for me its easy: my "baby" gets all attention it can get and its cash investet and mostly shined up. I just dont want to spoil all this due to an accident (worst) or being all messed up dirty.

but hey, car's not made of sugar...
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literal-LOL, tirwin.

Ode to Rainy 911 in Seuss minor...

I will drive her in the rain.
I will drive and feel no pain.
I will drive when roads aren't dry.
I will drive beneath cold grey sky.
I will drive her here or there.
I will drive most anywhere.
To stay at home, I can not stand.
No drive outside is the plan at hand.
Drive your Porsche! Today! Today!
Today, I say!
Without delay!



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But they are also not designed to last longer than 10 years under those conditions!

I live on a beachfront so the car gets a lot of salt air. Salt air blows in under the car and everything has a salty layer. So when it's raining I'm out there blasting through the biggest puddles really feeling it hit the bottom of the car to give it a good clean rinse.

911 and I have lived at the beach for 15 years and the amount of rust is very minimal, whereas Japon cars almost dissolve before your eyes ;)

Gulp, I know what you mean. I was driving through the countryside at speeds between 100mph and 120mph and there was a sign up saying surface flooding. I could see a few puddles on the side of the road and thought "flooding duh" and carried on. Argh I came over a slight rise and saw about 80 yards of water on the road. Luckily I had enough sense not to slam on the brakes but kept going. The 911 behaved really well and just kept going in a straight line as you can imagine, but it was a bit scarry.

the drive up and back were the worst


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For those of you getting heat stroke from the defroster, remember that (assuming you have it) you can run the A/C and the defroster at the same time. The A/C has the added benefit of removing a lot of the moisture from the air in the cabin. I daily drive my 84' Carrera in Portland and am typically more worried about rock chips than water.

As a Portland driver, I've noticed the ruts in the highway fill up in heavy rain and then you're hydroplaning all the time.