Glad you are loving it. I bought a Ford lemon law car years ago and we never had any trouble with it. Sometimes you wonder if the original owner's "real" trouble was paying the car note!!

 

As a mechanic I've always found it amusing reading some of the complaints that people have logged regarding vehicles written up in Consumers Reports. Some of the complaints I read caused me to think WTF! Are you serious?

Some of the best cars I have ever owned as far as their dependability goes had a bad write up in Consumers Magazines.

 

I had the same thoughts after buying my 'vette, coming up on a year and still loving it, maybe even more.

As far as the car you bought, you did the right thing. Do a little research, ask others, think it over and then make your own decision. When I was looking I found a '08 in my price range but it was ROUGH when I looked at it. I had a VIS report pulled and it had been in for clutch work many times. It was obvious the owner could not drive a stick and did not know how to take care of a car, make my decision easy. The car was a 1 owner and I later found out it was a local dentist, he had plenty of cash but no mechanical ability, lol.

 

Glad you're enjoying your car! I just ignore the idiots that want to race.

 

without a photo it never happened.

 

Ignore them, mostly. There's a time and place for racing, and it's not on public roads.

 

What do y’all do with people that want to race you?


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Ill be the honest one here. I fulfill there wish of being embarrassed in front of passengers. No need to lie it's a Vette.

 

 

regarding the race "opponents" in the next lane... I just smile and if they are laughing a little, I laugh a little.

have had my vette for a year and have never been challenged (is that the word?) by anything close to my vette----it's usually a civic with an airplane wing, a camry with extra rad hubcaps, and once a suburban with luggage strapped to the roof (seriously). i'm not sure what they're doing, some appear serious and others are just goofing around.

if i look over i smile or laugh but generally i ignore the ford focus with the engine revving ... mostly because they're hard to hear over my own exhaust.

long answer short, i do nothing, just continue to enjoy the ride.

 

Now and I then I will go, but if the car is something less than a Vette, I just kind of laugh; that gets many pissed! Now if it is some expensive car that you know you can beat, that is just fun. I spanked a new BMW Z3 once with my LT4 C4 a few years back. The guy thinks he has something so we go, and it was almost silly. I then say to him "I bet you're glad you spent $75k and got beat by a $14k Corvette!". He wasnt amused. The only other one I did and broke my rule was some guy in a silly *** Suburu WR4. He pulls up next to me at a light and is revving. I laugh. Next light again and my gf goats me so........we were dead even through 2nd, I hit 3rd and waved by...and that was in the LT4, not a C6. I told my friend who is a lawyer the story and he about clocked me. He told me judges hate drag racing worse than drunk driving and told me if I ever do get pulled over to deny any racing; tell him the other guy kept at it; you wanted nothing to do with it. What I do now is like I said. It seems Mustang drivers tend to have small ***** syndrome around Vettes; they always like to pull up and rev, I just laugh; gets em madder. There is a guy in our area in a black Challenger with license plates VITO, and EVERY time he pulls up next to me has to rev it. It doesn't appear to be a big Hemi car either, but I think it frustrates him more to not race!

All in all you will get used to it; it seems like mostly from cars that are less!

 

It happens, my wife gets more wannabes than I do. She finds it very annoying.

 

Next up, clay bar, polishing and waxing..
Do your self a favor and try one of these, beats clay by a mile and so easy, plus if you drop it or you think its dirty just rinse it off with cold water. I don't use clay anymore at all
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Yep....Consumers Report is a joke. Many years ago when VCR's and all that video stuff was hot we would research some and Consumers would test models from different retailers that were the exact same unit only with different names on the front....Sanyo - Fisher..etc. Consumers would rate one much better than the other......

 

 

 

You dont have to RUB as with clay, in fact you shouldn't, follow the instructions with a detail spray as a lube and its so easy I love their products
NSF

 

Congratulations but don’t polish all the paint off!

 

Sounds like you made the right choice. Glad you're happy with it. They're great cars. Congrats!

 

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I have more of a problem with people wanting me to do a burnout. I reply no thanks, I don't want to destroy my nearly new rear tires that would cost nearly a grand to replace and then have to clean all the molten and shredded rubber bits off my back fenders.