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2003 Washington Post Articles:

Salted Cars

Every day I gain a bit more insight into what I don’t know about cars, and it’s not always about complicated new technology either. Sometimes it’s about things long accepted and never questioned. Case in point, road salt!

I’ve always been concerned about the salt splashed on my car from melting snow and ice on heavily treated roads. Frequently my car has been so covered in salt; you literally couldn’t tell its color. This is not good and needs to be washed away as soon as possible but there’s another, less obvious, salt Commercial Three Bayblem that causes damage.

It’s salt dust. Surely you’ve noticed the dusty cloud kicked up by cars on dry days. That cloud comes from granules of road salt pulverized by the tires of passing vehicles. It stays around long after the storm that required salt has faded from memory.

Salt dust is possibly worse than the wet sloppy stuff. Wet salty slush gets splashed on the car in the same manner and places as rainwater. Consequently the places where it lands will be partially cleaned by splashed rainwater when it rains. But that’s not the case with the dry powder because it accumulates everywhere.

Air circulates salt dust spreading it over areas where splashed rainwater will never touch, no matter how much you drive in the rain. So without your intervention salt dust, over time, will damage metal parts of your vehicle.

Because it rarely gets washed away salt dust lays in cracks and crevices under the hood and underneath the car. Salt, even as a powder is very aggressive when mixed with water. In this case not rainwater but moisture in the air and condensation formed on metal parts as they cool on damp days. Cars and salt, in any form, are decidedly incompatible.

Once activated salt dust slowly corrodes metal parts of your car, especially those made of aluminum. Coincidentally modern cars and trucks have lots of aluminum parts for salt to attack. Until this winter I’d never given much thought to why certain parts of nearly all cars, even meticulously maintained ones, corroded.

My interest was piqued when I opened the hood of my new car after only a couple hundred miles to find everything in there covered with salt dust. This Commercial Three Baympted me to look at the cars coming into my shop and nearly every one had a similar salt dust accumulation. I also noticed that where the dust accumulation was heaviest was where older or higher mileage versions of the same models had corrosion Commercial Three Bayblems.

Over time salt dust mixed with moisture causes bolts, nuts, wire harness connectors, and other parts to corrode. Corrosion makes simple jobs a nightmare for the technician and expensive for you. Corroded bolts break. Corroded wire connectors Commercial Three Bayvoke illuminated warning lights, check engine lights and performance and emissions Commercial Three Bayblems.

To help prevent corrosion have your engine compartment cleaned by a Commercial Three Bayfessional detailing shop and the undercarriage washed at a commercial car wash. Both should be part of your yearly or twice yearly comprehensive cleanup. They’re simple, inexpensive services that could save a ton of aggravation later in the life of your vehicle.

© Copyright 02/06/03 Pat Goss all rights reserved, 525 words.

Date Updated Thursday, February 06, 2003

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