Cleaning salt under Elie.

We were dumped with a foot of snow yesterday. Needless to say our roads are loaded with salt. Is the car wash the only option to getting all the salt under the Elie? Are there other options. I can just feel the salt starting to corrode. Eewww :???:

Take Ellie to the quarter car wash and blast it with soap then rinse water. If you clean out the front end and rear axle areas with soapy water first, then rinse,
it'll get most of the salt off. I do this every so often when weather permits to keep the salt from causing excess corrosion.

So far my SOP looks like new underneath, despite Ohio winter weather. :D

Suit up in some rain gear & slide underneath with a hose. That's about the only way besides your local car wash. It sucks but if you don't want to use the car wash then...

Most all the drive through car washes have a "bottom blaster". I blasted mine today.

Most all the drive through car washes have a "bottom blaster". I blasted mine today.

Thats probably what I'll do. I just wanted to make sure it was the best option. Gotta keep her clean.

Yeah, I hate taking any of my cars though the auto washes, I prefer to always do it by hand, but about once or twice a year, I will take both cars through a touchless wash just to get the bottom blasted out.

I use a lawn sprinkler. The kind that waves back and forth. I slide it underneath and turn it on. I let it go for 5-10 minutes under the front then move it to the rear. Works great. Learned that trick from years ago when I went off-roading and needed to clean the mud out from underneath my truck.

Ditto the lawn sprinkler idea - been doing that for years...

80 degrees here and no Ice problems:cool:

We live in a ice and salt environment up here, but I did notice on the way home last night from Cape Cod, that there is alot more salt usage on the roads then we do in Canada...
Up here they use a calcium chloride brine that is very good for the environment (and vehicles), and because it's applied wet to the roads, it's very effective.

Now, that being said, I've never really had a problem with salt accumulations in the past. you have to remember that salt 'melts' in water, so it doesn't take much water to rinse it off. I usually just wait until spring, and drive thru the puddles...

I was really happy being in Cape Cod this weekend! All the heavy rain caused major flooding - no more salt on my undercarriage! (or the doors, wheel wells, windows, and even the roof!)