Rain
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Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Wellsboro Pa
Drove mine from northern Pa to southern Florida this year and last year. Guess what? The car came equipped with windshielf wipers and the work. I won't drive it if I know that there is going to be a storm but if I'm on a trip there's little that I can do to avoid it being in the rain.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Austin TX
Burning Brakes
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From: Austin TX
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jul 2006
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From: Silver Spring MD
It Won't Melt
Do you want a CAR or a MUSEUM PIECE. Even Jay Leno DRIVES his cars or more correctly HAS THEM DRIVEN so that they don't dry rot.
What do you think the WINDSHIELD WIPERS are for?
Drive it don't mount and stuff it.
BIGHANK
What do you think the WINDSHIELD WIPERS are for?
Drive it don't mount and stuff it.
BIGHANK
Racer
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 370
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From: Fort Wayne Indiana
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: Ewing NJ
My C5 has gotten my home from work during several snow storms (credit to the Pilot Sport A/S tires). The only thing I do during the winter is take it to the car wash to get the salt off the undercarriage. (Otherwise I wash it myself.) Mine's a DD, so the rain doesn't bother me.
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Instructor
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 128
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From: North Providence RI
If you drive only when its not raining, does that mean you never have to wash your car? NO it still gets dirty..and so will the underside, wheel well,..etc.
You paid enough for it...enjoy it! .... and wash it
You paid enough for it...enjoy it! .... and wash it
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From: Edmond ok
Pro
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From: 15 miles south from the Raisin Capitol of the World Caifornia
I will drive mine in the rain if I need to. Our DD is a MB SLK320 and the people where my wife works think we are both out of our minds for driving our cars as much as we do. Sports cars are disigned to be driven.
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delivery from the factory, the time sitting on a dealers lot and
the buyers garage.
No such animal as a non-rain (wet ) vette.
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Race Director
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 13,421
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From: Lake Mary Florida
Oh lord, I just drove home in a blinding thunderstorm. It's ok, we made it safely but now the Vette is all wet! The underneath even!
Last edited by Jet-Jock; Jun 13, 2007 at 05:47 PM.
Drifting
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,686
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From: Florida, Hell's Doorstep
So first off I'm curious for all those who say they don't drive in the rain. Do you ever take your Vette on a long trip or any sort of trip away from home? How can you avoid rain or whatever when your on a trip, can't find the nearest garage and hide? Sorry I don't understand this. Rain or anything won't hurt these vehicles.
I have an '01 vert that is spotless underneath and inside and out. It is also a daily driver and it see's it's share of rain. When you wash the vehicle just hose off the underneath. It will be fine. Both times I've had it in for an oil change I go underneath the vehicle to see how it is doing, it remains spotless and that is after driving on a 1100 mile trip, through rain, and ice and some snow. Through hordes of love bugs and other kinds of bugs. Just clean it up afterwards and no one will know the difference. If it makes you happy then say oh it's never seen rain.
FYIW, when the vehicles leave the last stage of the assembly line, they are taken across a set of bumps into an area to have the head lights aligned and the front end aligned. Afterwards they are moved to a testing bay where they are checked while run up. After that they leave that station for one of the final stations which is the leak test station. The vehicle is flooded with water from all directions then taken outside for a run around a track and parked in the parking lot assuming no issues arise. Oh yes I know this sounds horrible, that beauty that has never seen rain saw water just as it was born, then run around a track and parked outside in the elements until it got scheduled to be shipped. And worst yet, the vehicle had to travel on a truck no less, through all kinds of weather just to get to the dealer where it sat outside in the heat and cold and rain and everything else before you or someone else bought it.
Drive your Vette it's not going to be hurt by weather. If you want to maintain it like many others, just wash and detail it to the nth degree. No one will know the difference.
I have an '01 vert that is spotless underneath and inside and out. It is also a daily driver and it see's it's share of rain. When you wash the vehicle just hose off the underneath. It will be fine. Both times I've had it in for an oil change I go underneath the vehicle to see how it is doing, it remains spotless and that is after driving on a 1100 mile trip, through rain, and ice and some snow. Through hordes of love bugs and other kinds of bugs. Just clean it up afterwards and no one will know the difference. If it makes you happy then say oh it's never seen rain.
FYIW, when the vehicles leave the last stage of the assembly line, they are taken across a set of bumps into an area to have the head lights aligned and the front end aligned. Afterwards they are moved to a testing bay where they are checked while run up. After that they leave that station for one of the final stations which is the leak test station. The vehicle is flooded with water from all directions then taken outside for a run around a track and parked in the parking lot assuming no issues arise. Oh yes I know this sounds horrible, that beauty that has never seen rain saw water just as it was born, then run around a track and parked outside in the elements until it got scheduled to be shipped. And worst yet, the vehicle had to travel on a truck no less, through all kinds of weather just to get to the dealer where it sat outside in the heat and cold and rain and everything else before you or someone else bought it.
Drive your Vette it's not going to be hurt by weather. If you want to maintain it like many others, just wash and detail it to the nth degree. No one will know the difference.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Los Angeles
Race Director
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 13,421
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From: Lake Mary Florida
Rats, I found a leak! Torrential downpour of rain today, I guess the weatherstrip couldn't keep all that water out and it ran along the door seam to the seat belt area.
Last edited by Jet-Jock; Jun 13, 2007 at 06:59 PM.
