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Cleaning car underside after the salty road season...

  • 17-01-2010 7:24am
    #1
    B11gt00e
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭


    I'm curious about how some of the carnnoisseurs here went about desalinating the undercarriages of their precious motors after driving on salted motorways during the cold snap?

    Just a powerhose wash?


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  • #2
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    somebody else asked the same:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055799614


  • #3
    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    I'd hold off on it for the moment as the grit residue is still all over the roads and once the ground is wet it will just go straight back up on the car, best wait a month or so.


  • #4
    Seanieke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Seanieke


    They were gritting the M4 last night, I'd hold off for a bit longer


  • #5
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    I wouldn't hold off on it if you are going to do it yourself, that's like not washing your car because you think it's going to rain next week and it may get dirty again.

    Eitherway, you're more than likely not going to get all of it, so it may need one or more washes anyway.


  • #6
    nogoodnamesleft
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭nogoodnamesleft


    Did mine yesterday afternoon wheel arches, alloys, and underside. Fair about of grit on the arches as its seems to bond (judging by how it sticks to the paint work). Feel better now that its done. Gave the car a once over also while I was @ it,tyre pressures and fluids.


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  • #7
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    I did mine and the GF's on saturday. They used so much salt over christmas/new year I'd do it asap. And do it again in the next week or so.

    I power hosed the arches, alloys and under body and all the body work and then used the garden hose under the arches again as the power hose isn't as flexible to get in the lip/nooks and crannys.


  • #8
    B11gt00e
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭B11gt00e


    Thanks very much to everyone that answered my query. Everybody has given sound advice which I'm going to take. A bit of hosing down this evening for sure.


  • #9
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    just don't over-do it.

    Don't sit the high power nozzle right on the car bottom (tempting as that may be). These things have enough power to crack the protective coating/strip it right off - making things worse instead of better.

    Keep the lance well away, wash away the salt, don't try and blast it off.


  • #10
    OldmanMondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭OldmanMondeo


    With the current water shortages, it would be better to wait until the supply is better. You don't want to get up next morning and find you can't have a coffee because suppy is gone. Councils are asking people to conserve the water.


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