Tailgating
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Melting Slicks
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Tailgating
Since getting my C5 I have noticed that I get tailgated a lot more than with any other car I've owned. This annoys me to no end, and wonder if I'm just over-reacting or if others have noticed the same thing.
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I hear you...same with me.
One thing you have to remember is that they may be following you "about" the same as if you were driving another car, but the Vette is quite a bit shorter than your typical car so they feel even closer than normal.
Make sense?!?
They still need to stay back!!
Don't think your average car is going to outbrake a Vette
One thing you have to remember is that they may be following you "about" the same as if you were driving another car, but the Vette is quite a bit shorter than your typical car so they feel even closer than normal.
Make sense?!?
They still need to stay back!!
Don't think your average car is going to outbrake a Vette
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Had one to close to my rump the other day. Turned on the lights really quick and watched him dance all over his dash board.
When I rode a bike, tailgating on my rear wheel was the norm so I carried a couple of old spark plugs. If you drop them just right they rattle all around under the frame of the car that is tailgating you. They back off pretty quick.
When I rode a bike, tailgating on my rear wheel was the norm so I carried a couple of old spark plugs. If you drop them just right they rattle all around under the frame of the car that is tailgating you. They back off pretty quick.
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I have noticed it in my vette also,I guess because most of the time I drive a ford crew cab long bed dually.That thing is long as a train and looking in the rear view they look a long way off compared to the vette.
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Vette is quite a bit shorter than your typical car so they feel even closer than normal.
Make sense?!?
Make sense?!?
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I've noticed it too, but I live in 4X4 truck country and I think it has to do with the fact that the trucks headlights are looking down on me.... 
If I have room to move, its easy enough to make space ...but when your caught behind traffic or at a light, its enough to make me sweat!
If I have room to move, its easy enough to make space ...but when your caught behind traffic or at a light, its enough to make me sweat!
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When I was a young buck (before the C5), I'd just downshift without breaking. Normally all I'd see were a big set of eyes and a dashboard dance (great phrase by the way
). That really seemed to upset people though. Now I just tap the breaks enough to flash the brake lights. If they don't get the hint, I just slow down until they pass me. When that happens, I think, I'd drive that fast too if I was driving that junker!
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Gently ease off the gas and slow down by 10 mph. Accelerate to 100 yards and reset the speed. Repeat, repeat.......
They'll get bored and go by soon enough.
They'll get bored and go by soon enough.
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Scares me to drive the Vette out there. Now i Take the crew cab 2500 chevy. figure if they gonna run over me,I don't want to be in a Vette...
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In the C5, you're sitting pretty far back in the car, in a very low position, and the car has a relatively high rear. These factors make it seem worse than it is. It's not that you're not being tailgated, it's just that it looks alot worse in the vette.