I guess this post could be about car handling as well as how it copes in the wet weather.
For me a buggy owner, I haven't got my soft top made yet so , we don't venture out in the wet that much. But I reckon with my mud tyres the wetter
it gets the better
My 1303 is great in the wet..... it handles it often in a slightly sideways manner.... lol but I fixed that with new tyres.
My only complaint about wet weather is that I have a small leak around the windscreen seal, and that the quarter vent windows dont sit properly in
their 33 year old rubbers anymore...
But apart from that its great 
I have silicone wiper blades on it, which
were the best $12 I ever spent.... even with a dodgy, scratched windscreen they work really well.
i get wet!
the floor gets wet!
the carpet gets soggy!
the guages fill up with water!
the stereo stops!
the glove box gets flooded!
the windows fog up!
the steering wheel gets slippery!
and it handles a lil' too well, cause it won't go sideways!
i hate the wet.:cussing
torsion rubbers sqweak, my brakes get worse. waters seeps in thru the QRT windows, stereo gets water in it.water comes into the footwells if i go
thru a big puddle. pretty much driving in heavy rain i may as well be sitting outside in a mild spot of rain cause i end up getting wet anyway.
and it doesnt reallyu handle like a champ either lol.
My wiper don't work super, but the car stays dry for the most part. The top only leaks in one or two spots and there is a small leak under the
windscreen, but fixing it would involved silastic and I hate the stuff, never goes where you want and is a nightmare to get off. Mostly I just stuff a
rag in where the water comes through and it stops the leak. Big puddles mean water in the car, and the aircleaner can soak up the water too much too.
If I leave it out in the rain I stick a platic bag over the top.
You asked something about handling too. Goes kinda like this in the wet...
understeer, understeer, understeer, WOAH!!! power oversteer! :P
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My cabrio handles like a dream ...... love the sound of the pitter patter rain on the soft top, as for my oval that would be another story!!!! Haven't tried her out in the rain, but seeing that she has bald tyres and no windscreen wipers I don't think she would do too well?
My cab goes as well as a Vw can in wet weather, it seems to handle wet a lot better than my old '72 model did in the UK-probably the more modern style suspension. The buggy on the other hand is OK as long as I have skinny tyres up front, I get wet of course but at least up here we have warm rain!! By the way the cab still has drum brakes all round so they are not that great to start with.
Im so over this rain...at least te entire eastcoast of NSW isnt in drought anymore
hey bruce your town would have seen a lot of traffic this morn, h/way blocked
so byron lennox ballina was the go as the paper truck said(sydney tele comes from brissy go figger)
as for vw handle my kombi wont slide wet or dry bummer
mildewed wally
Damn tucks, dont start me on truck drivers, all a bunch of knobs..and those roads cant handle trucks...
Damn tucks, dont start me on truck drivers, all a bunch of knobs..and those roads cant handle trucks...
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actually pete your right i have spun them once just after motor was done
in coffs waiting to turn right on a rainy day a break in traffic a quick acceleration & nothing what the i think then realise back wheels spinning
like mr T at a gay bar
now i take off in third gear
ahhhh!! the smell of mildewing carpet
mine gets a little shaky under heavy braking in the serious wet, but otherwise the smart car rubber handles the rain really well, even with the extra rear camber.
only experience i had in a bug driving in the wet was in a grassy paddock. Lets just say skiiing is very very fun. Bit chilli though when its the
middle of winder and its a convertible chop top and the windscreen is nothing but a welded on 'thick wire' mesh.
that was pretty kool though.
handles like a ricer
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posted by winerot actually pete your right i have spun them once just after motor was done in coffs waiting to turn right on a rainy day a break in traffic a quick acceleration & nothing what the i think then realise back wheels spinning like mr T at a gay bar now i take off in third gear |
Last time a group of us went out in the rain in our baja's and buggies. it was see how many time you could spin with crashing into anything and this
wasjust a 15 minute drive on our way to the bush......lol. I think Brian had two spins in the same roundabout.
So to anwser the question, they fun but don't work well :P:thumb
I leave my doors open in heavy down pours to let the water run out...
sideways when i push it and thats in the stock sbug, havent tried in chaos as he hasnt been on the road for a while
hey i look like a truckdriver. don't knock truckies. my old 69 type 3 wagon handled great.. IRS ETC. The 63 wagon handled fantastic in the dry .. stuck to the road like crazy but in the wet it slides sideways incredibly easy.. especially when you hit the paint.. the 58 beetle wouldn't go fast enough for me to judge. The 65 splitty with reduction hubs handles like a mouldy sack of potatoes with a steering wheel shoved in the bag and tied on with string.
Rain *shuddershudder* highway driving *shuddershudder* vw brakes in wet *shuddershudder* driving in slow lane on highway in wet with vw brakes
*shuddershudder*Trucks on highway monstering widdle dubs in rain when driving with vw brakes in slow lane *pfrrtoopsbrownstainsin undies*
:o oops sorry!
vw wipers in rain while driving on highway with vw brakes in slow lane with trucks monstering widdle dubs..... could be why so many dubs get mildew in
wet, years of accumulated poostain particles building up in lining... why do you think brown was such a common colour when designing the interior?
Forward thinking I say! 
Oh and the above applys also to general driving in traffic too! Man stoopid roundabouts, especiallt the ones with gardens and poles abd stuff in the
centre, how are you supposed to drive over all that stuff.. they just don't think of baja's do they.. 
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cornering is shit house,goes straight ahead then decides to turn,so its slowly slowly in the wet
My bus does great in the wet... as long as your not braking, acclerating, or turning. Many a time i've had the back end slide right out while the guy
in the car trying to overtake next to me in a corner poo himself and drop in behind... lucky one of my hobbies is powersliding so i just keep tootling
round, straighten up when im ready, then act like nothing happened... still not a good feeling in a kombi though
I think in the wet it's best when I pull over, put the kettle on, and watch the plebs run into each other
Being a Cab you'd think that these things would be wet as - completely the opposite. This is the driest bug I've driven. The top is glove tight, with maybe one drop getting through the inside of the side window - when I stop. I drop the window an inch to stop her fogging up, and off I go. Handling with the 135's up front is a matter of slight understeer....so just a matter of lifting off a little. An easy, dry car to drive.
On one of my road cars, which id a buggered baja, it has only front brakes and they are almost buggered. This makes driving fun!!!!
i recon my kombi was quite good. a bit of sideways action if you tweaked the throttle too hard coming out of a corner, and seems to find places to
aquaplane whenever i hit 100kph in good rain, buyt overall pretty imtressive. the type3 wagon is also real good, probably thanks to the 175s up front
and 195s in the rear, brakes arent amazing but certainlyno sliding woes, the only time she has ever broken away was in the dry yesterday around a far
too tight corner in 40deg heat, and i have a feeling it was the fronts that slid!
as for leaks, none in the type 3 whilst it is moving (well maybe a touch of spray form the front hoodlining) and the kombi only leaked form the
sunroof and the bolts that held the roofrack on
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you people need to get yourselves real cars... hahahah *running and ducking the stones and rocks and stick thrown by angry VW drivers....*
My 55 bug handles amazingly well in the wet. But then again, I've get new Continetals on the front and decent 225's on the rear... Yup, that means
no oversteering for me anymore (which is good and bad - not as interesting sometimes) No leaks from the rubbers, though randomly, water will sometimes
find it's way into my carpets. I'm still to find out why an where from..
I had a 72 bug once with wonderfully hard and cheap Hankook's on the back - I could compression lock the rears and drift it veeery easily. Wasn't as
dangerous as it sounds, the tyres were so crap, you didn't need to go fast to break traction.. hehe