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08Z06 · 11-14-2007, 08:35 AM

Just brought my Z home last night.. 08 2LZ fully loaded Atomic Orange... it looks soooo good...

Anyway, not sure if it was just me trying to baby it for a bit, but I heard a bit of a chatter when first taking off... is that clutch chatter? Or is it something else? It did it about twice, then I never heard it again...

08Z06 · 11-14-2007, 08:39 AM

now that I read into it a bit, I think it could have just been cause the car was still cold... and it was brand new.. I'll listen for it and see if I continue to hear it, but it stopped when it got warmer... could be me being overly picky as well.. haha

**PerforminNorman** · 11-14-2007, 08:44 AM

Sounds like the infamous shifter rattle to me.

zedosix · 11-14-2007, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by PerforminNorman

Sounds like the infamous shifter rattle to me.

Wow, I've been trying to figure this one out for 2 weeks and no one had a clue. I guess I described the sound wrong. I brought it in for service and they are replacing the shifter. There is a service bulletin on it.

**blkZ06** · 11-14-2007, 06:14 PM

it's chattering because it's telling you to ship that vette to me

seamus2154 · 11-14-2007, 06:47 PM

What's the TSB say it's for ? I have an 08 for three wks now and I have a glitch going from 1st to 2nd where is difficult going into 2nd. I figured it would work in and that everything is new. Is there a replacement shifter? The shifter itself is much nicer than the previous ones.

**johniew398** · 11-14-2007, 07:28 PM

Don't know about the 08's. Had the rear end chatter in my 06Z and changing out the fluid plus adding the additive stopped it.

08Z06 · 11-15-2007, 06:54 AM

I guess i'll pay attention to it and see if it still does it... Guess I might just take it in for a new shifter

the machine · 11-15-2007, 10:07 AM

I think what you are experiencing is clutch chater. I had that for the first few hundred miles on and off but then the clutch seemed to break in and I never get it anymore. It freaked me out at first. I thought that I forgot how to drive a stick

. Once in a while now I do hear the shifter rattle which is very different and seems to happen only when I get on it very hard.

08Z06 · 11-16-2007, 07:29 AM

I was thinking it was the clutch...

08Z06 · 11-20-2007, 08:35 AM

I have narrowed it down.. its only when I am moving rather slow and the car bogs down a bit... like when its in first gear and creeping along...

Its starting to go away as I get more miles on the car

Gersh · 11-26-2007, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by seamus2154

What's the TSB say it's for ? I have an 08 for three wks now and I have a glitch going from 1st to 2nd where is difficult going into 2nd. I figured it would work in and that everything is new. Is there a replacement shifter? The shifter itself is much nicer than the previous ones.

I wonder if that is the 1st to 4th skip shift...
I had trouble with 1st to 2nd shifting on my old Z06--took me a while to figure it out, and then I noticed the tell-tale dash light.
Get a skip-shift eliminator.

C5_Z06er · 11-29-2007, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by the machine

I think what you are experiencing is clutch chater. I had that for the first few hundred miles on and off but then the clutch seemed to break in and I never get it anymore. It freaked me out at first. I thought that I forgot how to drive a stick

. Once in a while now I do hear the shifter rattle which is very different and seems to happen only when I get on it very hard.

i bought my 08 Z only few days ago.. i didn't get chance to drive it i only put around 110 miles on it. i heard this type of noise since the first day i drove it. It really freaked me out and i thought the same thing, i thought i forgot how to drive a stick. shall i tell the dealer about the problem or just wait until i put more miles on the car and see what happens!?

when did the chattering noise disappeared? after how many miles ?

Leman · 11-29-2007, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by 08Z06

I have narrowed it down.. its only when I am moving rather slow and the car bogs down a bit... like when its in first gear and creeping along...

Its starting to go away as I get more miles on the car

I have the same thing, and got somebody to listen from outside. it appears that it might be the limited slip differential. I do not get it so much in a straight line. Mine seems to be fading out as I get the miles on it though.

C5_Z06er · 11-29-2007, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Leman

I have the same thing, and got somebody to listen from outside. it appears that it might be the limited slip differential. I do not get it so much in a straight line. Mine seems to be fading out as I get the miles on it though.

when did it start fading? how many miles on the car now?