bgood

Found this originally from Corvette Blogger. This video is quite interesting.

C7 shipping by rail in the near future??? Wow.

jagamajajaran

My 2012 Corvette was shipped to the dealer by rail. It had a ton of "rail dust" on it when I took delivery. Rail dust is tiny pieces of metal that flies off the train rails. The friction heats it and the hot metal embeds itself into the clear coat. I had to work the car over with a clay bar to get all of the rail dust out of the clear coat. No fun!

Glen e

already posted here:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c7-g...nashville.html

Mr. Wonderful

They used to ship Vega's by rail

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talon90

I don't doubt that you had "rail dust" like contaminants in the paint but it wasn't from being shipped by rail. Corvettes have not started shipping by rail and they weren't at all during the run of the C6.

The open transporters suffer from what was traditionally called rail dust as they travel on the highway and through industrial areas. These contaminants become airbourne and settle on the surfaces of the exposed paint as they travel on the highways. Brake dust from cars and trucks as well as industrial pollutants can be seen as rail dust on the painted surfaces. That was the first driver for switching to the covers on the Stingray.

jagamajajaran

Gotcha! All I know is that the entire upper surface of the car was covered with little pieces of metal embedded in the clear coat. My stripe installer called it rail dust and explained how this can occur from rail transportation. But since they didn't transport C6s by rail, I guess it came from another source. Nonetheless, covers are a good thing!

speedlink

Very interesting that they are starting to slowly build some convertibles now.

Thank you for the link. Good info. Find it interesting how we still have some comments from people that they are shipping by rail. No, not yet.

Gr8ful

I bought a new Mach1 off the showroom floor. Did not notice it had rail dust over all the horizontal surfaces. I too spend a day clay barring the car as it was the only way to get it smooth and clean.
Just hope my new C7 doesn't come that way.

jamesw95

They ship covered now, what difference does mode of transport make?

Glen e

Iron-X is what you use for rail dust, then clay picks up very little left...amazing stuff....

jagamajajaran

Thanks for the info!

gilbybarr

Great video....lots of info tidbits in there....like that they are building the convertibles now. Thanks for posting.

PJO

This is how management speaks " It"s a storage problem" yet a family members car VIN #25* built more then a month ago still sits in Nashville or is it witz under a Quality Control Audit. If you believe that story and that is the only reason for the cars being there then do I have something I would like to sell you.

Some one at GM, Chevy or the plant needs to step-up and disclose what other issues with the early production cars that are causing the long delays for these cars. No one will tell him what is going on with his car just that it is in QC. If it were me and not my family members car I would have told them 2 weeks ago to keep this car. This coming from someone who has been in love with corvettes since the mid 60's and has owned 10 different model years.

This reminds me of a similar scenario "Your at the airport the agent says your flight is delayed for an unknown reason then says we will update you later. So 3 hours goes by a new agent returns tells you that the flight will now depart an hour from now. 2 hours goes by and another agent arrives and now informs you the flight has been cancelled and have a nice day you can make new arrangement at the phone desk down the hall.

For me at this point I would not purchase a new Corvette now or in the future if this is how they treat customers laying down 70K for this particular car. Well I think I just vent some frustrations about a car that is not even mine. I have lost all respect for GM as a company.

* left off last digit not my car.