It's a disgrace

[KJZ28]

Originally Posted by Camaro85

My 02 that is 15 years old and going on it's 8th winter. the appearance of your car, depends on how well you maintain and take care of it.

I agree, if you wash it regularly in the winter you can keep the cars clean. Case in point, my Brother and my Father both had 2001 Jeep Cherokees, my Dad washed the underside maybe a couple times in the winter, my brother did it about 4 times a month. By 2010 My Brother's Jeep looked pretty much rust free, my dads looked like it sat in an ocean, shock mount rusted and broke, holes all over the place, exhaust rotted out, etc.

[terry_b]

Originally Posted by sherob

Life is too short to drive shit boxes!

ABSOLUTELY!

My buddy at work is currently agonizing over his car situation. he has a very nice VW golf "R" that sits in his parent's garage all winter. He drives a beater subaru outback - that just had a whole slew of mechanical issues in cascading failure. Now he's thinking about saving some money and selling both the VW and the subaru and getting a "sensible" car to drive year round

[rontammy0]

If the Camaro was my only means of transportation then I would drive it alot more. I have suvs for the winter. My car is in the garage right now. But please people just because i dont dd doesnt mean its a garage queen.

[Jayjellyfish212]

Originally Posted by Jayjellyfish212

Those damn soccer moms are a hazard to us all!

I live not far from a elementary school and the road is 35mph.. usually traffic flows at 40-45 at rush hours ... f-ing soccer moms that are actually going to the school drive 55-65 in a 35mph zone and then pull in the elementary school.. they also beep and flip people off etc. regularly when they are the ones driving like shit and and act like everyone else is at fault.. if they ever hit my camaro I'm giving them a pump and dump in the mouth and selling their over achiever brat ass kid on Craig's list!!!

[JLSuperfly]

Originally Posted by CamaroFred

Even on a perfect day.

I like soccer moms, especially the cute ones.

[Mr. Wyndham]

Originally Posted by AGC70

I live in Maine and where I live just received 27" of snow from one storm. All psyched up I got the snowmobiles running and trailered them down to the corner gas station. I pull in and there is a dude in a 16 or 17 Camaro SS completely covered in salt and sand really? Man put that thing away and get a shitbox truck for the winter. Maybe that was his winter beater and has a Lamborghini for the summer lol

I daily drive my car through that every winter here in Buffalo.

No Lambo for the summer...

Just takes good maintenance practices, and a willingness to DRIVE the car.

[Ryanbabz71]

Reason why I don't DD mine






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[Cyber10]

Eh I drive mine to work everyday and it doesn't bother me. It stays inside when I'm not driving it but I'm not afraid to take it out into the snow or rain.

Plus I wash my car every Sunday, and if there's a lot of salt on the roads after a heavy snow I'll wash it more often than once a week so salt isn't sitting on the car for very long.

[Ryanbabz71]

At 5 degs out it will be a few days before I am spraying off my truck :(


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[Cyber10]

Originally Posted by Ryanbabz71

At 5 degs out it will be a few days before I am spraying off my truck :(


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I'm fortunate enough to have an indoor wash bay at our shop I can use whenever, otherwise I'd be right there with you not spraying my car off either lol. These last 2 days have been brutal, feels like we're below zero.

[sherob]

-2* when I started my truck to go to work this morning.

[NC_SS]

Originally Posted by Mr. Wyndham

I daily drive my car through that every winter here in Buffalo.

No Lambo for the summer...

Just takes good maintenance practices, and a willingness to DRIVE the car.

Even the few times my car has been caught on salty roads I almost immediately do an underbody wash

Then again I live in the south so salty roads happen like twice a year so that's the only time it's not on the road

[Camaro85]

Originally Posted by terry_b

I daily drive my 1LE... rain, shine, mud, salt, snow... doesn't matter. Until recently, I even drove it 160 miles round trip commuting to work. My windshield is pitted and chipped, I have rock chips in the paint and hood vinyl and the front splitter is nowhere near smooth. My car is sitting in the parking lot now with sand/salt/snow on it.

Some people act like it's the worst thing ever to actually drive the car. Every. single. person I meet at work who learns I daily drive it all winter asks "why don't you get a beater?"

Why? Why in the world would I spend $40k on a garage decoration? It's bad enough my motorcycle doesn't get out in the winter, I just couldn't imagine having a car that couldn't see weather.

One of my co-workers snagged a hellcat challenger a couple years ago. He traded an early production Challenger R/T for it that had less than 5k miles. The first time he drove it to work and it rained I thought he was going to pull his hair out!

I can't imagine driving a shitbox around daily. For one, the camaro does great in the snow; second, the shitbox is just going to be a money pit; third, I ENJOY EVERY MINUTE OF EVEN THE SHORTEST DRIVE.

Sometime in the future I'll probably trade up to a 6th gen and start "destroying" (driving) it.

That's not to say I don't appreciate you fair weather guys. Down the road when I'm looking for another 5th gen I'm going to look here first and find the "low miles, garage kept" cars that you guys never got to fully enjoy By the way, I drove my car out of a showroom... It will likely never be that condition again...

EDIT: It should go without saying that everyone paid for their cars, and thus, nobody gets to tell you what to do with your own car. However, saying that it's "disgraceful" to daily these cars is just insulting. Just because my car is driven daily doesn't mean I don't take good care of it otherwise.

[rontammy0]

Originally Posted by Camaro85

Kinda like saying just because my car is garaged in the winter that I dont enjoy it......no where new close.