Salt from roads

[Bally]

How long before this stuff does damage to your paint? i havnt been too motivated to wash my car because it seems like we get snow every week now.

[NLR]

I'm not sure how long it would take to start damaging the paint, but you also have to make sure that you flush your wheel wells and underbody frequently if you drive on salt covered roads, making sure you get to all the hard to reach places. Failure to do this will result in eventual rust and corrosion that will literally start to eat your car away.

[SilverStreak]

Good advice, NLR. Take a hose, strong pressure, and with your hand, gently guide it along the ridge inside the wheel-well, you'd be surprised the crap that comes out.

If you don't have time for a full wash, hose your car down. It won't wash all the salt off, but if time is limited, and the roads are still full of salt and slush, hose your car off once a week, it'll get some of it off, in the meantime before you wash it...

Nothing like spending 2 hrs washing your car only to drive it for 5 mins and get it all salted up again...

[Bally]

yea hopefully this is the end of snow for the winter, im sick of it

[SilverStreak]

You and me, both! We're getting a little dash this afternoon, they say, up here... :mad: