[Element Art]

Here's my public service announcement: Wash your Element often in the winter depending on salty roads and sticky snow stuck on the car. Washing UNDER THE ELEMENT is more important than washing the top!

 

[Element Art]

Brine enables them to proactively (read lazily) cover the roads before the weather event, whether or not it even happens. Then if it's just rain we're treated to salty wet roads unless it rains hard enough to wash the salted surface off. And yes, I'd wager salty water gets into places where just plain salt or slushy salt won't. Sign of the times but the automakers don't help, think back to the end of galvanized steel which at least bought body panels some time.

I once visited a plant that galvanized steel. It was in Iowa back in the early 70's. No one wore any masks and everyone looked like they were very sick. It was pretty terrible. Luckily paint has come a long way in preventing rust.