Melbourne15

No garage queen here. Daily driven, thru mud, snow and with no regrets.

Skwerl

Sorry, it's winter and I only drive mine if it's between 65 and 75 degrees with 40% humidity or less and partially cloudy. (The sun is hard on the paint.)

MkC2S

what? I don't care how cold it is or raining, unless its heavy snowing are icing. I'm driving my baby.

pavster

I only drive mine in the wet 'cuz it's more fun this way.

Love the pic, mine looks far worse right now. Wanted to wash it today but went for a drive instead. Decided not to put on snow tires this year and drive on summers through the winter. Have to watch the forecast carefully to make sure I don't get caught out in a snow storm.

r_32

Those summers can be pretty sketchy in dry conditions if the temps drop too low. I would take a gander at your specs for the summers before driving them less than 45deg or so. I put on winters just for temps even though I don't drive it in snow or until a rain rinses the salt/chemicals off the road.
Moisture fine but chemicals and their corrosion effects are not. But I am jealous of folks w the kahonas to drive all year.

leon yagudayev

Joking?

mpath

Daily driver. Rained all week.

Skwerl

Yep. Seen a few too many posts lately of people who seem to think their Porsches are made of papier-mâché.

Edit: I'm up for anything but hail. I had it in for service at the dealer once and when I came to pick it up, it was starting to rain. The service guy asked if I wanted to hang out and wait till the rain was over. I was like, "uhhh....No, I can get it wet."

upier

Drive mine year round. Here it is sitting at work.

SnP

3 sets of tires and wheels

Super sports for summer, sport cups for track and blizzaks for winter.

Drive, rinse, repeat.

If I wanted garage art I'd put a picture of Jessica Alba in the spot next to my wife's car.

sc235813

all. year. round.

jdgamble

Been raining a lot in NorCal. Drove through mud and rocks from a washed out hill today. Sounded pretty bad but no evidence. I can't imagine not driving my 911 if it's available to me.

dbv1

Depends what your winter is like, it's a little worse up here. Example from last winter: I parked the car in the morning, snow-free. This about 6 hours later, after about 1.6 ft of snow:



You can't drive a car with 4'' of the ground clearance through that. And all the salt, gravel and crap just makes it really gross and leaves a mark on the car. Not quite the same as a little bit of rain here and there.

Comanche_699

"Little bit of rain here and there." Hahaha

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/1...tter-bay-area/

But I hear you about the snow. I'd probably drive mine in the snow anyway - I'd just wait until the roads were plowed, and maybe get some tires that were good below 40 degrees.

I've been driving mine like a warrior these past few weeks, and since I don't have a truck, I've also used it to haul about 20 bags of chipped stone to get my outdoor sump pump shored up, a new compressor for the garage with all the trimmings, and round tripped from SF to Vegas via Mojave, and then looped back through LA to help move a friend out of his place, ultimately hauling a MacPro, 2 displays with articulating arms, RAID & other external drives, 2 medium (Mackie) speakers, 2 big milk crates of coffee table books, a backpack filled with camera gear, some lighting stands, 2 tripods, my folded up windscreen, and a 5qt jug of 10/60 plus my own camera gear and a week's worth of luggage packing that little cab to the gills, back up here to Marin (After a quick obligatory pit-stop at the Porsche Experience Center in Carson).

I joked it was my "Work Truck" all week - top down 80% of the time, only putting it up when it was DUMPING rain or temps dipped into the 30's. Showers and "light" rain blows over the top as long as you're moving.

No point in rinsing Froggy off lately, seems no end in sight to the rain up here. Breaks now and then to throw a rainbow and then back to flooding the yard. Haha

Here's a few iPhone pix- been too busy to download any from the cameras, but Froggy gets DROVE every day. Handles like a 4s in the rain with 4 bags of chipped stone stacked in the frunk!

EDIT: tried to select a few pix from the trip but GT Mobile App apparently doesn't see the whole film roll, so I will have to add pix tomorrow. (Weird)

Anybody know why GT seems to randomly abbreviate your camera roll on iPhone? Is there a way to choose images from an album vs default "camera roll"?

Dan

tomc_mets

Apart from concerns about low temps (I drive on summer tires year round), I only stress about hail. If I lived further west of the dry line, I'd worry about wind, 'cause we have had our truck pelted with tumble weeds in a wind storm!

I was driving the Cali yesterday, which has pressure and temp sensors, and at 50 F ambient, the tires were up to 70 F in about a dozen highway miles, and low 80s F after about twice that distance. I thought that was interesting. Wish they had temp sensors in our 997s. So, the tires warm up quickly, but I save the twisty roads for warmer weather, and go gran turismo when it is cold (by Dallas standards) and need a 997 fix...T