What do you do when your car gets rain on it
 

I have had my FC for about 2 years. Today it got rain on it. I had fun driving it in the rain and playing with the roundabouts. When I got it back in the garage though I wasn't quite sure about how to manage the rain water. I ended up hosing it off well and then drying with microfiber. I didn't want road-grime and acid rain to stay on it. do you guys do anything special when rainwater gets on your FC?

Not I.

i park the stupid thing.

i never worry about my car to the extent of "acid rain" killing the paint even if i just got it back from the spray booth.

just about anything can be buffed out, it gets waxed about 2 times a year, that's plenty.

it really just depends on you though, i don't have time to wash my car after every 15 minute drive so it gets washed every few months.

My tip: Don't lean on the car when it gets rain on it.

You shouldn't be concerned about rain water. Most people leave their cars outside full-time.

Mike, most of us live in places that it rains more than twice a year. LOL We just drive them, wash them, and wax them occasionally. Repeat as needed. Heh.

my sunrise red paint looked like turd brown from sitting in los angeles for 10 years of it's life so i guess i really wasn't too worried about it, it all buffed out and more resembles it's original color but i do plan on repainting it soon. even then i doubt i will worry about paint fading or crap getting on it periodically, it's going to get dirty so i just enjoy the car versus trying to keep it in showroom condition.

the worst thing i worry about is a transmission tipping over onto the driver's door to match the passenger door...

pat yourselves on the back, you're nicer than teh porsche guys

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforum...ain-on-it.html

Take pictures of it because the paints looks nicer. lol.

wow...porsche owners really are anal.....I thought it wasnt true haha
I would DD a GT3 or turbo just to piss off the anal ones.

When it rain, thats about the only time my car is getting a car wash :)

The hose water you sprayed on it is probably way worse for it than the rain water can be With all the crap they put in city water nowadays. lol

unfortunately that is probably true, hard water from the tap water is more likely to leave mineral deposits which are worse than anything that falls from the sky.

don't park your car next to your sprinklers for a few weeks or you will see what i mean.

Mike, IMMEDIATELY use your heated de-ionized water tap with a ph neutral soap. After a thorough drying; roll into the hermetically sealed chamber and draw a .35" Hg Absolute pressure on the chamber to vaporize any remaining water. You know the rules!

i don't really understand the question. here in oregon at least 50% of my driving is in the rain. so i guess what i do when my car gets rain on it is wear a jacket?

My car once saw some rainclouds and I had to put it down.
Someone should make a vehicle that can withstand water, that would be awesome.

I driver faster. the track car doesn't usually have wipers.

It's a bit of a parody of this thread: http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforum...ain-on-it.html

To answer the question though, I wash the car every few months maybe. I keep it in a garage when I'm not driving it and I don't drive it in the rain unless I happen to get caught in it. When a car gets this old the sun and rain will age it quickly. My old GTU was a daily driver and that sat in the rain.

Porsche owners...... the most egotistical elitist assholes out there, almost as bad as rotary freaks.

damn. i thought mike hit his head

ours does! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV3wU4M3aSY

i don't think you can see it there, but the passenger floorboard is under water

one of my gym friends drives a Ferrari 430, and his RAIN car is a porsche turbo.... OOoooor we can't use the PH neutral soap AND de-ionized water, it doesn't pass smog!

Hmm... Should be when rainwater doesn't get on the car. ;) [Yay~ Oregon]

you could never have a porsche, you'd have Dr Porsche (its an honorary doctorate) spinning in his grave!

There are a lot of cool Porsche owners. I've hung out with the local Porsche club some. I have seen many more M3 douchebags.

Around here, they dont even give you the time of day! I pulled up next to one in traffic one day, it was a NIIIIIIIICE 911 turbo. Seeing as we had been window to window for a while, I looked over and said "Hey man, that's a beautiful machine." He just looked at me, gave no expression and turned away saying nothing. Not even a "thanks man!" Rude. I've had similar experiences from others as well...

Nothing is worse than the jetta douchebag club in my area. Fucking kids think it's cool to race around the parking lot with the E up so they can spin tire, only to park right where they are doing it and eat at applebees. No respect what so ever.

A classic "kids these days" mini-rant

considering my FC is still not yet running, and it sits outside my brother's house, and about a month ago i (literally) could not reach it because of all the snow on and around it, i'd hardly worry about rain.

shortly after buying my Rx-8, i would pay attention to cleaning it after rain, but i don't any more. it stays garaged more often than not though, so ....

it's funny ... i've found more asshole Audi owners, in that respect, than Porsche owners. the few i've had to deal with were actually pretty cool.

I NEVER drive my car in the rain and never will. Even if it looks like it might rain that day or thw weather man says theres 20% nope not pulling it out. I wash under my car. 4 jack stands, high in the air yes scrubbing the underneith. This was when my car wasn't even restored, now when its done IDK wtf im going to do....freak out when i drive it lol. Another reason i dont drive it in the rain is i have to put the top up and that just sucks. I just leave it down forever.

^Sorry but thats just dumb, IMO.

Yea, to most people. But you probably have NO WERE NEAR as much time as i have in the body of my car.... IDK if you live near the "hood" or not but getting your top slashed sucks. My best friends just got slashed on his S2k and it was right down th street from my house..

Driving to work this morning in the rain I saw many porsches(thinking of this thread), new, classic, driving in the rain. I mean c'mon, it's water, not snow or mud. Unless you car is a Trailer Queen showcar, I see no reason to do anything special when your car get's rained on.

I use my windshield wipers, just got a new set the other day!

OP has a serious case of OCD.

its not as much the rain, god knows I wash the car enough, its the shit on the roads under the car, hate it.

I put my wiper arms on when then are storm clouds near, but i've been caught a couple times in the rain without them. local track is fairly high speed so not having them isn't that detrimental.

I try to avoid the rain because it is extremely dangerous when you have a turbo upgrade and tires that aren't meant for wet traction. As soon as it gets into boost you are all over the road.

for those of us that use the seven as a weekend car WHY would we drive in the rain? whats the purpose?

thats why its a weekend car, it comes out on nice weekends, when it rains drive something else

i don't disagree. with an HKS EVC i use a lower boost setting with a slower rising boost. seems to do alright.

Did you post that same stupid question in two different forums and just change the car?
Both questions are identical. Both times it was ridiculous.
Wash you car and figure out which one you drove in the rain yesterday.

Shit.. I get mad. Cuz when rain water gets on my car, it usually gets inside. Which gets on me. :(

Would love to have my fc as my weekend car.
Daily driving a fc is pretty epic.
Spun out once in the rain actually.
So when it rains, I use rain x and beach towels to dry it up.

I drive my fc and fd in the rain and snow and i put tons of hours of work into them but who cares it's a car the purpose of them is to get me from point A to point B.

Im pretty sure J9 was posting the question that someone else posted over there and here changing the car, I dont even think J9 even owns a can of wax, lol

Exactly. That's how most FD owners do it. I daily drove my '88 GTU for 3 years but then I got a T2 and a newer more comfortable daily driver.

It's rain. I shrug and think "Huh, it just rained" then go about my business. It's a car. If it can't be driven in the rain, what's the point?

Drift! Then wax/detail it... What do you when you have hailstones on it? Move back to Fla...

lol You seriously need to learn how to drive if you spun out in the rain. I drove my old fc all winter on shitty summer tires, not once did I loose control.


I'm thinking along the same lines for when I get my nice FC done... I think I'll be more content just looking at it and not driving it, just not to risk anything happening to it lol.

driving in the rain is the shit, i dont know why ppl complain about it.

i mean yea my paint is faded, and yea my defrost dont work, i just leave the window down a crack and wipe the windshield with a cloth ever 5min cuz i have an exhaust leak that i coming up from my shifter and i have no shifter boot so that windshield fogs like a bitch. but you know what, its all worth it when the superior handing of my car helps me manage hydroplaning. i still shit bricks from time to time cuz when that happens with no P/S it can be scary...


lol wait.. what were we talking about?

end rant.

People are crazy! Rain doesn't do anything, unless maybe if you live in L.A.

What it comes down to is when the weather is super shitty (all winter in the NW), you're just not going to be able to wash your car like you should so the filth is just going to pile on.

Your car isn't going to melt or even rust at all. Letting your car SIT outside in the rain for months at a time is a completely different story.

us californians picture you canadians just happy its raining and not snowing!

i do too! i even used it once last year!

wrong! i thought it was ridiculous too, and i wondered what the Rx7 people would say. except for you, the rx7 people were nicer

yes otherwise ZEE germans will send you to a forced labor camp in eastern europe to build AUDIS