I drive all the cars that I've owned all year. I just try to wash it regularly (once a week). It's tougher in the winter now that I don't have a garage so it doesn't get the full soap/wax job. I do try my best to rinse it off though.

As long as you don't let it sit on it for too long you'll be fine. Cars are meant to be driven all the time, so they will manufacture them accordingly.

 

I'm in my 6th winter. Zero rust.

 

What exactly is undercarriage wash? and how do you do it?

 

You have your servants scrub down the underside of the carriage. Or for commoners, you spray high pressure hot water under the chassis. Or for you crackheads, use a carwash.

 

the main stuff they put on the roads is calcium(the white lines) i don't know what that would do really

 

The application or rock salt, sand, and calcium cloride depends greatly on location and temperature.

Dry calcium chloride is more costly than salt, however it's effective at temperatures below 0 F where salt has a problem being effective. It can also be applied as a brine solution which typically contains some amount of salt.

Around here they use tons and tons of salt because it in mined locally and comes cheap. The worst thing around here is the size of the salt, think 1/4" diameter and jagged, we call it rock salt and its mixture with sand. Together these 2 ingrediants do a ton of damage to the paint of the vehicle, as in chips, and then once the paint is chipped the salt can get in to cause havoc with the steel.

To answer the question, here is what I do. In the spring I do not drive my car until the roads appear clean, not covered in white powder. I keep an eye on them when they dry after a rain storm, and as soon as they look clean when dry it is time for me to pull the cars back out. Sometimes we can get a huge spring downpour and it takes one storm, other times we get a bunch of mild little rains and it takes several of them to clean off the roads.

 

Call me in another 12-years and tell me if you car looks as clean as my 18-year old CRX-SiR. Oh wait, don't bother, because if you are exposing it to salt no matter how well you wash it it will not look this good.

 

Ha ha, not to worry. I'll never own a car that long, especially an econobox.

 

lol

 

WOW pandering to himself?