In many aspects of life things are not always what they seem. It’s no different when it comes to ATS-Vs. Recently, we had an ATS-V in the shop that kept killing the battery and the customer diagnosed that the alternator had failed.

An annoyance no doubt, but upon further inspection we found there was more to the story. As it turned out, the alternator was in fact providing the necessary charge to the battery. However, these cars have the battery in the trunk and therefore need to send power all the way to the engine bay. For additional safeguarding in the process, there is a fuse block atop the battery of which there is  a 350A mega fuse. We found this fuse had blown, so the connection of power between the battery and charging system had failed.

We replaced the 350A mega fuse and this ATS-V began properly charging the battery properly once again. It just goes to show, there can always be more to the story!

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Steve from Texas recently dropped off his wicked cool blue M6 CT4-V Blackwing for our Blue Belt Package so he could get the power and sound he knew this car needed. He also wanted to spruce the appearance up with some carbon fiber parts he wasn’t able to get from Cadillac including a carbon fiber front splitter, rear spoiler,  airbox lid, and engine cover.

This customer had us install our Tapout Tuning Module (TTM) so he could get the most bang for his buck. Once that was installed in addition to his other Blue Belt parts, we created a custom dyno tune for him, producing five different power levels that can be switched in seconds using the no-charge cell phone app. The power ranges from 440 whp all the way up to 527 whp which is more than 100 whp over stock!

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