The pics from the pavers thread are great, but what about on dirt?

 

I don't think you will get too many takers on this one. I keep telling ,myself that I am going to drive my car to work( I work in Puerto Penasco Mexico where there is a lot of dirt and sand) and can't bring myself to do it. Thats why I bought my Hummer. I take that thing over dunes and everywhere.

 

Grass

 

Wow....nice photo!

 

The dirt make the color look deeper.

WB

 

Damn that thing looks nice on green.

 

yard.

 

In a word...."don't" if you can possibly avoid it.

I'm one of the 'lucky' ones with about 1/2 mile of dirt road leading to my house. With the Arizona monsoon storms....the road is a maze of washboards, rocks, ruts, holes and ravines (where stormwater runoff has simply washed-away the road).

If I'm lucky, they grade the road every couple of months...the last time they graded it washed out the next day. With an LPE CAI, even though I can handle moderate rain, I can't handle the standing water in the many dips in the roads. Even with a stock C6, the manual says to avoid standing water. I drive my 3/4 ton 4x4 Suburban when it rains. The only good thing about the rain is it settles the dust. If the road is dry....my car is dusted coming and going (I wash the car a lot).

I don't get out of 1st gear on the dirt road. Besides carefully picking my way to avoid scraping, if you get any speed you end up chipping paint with rock spray....they do have 'splash' guards you can install on the wheel wells but just crawling along will save your paint. I pray a big dually doesn't come by and bury my car in dirt (some people are great about slowing down...others not).

I clean filters frequently and (again) wash the car almost daily. Dirt roads and Corvettes are not a good mix!

The aforementioned notwithstanding, I live in a great location and wouldn't consider moving.

 

 

I live a mile and a half off the blacktop along a gravel road. The vettes negotiate the gravel very well although at a slow speed. Wouldn't have it any other way if you could see the view of the river valley from my front porch you wouldn't either. (No houses, no roads)

 

I don't recommend this either. Here's a pic of me on the way to visiting a friend in Oregon while on my way home from Museum Delivery last week. He lives at the end of a mile-long dirt road. The front air dam scraped if I went more than about 3 mph, and I mostly kept one tire on the ridge in the center of the road, with the other tire on one of the side ridges. Nope, this is not the environment for these cars…

 

 

How about sharing a picture of that view?

 

The most beautiful time of day for daytona sunset orange is when the sun is going down.

 

How many of you 'off roaders' use splash guards?

az