Is it weird that it feels so good?

[Jan Olsson]

Early snow, about 12 inches already and about 25F outside.

The retards maintaining the roads here in Sweden are as usual destroying perfectly good roads (snow/ice) with road salt, thus making driving a dirty and dangerous business (mud, grime, low visibility), they are also lobbying hard to make studded tires illegal with the motivation that all new cars have stability systems (!). The REAL reason is that the salt combined with studs wear out the road about 7 times as fast as if they didn't use the salt at all.

Back to topic. Since they use the salt I really like to wash of the dirt whenever it is possible. My neighbors rarely seem to wash their cars with the motivation "they get dirty again anyway". Well they drive Fords, Renaults and VWs. If I had a car like that I wouldn't care to much either

Today I washed my wife's Jeep Wrangler. 25F and only cold water available but it works if you are stubborn, better do this once in a while than to regret your neglect when the spring comes and the rust are marching through the steel everywhere...

I could see the neighbors hiding behind their curtains, watching me wash the car

[Texas Jim]

I think washing them in the winter is a very smart thing to do...ESPECIALLY if they use salt on the roads...

[BodybyFisher]

I had done this poll a while back about washing your car

http://caddyinfo.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=13266&st=0&p=101804&hl=wash%20your%20car&fromsearch=1entry101804

[Jan Olsson]

I'll post over there then!

[Cadillac Jim]

I believe that it's important not to leave salt ice caked under the car, as well. Not only does that cause body rust, it causes undercar problems like rusted-out brake lines, electrical problems, and suspension problems. Let them look.

[BodybyFisher]

Most good car washers these days perform an undercarriage wash/spray to get salt off the undercarriage.

I recently worked on an I30, they dont care about its appearance, the undercarriage was rusted to hell

[KHE]

Most good car washers these days perform an undercarriage wash/spray to get salt off the undercarriage.

Many carwashes recycle the water but the filters don't remove the salt so they clean the cars with saltwater.

[Jan Olsson]

Most good car washers these days perform an undercarriage wash/spray to get salt off the undercarriage.

Many car washes recycle the water but the filters don't remove the salt so they clean the cars with saltwater.

Exactly! For 15 years ago or so over here, one could choose to have an undercarriage wash without the brushes on the rest of the car. These days you have to buy an entire washing program whether you want it or not. I stopped using automated car washes for good when I discovered that most of them have salt water in their systems due to neglect. The automated washes that don't use brushes instead use high pH cleaning agents that ruins the paint with time.

High pressure washes presses water through the under-coating, water at normal pressure doesn’t.

My experience is that Jeeps and Cadillacs use better steel than European car makers. Probably a higher carbon grade or/and better processes to eliminate oxygen when recycling old steel. The paint job and the relatively few weld spots/seams also help keeping the car free from rust.