Gravel Roads

[aussie_eagle2512]

On a few occasions I have taken my 1997 EP91 Starlet onto gravel roads in the mountains, and the car seems to manage pretty good but I was just wondering if its "recommended" that Starlets are taken on these saught of roads for any length of time.

A couple of times I could feel the car drifting a bit which had me a bit worried, and those tractor tracks had the car bumping like crazy

I used some initiative though and left the manual trans in 2nd gear for most of the trip (was a hilly dirt road), didn't seem to struggle up the hills at all.

[69.NIX]

On a few occasions I have taken my 1997 EP91 Starlet onto gravel roads in the mountains, and the car seems to manage pretty good but I was just wondering if its "recommended" that Starlets are taken on these saught of roads for any length of time.

A couple of times I could feel the car drifting a bit which had me a bit worried, and those tractor tracks had the car bumping like crazy

I used some initiative though and left the manual trans in 2nd gear for most of the trip (was a hilly dirt road), didn't seem to struggle up the hills at all.

if it's good smooth dirt, any car shouldn't have a problem. if you try $WD driving with it, you might run into problems :P

oh and after, give a good wash to remove all that dust you build up

[ross johnson]

i race a paseo in rallies an on the track its a very competitive an strong car

[theDefiant1]

The car should be fine, but my concern is, well... you. If you don't know how to control the car on gravel, be damned careful and drive "within yourself". Once you've lost control on gravel, byebye.

[Paseoftw]

well, i drive my paseo on a gravel road everyday

it doesnt suffer much

and due to this im pretty confident with back end movment

so as far as i can tell it doesnt suffer from the rough road

but then again its a toyota, i never expected it to :P