C8 Corvette Frunk Flies Open Depending on Mood, Recall Is in Order

Recalled front lid of C8 Corvette stays locked after 10 minutes, per GM. Some owners wished they would while driving, though.

The first year of any car is going to have a few flaws. Over time, those flaws disappear until, at the final year, you hope to have the best example ever made. The Corvette is no exception, whether it’s the lack of V8 power until 1955, the hideaway wipers in the first years of the C3, or the lack of real V8 power for most of the C4’s life until the LT1 arrived in 1992.

Alas, a flaw has been found in the C8 Corvette. According to Motor Trend, the front trunk lid fails to open after 10 minutes following any given trip.

Per General Motors in a statement, “certain 2020 model year Chevrolet Corvette vehicles fail to conform to S4.1 of Federal/Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (F/CMVSS) No. 401, ‘Interior Trunk Release.'” What does this mean?

In short, if your C8 Corvette is affected, the front trunk lid will not open after the car’s been asleep for 10 minutes. Should your little one hop in the trunk, then close the lid, it will not be a fun time.

Luckily, a fix is in: GM “will update the software in the vehicles’ Body Control Module (BCM) to lower the voltage required to wake the vehicle from the low power ‘sleep’ mode.” Thus, you’ll be able to liberate your kid or pet from the ‘Vette without having to start your ride.

Said fix is available either over-the-air, or at your dealership, whether or not you opted-in.

Of course, you and your C8 Corvette may have a more frightening issue than a stuck front trunk lid. Like, perhaps, a lid that wants to open whenever and wherever it wants. One YouTuber, Pinmaniac, experienced this first-hand just a few days ago, pulling out of a parking lot when the lid opened at 44 mph.

According to Motor Trend, Chevy said its engineering team was “investigating the issue and working to understand the cause of these reports.”

That’s scary, for sure. We hope a resolution is in the works very soon.

Photos: Chevrolet

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Cameron Aubernon

Cameron Aubernon's path to automotive journalism began in the early New '10s. Back then, a friend of hers thought she was an independent fashion blogger.

Aubernon wasn't, so she became one, covering fashion in her own way for the next few years.

From there, she's written for: Louisville.com/Louisville Magazine, Insider Louisville, The Voice-Tribune/The Voice, TOPS Louisville, Jeffersontown Magazine, Dispatches Europe, The Truth About Cars, Automotive News, Yahoo Autos, RideApart, Hagerty, and Street Trucks.

Aubernon also served as the editor-in-chief of a short-lived online society publication in Louisville, Kentucky, interned at the city's NPR affiliate, WFPL-FM, and was the de facto publicist-in-residence for a communal art space near the University of Louisville.

Aubernon is a member of the International Motor Press Association, and the Washington Automotive Press Association.

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