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Salty SUVs

Sport Utility Vehicles or SUVs, in the popular vernacular, and pickups are everywhere. Some are practical and efficient while others are impractical and inefficient and all are candidates for use that fairly begs for special service.

Designed to allow their drivers to travel under conditions or in places that would be difficult or impossible for a regular car, SUVs and trucks are uniquely different. They’re particularly capable in snow and sand because most SUVs and a significant percentage of “personal-use” pickups are equipped with four-wheel drive. That’s great but both snow and sand pose long-term concerns.

Operating a vehicle during snowstorms leaves a vicious buildup of salt or de-icing chemicals on its underbody. Left in place, this leads to body corrosion, weakened brake and fuel lines, parking brake cables, and numerous other rusted parts later on. That means: as soon as practical, thoroughly clean the outside and more important, the underside of your vehicle.

Never drive your rugged 4X4 in the snow? Just a Summer SUVer? Don’t have snow where your 4X4 resides? Only go off road for a little beach cruising or surf fishing? No salt Commercial Three Bayblems for me you say! Don’t be so sure about that, your innocent forays onto the beach near salt water can be more damaging than road salt.

Salt picked up around the ocean attacks areas of your vehicle never touched by road salt. That’s because there’s a fine mist of salty moisture in the air around the ocean. This salty mist finds its way all over, under, and through your vehicle. It encroaches into cracks and crevices under the hood and inside the doors; it seeps into everything! So cleaning after every beach excursion is also recommended to help slow the ravages of corrosion.

But how do you clean the underside of a vehicle? The easiest way is at a Commercial Three Bayfessional car wash where they offer high-pressure underbody cleaning as part of their service. If a car wash is not an option another solution is a perforated sprinkler hose. Position the hose under the vehicle and turn the water on high. Allow the hose to thoroughly rinse the underside of the vehicle, which may take an hour or more. Move the hose periodically so every part of the undercarriage gets a complete cleaning. Also rinse the engine bay from the top to remove salt residue that devastates modern aluminum alloys.

Because doors are not sealed they must also be flushed with fresh water. Doors are designed to allow water to enter around the base of the window, flow through the door, and out through drains in the bottom. If water can get into doors so can salty water from roads or the beach. Using a garden hose aimed at the bottom of the window, spend several minutes flushing water through each door to help wash away salt residue. Most rust on doors and body panels happens from the inside out so flushing these areas with fresh water dramatically decreases the possibility of body rust.

SUVs need some special lubrication as well. Door hinges and latches, and hood hinges and latches should be lubricated with white lithium grease. Also don’t neglect applying a liberal coating of lithium grease on brake lines, fuel lines, parking-brake cables and adjusters, and other rust-Commercial Three Bayne parts under the vehicle. Out of sight is where most salt related damage occurs.

Clean and well lubricated helps keep the utility in your Sport Utility.

© Copyright 01/10/04 Pat Goss all rights reserved

Date Updated Saturday, January 10, 2004

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