01 C5 Service Active Handling Soon - warning

Very interesting point about the battery. I have ham radio in my C5 and
each time I turn the key to ON it briefly displays the battery voltage.
I noticed my was recently down to 11.2 volts until I started the car and
it would then go to 14.2 or 14.3. I will be watching the battery
voltage to see if it continues to drop off. I thought batteries should
be at least 12 volts but maybe that is wrong. When the car was new with
the crappy Delco AGM battery I complained about low voltage and the
dealer said it has to be below 10.5 volts before GM would take
corrective action. My corrective action was to ditch the useless Delco
battery. Too bad there is no warning system to let you know a battery
is about to crap out (potential new/old topic for discussion)

In article >,
Dude > wrote:

> I ran into this problem about a year ago. I would get that message
> about once a week. At about that same time my battery died, so I
> replaced it. I have not seen the "service active handling soon"
> message since then.
>
> Dude
>
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:16:25 GMT, aRKay > wrote:
>
> >I had a "Service Active Handling Soon" DIC warning and it cleared itself
> >overnight. Two days later I had the same warning so I took it to the
> >dealer. My car is still covered by GMPP. By the time I got to the
> >dealer the warning disappeared. They ran some checks and said there may
> >have been communications error. They reset everything and ask me to try
> >it. So far it has not showed up again. The service manager wants to be
> >sure there is a really a problem before going into the handling system.
> >Replacing the sensor on the steering column can be nasty even if GM is
> >paying the bill.
> >
> >Anybody ever had the Service Active Handling Soon warning? If so what
> >was the fix?
> >
> >aRKay
> >2001 BK/bb/6-spd Coupe

Dude wrote:
> I ran into this problem about a year ago. I would get that message
> about once a week. At about that same time my battery died, so I
> replaced it. I have not seen the "service active handling soon"
> message since then.
>
> Dude
>
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:16:25 GMT, aRKay > wrote:
>
>> I had a "Service Active Handling Soon" DIC warning and it cleared itself
>> overnight. Two days later I had the same warning so I took it to the
>> dealer. My car is still covered by GMPP. By the time I got to the
>> dealer the warning disappeared. They ran some checks and said there may
>> have been communications error. They reset everything and ask me to try
>> it. So far it has not showed up again. The service manager wants to be
>> sure there is a really a problem before going into the handling system.
>> Replacing the sensor on the steering column can be nasty even if GM is
>> paying the bill.
>>
>> Anybody ever had the Service Active Handling Soon warning? If so what
>> was the fix?
On a Stabilitrac system, yes. Reset it, forget it, didn't come back.

>>
>> aRKay
>> 2001 BK/bb/6-spd Coupe
>
We've put over 65K miles on two Stabilitrac systems ('01 and '03
Buicks). These are a narrow bandwidth version of AH. I'm three months
into Active Handling on a three-year old C5 (have the first owner's
records -- no AH repairs). I've not had a day when these systems weren't
functional.

The ABS on my C4 has some of the components that are used in Stabilitrac
and Active Handling (sideforce sensing but no yaw rate sensing. The C4
ABS has been running for almost 17 years (2 or 3 activations each year).
It failed test one morning due to corrosion in one of Bosch's copper
connectors. Otherwise, no malfunctions. (Punchline: This stuff is
dependable -- no sweat! I've always had all of the brake fluid changed
during each brake job.

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…PJ
’89 HookerCar, ’02 E-blu 6-spd Coupe