connectors and check some grounds in engine bay all seemed good, a week later I went to take it out and it stalled out about 10 mins of idling , well at that point I put it into the garage and left it until last night I was thinking about it and doing some more research and very briefly I caught someone say check for loose battery terminals … so I did and they were very loose both + & - like I could turn them left and right and take them off with my pinky … i tightened them up temporarily because I think I need new terminals and I took my car to get gas and I had it running constantly for about 35 mins with no issues ..
I did end up buying a used ECU to have my shop put in and re program but I really want to get to the bottom of this … could anyone please share their thoughts and suggestions on what I could do ?
would loose battery terminals cause the issues I had or is there more going on than that and should I continue to have my ECU replaced ?
thank you I look forward to your guys suggestions
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I ended up disconnecting my battery and re connecting and drove home with no issues. Then after research I tried to clean ECU connectors and check some grounds in engine bay all seemed good, a week later I went to take it out and it stalled out about 10 mins of idling , well at that point I put it into the garage and left it until last night I was thinking about it and doing some more research and very briefly I caught someone say check for loose battery terminals … so I did and they were very loose both + & - like I could turn them left and right and take them off with my pinky … i tightened them up temporarily because I think I need new terminals and I took my car to get gas and I had it running constantly for about 35 mins with no issues ..
I did end up buying a used ECU to have my shop put in and re program but I really want to get to the bottom of this … could anyone please share their thoughts and suggestions on what I could do ?
would loose battery terminals cause the issues I had or is there more going on than that and should I continue to have my ECU replaced ?
thank you I look forward to your guys suggestions
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