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Way to ruin a C7; driving on salted roads in winter. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it. I had to do a double take. Corvette owners around here don't typically drive their car in winter.
Some would same the same about a Corvette that never gets driven. Then again some would say it's none of their business and carry on with their own life.
Absolutely! I actually park my C7 in the garage during the winter, but my C3 which I bought used & drove for another 15 years, I drove it into the city all year round. On summer radials back then. But with 220 HP it it didn't slide around too much.
My son puts winter tires on his Mustang & drives it to work all year round also.
Way to ruin a C7; driving on salted roads in winter. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it. I had to do a double take. Corvette owners around here don't typically drive their car in winter.
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We bought a new C5 in 2001, and had a second set of (winter) tires waiting when I got it home. Switched tires every Fall and Spring.
Used it as my DD including to-from work and parked at the airport while I was gone on trips.
When traded at 5 yrs/66k miles, the paint looked about the same as any other summer-only C5 with those years and miles.
Underside had some corrosion on the aluminum but nothing serious, steel nuts/bolts/etc had noticeable rust but still serviceable. Got normal trade-in value for it.
After experiencing what salt does to cars in the import world I don't even leave the garage open when they salt the road here.
But at the end of the day the C7 doesn't have a lot of critical areas that would rust, nor is it a particularly rare car so...
Right after the recent snow fall in ATL, "parked" near each other, I saw a C6Z, C7 and C8Z all wrecked that weekend. Wide tires and ice are a bad combo.
Sacrilege
