CRVPiggy
06-21-2007, 06:02 PM
Sorry that this post might be a little long, but I feel like I have to share this entire story. My husband and I both recently got new vehicles (he got a Suburban) and we are on vacation at OBX (the Outer Banks of North Carolina, for those of you not familiar with the area.) Since they were both new to us, we were itching to drive them on the beach, and we were able to get up to Corolla's beach access (there are wild horses that roam that beach, and sometimes they're walking down the same beach you're driving down. Its breathtaking.) My husband took his big ole bus (Suburban) first. It rumbled its way down the beach, for as heavy as it is.
As we were exiting the beach to go and get my V, we saw a second gen 4WD pulled over on the side. We stopped to ask the owners how it drove on the beach, telling them we were going back to get mine to take it out. The woman that was there went into hysterics. She started flailing her arms around, yelling at us not to do it because it would "rip out your entire undercarriage!" We were a little surprised with her reaction, because we couldn't see anything wrong with her V, and because all the other times I've taken my V off road it has handled it like a champ. We decided to take my V out anyway (because we couldn't see anything wrong, and because they didn't seem like they knew didn't really have any experience driving on the beach). I was not surprised at all when my V didn't even bat an eye at the sand. It zipped up and down the shoreline without even slowing down. By the time that we got back off the beach the other V had already been towed, so I wasn't able to ask the crazy woman what she had done to mess her V up. I didn't really have an reservations about taking my V anywhere before, but I definetly confident in its abilities to take me anywhere that I want to go now. We are here for a few more days, and will be taking it out again, so I will get some pics and post them later. So, don't be afraid to take your V off the road and grass and onto the beach! ;)
As we were exiting the beach to go and get my V, we saw a second gen 4WD pulled over on the side. We stopped to ask the owners how it drove on the beach, telling them we were going back to get mine to take it out. The woman that was there went into hysterics. She started flailing her arms around, yelling at us not to do it because it would "rip out your entire undercarriage!" We were a little surprised with her reaction, because we couldn't see anything wrong with her V, and because all the other times I've taken my V off road it has handled it like a champ. We decided to take my V out anyway (because we couldn't see anything wrong, and because they didn't seem like they knew didn't really have any experience driving on the beach). I was not surprised at all when my V didn't even bat an eye at the sand. It zipped up and down the shoreline without even slowing down. By the time that we got back off the beach the other V had already been towed, so I wasn't able to ask the crazy woman what she had done to mess her V up. I didn't really have an reservations about taking my V anywhere before, but I definetly confident in its abilities to take me anywhere that I want to go now. We are here for a few more days, and will be taking it out again, so I will get some pics and post them later. So, don't be afraid to take your V off the road and grass and onto the beach! ;)