Use a leaf blower to blow the rain off your car. As someone posted before, using towels or a california water blade can drag the dirt that's on your car with the rain water. If you wash it, the dirt has been rinsed off and it's just the clean water.

 

if you dry your car off, w/o washing it, you will cause marring most likely

 

if somehow i got a little water on the car, i'd just wash it off (then i'd dry it to prevent water marks). i usually get away with just washing once every two weeks 'cause i don't intentionally drive when i know it will rain...

 

I like the leaf blower idea, wonder what the wife would say if I was in the garage with the hair dryer..., she already calls herself the vtec widow..., :-)

 

Rain, what's that! Heaven forbid my S ever be out in the rain. The only water it sees is wash day.

 

Dry it? I don't even let mine go outside!

 

if you do a good wax it wouldn't cause any water spots.....I did a good wax on my car, drove it in the rain the next day, parked it in the garage, and came out the next day with no water spots.

 

better if you wash it down before you dry since dirt and the rain water will leave scratches in the paint? correct me if im wrong, not to sure

 

better to have water marks than a crapload of swirl marks.

 

hahha here in hawaii it rains almost everday now didnt wash my beauty for about 2 weeks!! + i parked under a tree on campus and got a load of tiny leaves on my car and it rained so it stuck on it. nothing a little vtec couldnt cure lol but yeah gonna wash it on sat b4 the s2k cruz!!!