NHTSA Complaint #10510399 — 2008 CHEVROLET CORVETTE

AT VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE COMPUTER DISPLAY PANEL READS, "SERVICE ACTIVE HANDLING SYSTEM" ACCOMPANIED BY A SWERVING CAR ICON AND AN ALERTING DING SOUND. THE MESSAGE COMES ON PERIODICALLY, LASTING UP TO 15 OR 20 MINUTES AT A TIME, THEN SHUTTING OFF. SOMETIMES UPON STARTING THE ENGINE THE MESSAGE WILL APPEAR AND OTHER TIMES THE MESSAGE WILL BE OFF FOR DAYS AT A TIME. IT ALWAYS REAPPEARS. OVER THE YEARS THE BRAKE LIGHT SWITCH AND BRAKE SENSORS HAVE BEEN REPLACED (4/18/11; 10/8/11; 12/4/12) AS WELL AS REPLACEMENT OF THE FOB (12/18/12). ALTHOUGH THIS DISPLAY MESSAGE HAS APPEARED NUMEROUS TIMES OVER THE YEARS, THE MOST RECENT OCCURRENCES ARE AS FOLLOWS: 5/1/13; 4/30/13; 4/25/13; 3/28/13; 10/30/12. TWO CHEVROLET DEALERSHIPS HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO RESOLVE THIS MALFUNCTION TO DATE (5/2/13). SINCE 10/30/12, THIS CAR HAS BEEN SEEN SIX TIMES FOR THE SAME PROBLEM AT TWO DIFFERENT CHEVROLET DEALERSHIPS. THERE WAS A RECALL IN 2005 FOR THIS PROBLEM: "STEERING RECALL 2005-2006" "... IN RARE CASES, REPEATED MOVEMENT OF THE STEERING COLUMN MAY CAUSE A SIGNAL INTERRUPTION WITHIN THE COLUMN. IF THIS OCCURS, THE MESSAGE, "SERVICE ACTIVE HANDLING SYSTEM" WILL APPEAR... AND ONE OR MORE OF THE BRAKES MAY APPLY...". THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN DISPLAY MESSAGES ON MY CAR READING, "PRESS BRAKE TO START ENGINE", SO THIS PROBLEM, IN MY MIND, IS RELATED TO THE "ACTIVE HANDLING SYSTEM" ISSUE. *TR