So I got off work, and it was POURING like a mother#ucker! The road is full of oil and is slippery like anything. I took it slow and drove UNDER the speed limit. I was afraid I might loose control and hurt my baby.

When I got off the highway, out of other car's way, I picked up a little speed. Every turn I took, even at pretty low speed, I was slipping (drifting?) and it was so frigging awesome!! I took the car to an empty parking lot and was going nuts!!!

Gosh, it was fun when there's no cars and median around me. When I was on the highway, I was scared shitless.

PS. Time for rain/snow tires. =[

 

Now try it with the VSA off.

 

i found my Ap1 abolutely normal to drive in rain. With decent tires no problem whatsoever. Most of the paranoya is inflicted by internet muppets who cannt drive a shopping cart across wallmart parking lot. My .02

 

are your tires bald?

 

And there are people who swear they're good enough drivers to run bald S02s on snow without a problem.

I disagree with them, too.

 

does sliding the car while the road is wet effect the tire life much at all? Just curious cause I dont wanna ruin my brand new tires

 

Nope. They're stock Potenza? tires. Has about 3500 miles on them.

 

This stupid phobia of driving the S in the rain with street rubber is ridiculous. All you have to do is not lean on the rubber for grip, drive slow and rely on gravity for grip.

There are POS 1950's cars with bold tires driving in tropical rains in third world countries everywhere, every day.

 

Why? I don't get this effect with my 05 (no stability control) in the rain on 12k mile tires. What was the temperature? Below 40?

 

i was driving on a raining day recently too, and my end was losing a bit when im going out of a corner, car have 3900 miles on it and VSA was on, but i did turn it off to have fun later that day.