Neither will your Corvette.

 

I'm a DD and I live in Glendale. We had crazy rain yesterday. Nothing happened. Just dont dip your car in a pool of water lol.

alot of people act as if the corvette is fragile. IT IS NOT fragile. Its a tough car and it can stand all sorts of weather etc. It all comes down to personal opinion on when to drive it and when not too. But I can assure you, your corvette will not be affected by rain. not unless the front half of the car is submerged in a pool of water. Then again, that goes for any car.

 

I am up the road from you. My DD is a black vert. It has been pouring rain non stop. The ground and highways are saturated. I drive just like I would drive any of my vehicles. My car has been a lot of things, but "fragile" is not one of them.

I have a 2000 and the top does not leak and the motor runs even better than in the summer.

I have to admit, when I get home and shut the garage door, I dry it off.

 

Rain = garage for Vette. Rain also = take truck not Vette

 

i think half the members in here would pass out if they saw the water tests that are performed on every vette in the bowling green plant

 

lol, i know right.
its a judgment call. I wouldn't go around trying to push your luck. use your best judgement. Never go into water that you are unsure of depth. You also, get some of those jerks that think that just because they can blast through the water that its ok and they create a huge wake that can overwhelm some of the lower ground clearance cars. so you also have that to watch out for. Try to avoid anything thats higher than your black air dam, take a different route if possible

 

Absolutely correct! Water does not compress. Ask me how I know! The number 7 connecting rod in my engine got bent into an "S" shape and the engine siezed from water in the # 7 cylinder. It's like having cement in the cylinder. I was lucky that my local dealer did the repairs under warranty. The problem was that my car was in the shop for almost two months.

After they had already pulled the engine out of the car, the dealer gave me the run-a-round saying that they were having trouble getting a replacement piston & connecting rod from GM. My argument was, if they couldn't get the individual replacement parts that they needed from GM, then they should get the next biggest part that already contained the parts they needed, like a new short block. They local district representative for GM said that he would not authorize a new short block, and that I had to wait for the new piston and connecting rod to arrive from the GM factory before they would complete the repairs. I couldn't argue much, as they were willing to do the repairs under my GM factory warranty. I'm very careful around water hazards these days!

 

Extensive testing
The completed ‘Vette weighs 3,200 pounds and contains 1,376 parts from 387 different suppliers. Each new car is run through a water tunnel to test for leaks, and revved up on a stationary wheel for monitoring on the plant’s latest computerized equipment.

To add to Corvette’s quality control, three of them are “audited” each morning. They’re driven from the end of the assembly line and turned loose on the local roads and streets of Bowling Green for various stages of testing.

Even though there are more than seven miles of conveyers that move the cars and parts in the building, the Corvette is still the star of the show. Once that key is turned and the motor growls, someone’s dream is made.

Cool baby!

 

I had to drive through a few seriously flooded intersections. that happen to you? -bmb

 

I am being serious because your eyes are not calibrated
to judge the exact depth of the water your fording,all it
takes is one big dip in the road and it's sayonara to
your engine.

This being your DD,I would be even more cautious about
water hazards if you didn't have another vehicle to fall back on.

Just my $.02 worth

 

You can drive down the street or highway all day long in a downpour and never think twice - it is those intersections and off-ramps that can take your Vette out in a heartbeat... and when the 18-Wheeler's are barreling down on you from behind on an off-ramp it may be too late to avoid the river below.

Where I live we have very poor drainage. A good rule of thumb down here is, "If all you can see are what appear to be sombreros floating in an intersection, you should avoid it at all costs". Beneath each sombrero is an illegal immigrant that has been sacrificed as a dipstick - learn from their mistakes! Every time it rains here, they come floating across the border and seem to collect in the intersections where the water changes direction.

 

What do you mean...'had to'...?

My first mod way back when was the Halltech TRIC. Do a search...

I'm still running it. In Florida. 100,000 miles on the TRIC as well. I avoid standing water like the plague. But I've driven in the worst of the worst Florida summertime downpours and its not the highway or secondary roads that concern me, its the city streets that drain poorly.

I once made a u-turn on a one way street in downtown Tampa because I WAS NOT driving thru a flooded intersection.

 

 

So sad!!!

 

Yeah I wasn't too comfortable driving through some intersections in Torrance yesterday either.

 

When it rains I pull out the c3 it has more clearance. I did drive my C5 in the rain once, I just changed my normal route to avoid the dips.

 

haven't driven in FL, in LA sometimes you can't make a U turn