Has anyone taken there C7 on a road trip how did it go ?

 

Yes I have. It went real good. I was comfortable while driving good gas mileage around 27mpg . I didnt have any problems

 

Yes, The longest was 8000 miles, several of a few thousand miles, and so on down to several hundred miles.

Is there anything in particular that you are concerned about?

 

A year ago I did a 8000 mile trip in my convertible with my golf clubs in the trunk. You have to use soft luggage though.

 

Not yet as I just got the car last November and put it away for the winter not long after that, but hopefully will be doing some road tripping this spring, summer and fall. Furthest I have driven the car so far is about 300 miles round trip. Car was very comfortable.

 

Took our 2014 Z51 on the National Corvette Caravan in 2014 - 6250 miles of bliss!

(leaving August 22nd for the 2019 NCC in our new '19 GS and it too will be comfy and wonderful!)

 

21,000 miles on the car and 20,000 of it is road trips, and it's a convertible. Been through intense heat, intense rain, and some scary cold. Sea level to 11,000 feet. From 0 mph to well over 100 (cough, cough) Been down the straight roads of Nevada, the curves of the Million Dollar Highway, and through the Tail of the Dragon. Been from Bowling Green to Biloxi, from San Diego to Seattle. NO ISSUES: No rattles, no squeaks, no flats (knock, knock), no tickets (double knock knock), and plenty of storage. I would do it all again in a heartbeat. Loved every mile. Looking forward to many more.

 

You do need to understand the limitations of the car- less storage space than a typical sedan, low ground clearance, 40'/20' temperature on the tires unless you buy All Season, etc.

But we've been using our Corvettes for road trips for 18 years, several of them over 3 months/7k miles. We love it.

 

ground clearance is what I'm afraid of

 

Just use a little common sense (such as a questionable rise or drop) and enter/leave at 45 degrees for example and take it easy over speed bumps.

Bah....no biggie

 

Ground clearance is the same here as it is there.

 

Good point

 

I have taken three very long road trips for a total of 14,000 miles. I encountered two problems which I thought ended my trips in mid course. On one trip on our way home the car went into limp mode turned out I had left the Range AFM Disabler plugged in for the entire trip and it threw a code. Range Technology has since solved that problem.

During my cross country trip from Oregon to Charleston SC this past summer after stopping at a rest stop in Arkansas the power steering assist stop working. Turned out it was a lose negative ground wire and I was able to continue on the trip.

Bottomline, just this week I just booked my hotels for my next trip to the east coast.

 

huh? Why would you be concerned about that?

 

I've been on many trips with a friend in his Stingray including 4000 and 7000 mile trips. No problems with comfort, good mileage and enough storage for two guys with the occasional laundry trip.

You will want to have front end protection for rock chips, either clear-bra or leather bra (or both).

 

You joining the PNW NCC?

 

That can indeed be an issue. Our C7 scraped bottom over several parking lot speed bumps in the Phoenix area last year, regardless of how slowly we drove over them. When we got home, I measured the ride height (specs are in the Service Manual) and discovered that our car was about 1/8" lower than spec. Adjusted it upward it up to spec and no scraping this year, but we have also avoided those locations. Might not work so well when our tire tread wears down. No off-roading!

Proper technique (taking steep rams at an angle, slowly) helps a lot with driveways but you are still driving a low car with a front overhang. The splitter on a GS/Z06 seems more vulnerable, but I haven't measured the clearance on them.

If you take a abrupt ramp too fast, you can scrape or even break the skid bars (Radiator support) under the front end, but some care in driving will solve that problem.

Finally, if you use A/S tires you'll have decent traction in snow, but the low front end means you'll be driving a snow plow if it's deeper than about 3".

Those are issues you need to work around, but for us they are inconveniences but not deal-breakers on owning the car.

 

My first Long road trip ever in any car was in May 2017 with the C7 from MA to Fl and back.
I put in a lot of Way Points in the NAV for Gas, Hotels, and a few more specifically to avoid going through city's like DC and Atlanta.
Planned on 4 days driving with 3 Hotel stops with the 1st Hotel in MD, then Hotel in NC viewing the Smoky Mountains, then Valdosta Georgia.
But reached the 3rd Hotel stop in Valdosta earlier than I expected at 2:30 PM and only 4 hours from my destination.
So instead of staying the night I had something to eat and continued driving.
Including a couple short side trips, put on about 3,800 miles round trip, and all I can say is the C7 Corvette is an Excellent Touring car

 

Been taking Corvettes on long trips since January of 1990. I make several 1500 mile trips annually and one long one, generally around 5,000 miles - 2016 was from Dallas to Canada, going one way, coming back another - wonderful road cars..2017 was to Portland, Oregon, again, going one way, coming back another -. my C7 has almost 85,000 miles on the odometer......... just do it!

 

During the past seven years I've driven the coast highway from AZ to OR, and traversed the country on routes 10, 40, and 70. Each trip was done in a Lexus and all were flawless. This summer, if I go cross country again, I want to travel east on route 80, and return west on 90. Two old friends are full time into RVing, and one has a C7. Both advised not to take the C7 on rte. 80 east from Nebraska on due to lousy roads. Probably will take the Lexus once again.