Oil changes are one of the most basic car maintenance items out there, but as is often the case with automobiles, things can still go wrong when you least expect it. And that is exactly what happens in the following C6 Corvette crash video.
Recently hitting social media, the video is only a few seconds long, but that’s all it takes for this C6 Corvette to cause some serious damage.
The video opens in a garage repair bay, where we see a C6 Corvette parked with its hood open. Although the video does not specify exactly what work is being performed, it certainly looks like an oil change. Finished in bright yellow paint matched with silver wheels and a black roof, the Corvette looks like it’s in pretty good shape – for the time being, at least.
As the video gets under way, we hear a phone ringing. A mechanic walks in front of the camera, presumably to answer the phone. Suddenly, the Corvette’s lights activate, and before we know it, the sports car is rolling backwards.
Shouts are heard as the car rolls back, and the open driver’s door collides with a drinking fountain, pulling the door forward before ripping the drinking fountain off the wall. The rear end of the Corvette collides with the garage door, pushing it out and breaking through it without even slowing down. The hood of the sports car is bent forward as the Vette continues backwards, eventually getting ripped off. The Corvette finally comes to a rest a handful of feet from the garage door.
The aftermath isn’t pretty. The door is busted, pieces of the Corvette lay on the ground, and a steady stream of water is pouring out of the wall from where the drinking fountain was forcibly removed.
It’s not exactly clear what happened, but per the comments section, it appears as though there’s actually an individual in the driver’s seat. Perhaps that individual accidentally started the Corvette, causing all the mayhem.
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Talk about a bad day at work. That sucks.
That’s just as bad as the guy that was getting his corvette delivered from a delivery service and it fell off the top of the truck.
It could have been a remote starter issue. If the button got bumped and it was left in gear (and didn’t have the correct safety’s built in) that could happen. That sucks for the car owner and the shop.
Definitely not… There’s no remote start on manual transmission. The remote start on automatic transmission requires the vehicle be in park and all doors trunk shut (on all of my GM)
Somebody’s never owned a relatively new manual transmission car.
Manuals can have remote start, particularly with aftermarket installs. They require both the handbrake be engaged and the transmission in neutral. Whether it is hooked up properly depends how competent the stereo shop or shadetree mechanic is. (Likely not very)
I have a 2018 Zl1 1LE with manual transmission, remote start not available (for obvious safety reasons) Maybe that’s not recent enough for you to consider “relatively new manual transmission car” The C6 was also not available with remote start with manual (assuming the vehicle in the video is manual.)
How or why would anyone want to attempt aftermarket remote install with manual vehicle.. Shade tree mechanic or not
There’s a continent called “Europe” where 80% of the cars are manual, and it’s considerably colder than the US. That’s why.
My 2016 Chevy Cruze Manual also does not have an option for remote start. The Automatic does though.
Any aftermarket remote start can be installed into a manual transmission car. And if someone doesn’t want to bother with the handbrake-clutch in-double handbrake routine required to have it set up in a manual car, you just use the auto transmission setting and off you go. That will lead to the risk of hitting the remote while it’s in gear and it drives away.
I’ve seen it happen.
That’s why I change my own oil !
IS THIS THE WEEK FOR WRECKING NICE CORVETTES…?????
NEXT WEEK IT WILL BE WRECKING DODGE CHARGERS….
STAY TUNED!!!!!
i change my own oil as well !
Before I saw the video, I was expecting it to fall into the pit. The damage caused from backing through the garage door with the door open could potentially be worse.
I have news for you, I had a 1973 dodge charger and when I got out of the car, it started to roll. The car was not in park well enough. My fault, so who ever drove the car on the lift, it was his own fault. This is something you must be aware of all the time, owning a car.
This is why you do oil change yourself. Super expensive to get oil change at lube places and they always forget something. Disaster waiting to happen and your insurance goes way up for another person’s incompetence.
When a famous lube place forgot to put my oil cap back on engine I never ever had someone else do an oil change ever again. Way cheaper to do it myself.
I only take my Vette to a flat drive on pit with no drive up ramp for oil changes.
When you zoom in on the video, you can see a person in the driver’s seat and then crap there pants as it go through the garage door! Luber-goobers! Who takes there corvette a speed lub shop anyway! Poor C6😢!
One thing to consider is that many aftermarket remote starts also have a phone app program that will allow you to remote start your vehicle from your phone. Now this is supposed to be disabled with the parking brake released or the hood/door open but if it was a crap install it’s possible that the owner may have accidently engaged the remote start from his/her phone causing this. Definitely a possibility.
I saw a guy at a Ferrari Concours watch helplessly as his pristine vintage Ferrari got loose and rolled off his trailer crashing ( expensively ) into his OTHER vintage Ferrari ! A very bad day for that unfortunate Ferrariiste !! 😀
Only time my car gets damaged is when at a shop. Dents, scratches, dirty seats, stripped wheel lugs, wheel falling off, punctured radiator. Took wife’s car for tire rotation and two Techs couldn’t drive it cause it’s a manual. These incidents happened at Dealers and private shops doing warranty work or new tires. Nobody cares. Was there a driver in Vette and put car in reverse? Looks like it is a pit?
Yup, I always change my own oil and do most of my own maintenance, nobody cares as much as I do about my vehicle.
Gee,Another INCOMPETENT Corvette handler.
Most importantly, why would anyone take a car to a quick oil change place. Who do you think works there? An ASE certified technician? If you think that, you’re kidding yourself. An oil changer at one of these couldn’t get a job at McDonalds.
A couple of wheel chocks could of prevented that ! which should of been mandatory to begin with !
Watch the video with the sound of the engine starting, and he drives out. Wheel chocks would not help, they only work to stop a car from rolling in a nonrunner.
Wrong,they would have stopped it. I know from experience.
WOW must be some huge heavy wheel chocks to overpower 400 HP, I think you need to do a retest.
They work,try a test run some time.
I do all my oil changes on 7 cars. But, in this case, it may not be the oil change shop’s fault. The engine starts, and the driver backs it out. Who was the driver the owner or another employee That’s why the employee is yelling hey, hey hey.
I’ve had three stick shift GM cars and all of them require you to depress the clutch to start the car.
it’s pretty obvious that the tech inside the vehicle started it without his foot on the clutch while it was in reverse.
Wrong It will not start unless your foot is on the clutch, you are living in the 1960s
Remote starts wont-work if doors are open or hood is open.
I have a C6Z which only has one safety step which requires the clutch to be depressed before the engine will start. It don’t care if doors are open, hood is up, etc. If the clutch position switch malfunctions and the car is in gear it will start the motor and it will cause a disaster. Trust me it happened to me. GM created two safety steps on the C7’s with manuals, the clutch and brake both have to be depressed before it will turn over the motor.
Hmm I thought you were supposed to chock wheels when working on car.