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 ******* 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 **** 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.

 

****.. 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 ****, 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 **** 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