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The only thing that really gets gnarly is fasteners, and they are easily replaced with stainless steel.
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The place I go to also has an undercarriage washer, which I use judiciously.
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I also use the coin- op spray just to get the winter residue off the body and wheel wells and don't really worry about underneath.
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I drive my 03 Targa in the snow. I would love to blast the salt and crud off the undercarraige. However, I am not real enthusiastic about driving through an automatic car wash. What do you guys do?
Actually, if I have the hard top on I take it to an automatic carwash. The wheel rail has a protector to prevent scraping my wheels and I'm not super fastidious about the exterior of my car. When I have the soft top up I just take it to one of those DIY spray booths and spray the car down. It doesn't get it clean, but washes the salt off. To be honest, I don't think the automatic carwash undercarriage wash does as good a job as I can in the booth. Last week I was lucky, it was 60* all week and I just washed all the cars in the driveway. Whoever said that global warming was all bad?
I am lucky enough to have access to a water hose from the house. Have washed when it was down to 18. (Of course, this weekend the low will be -25 and the high is supposed to be -5)
This is the best tool I have had for a long time, but it does need a hose:
http://www.griots.com/product/car+ca...+water+wand.do
Really worked great for underbody.
The big thing with car washes are the wheels. If you are running 18" rims there is a risk of the rims being damaged in there. All of the automatic equipment for the top end is most likely to be rougher on the car than you would be handwashing. Anything loose on the outside could get taken off. Most at risk is your rear badge. That is just plastic glued on.
I have never run my 911 through a car wash, although I know it can be done. I just feel safer doing it myself. I do have a power washer and will use that, but I have done damage with it on my other cars. You have to watch how close you hold the nozzle. That is a lot of pressure and it will take anything loose off the car.
I'm lucky enough to have a drive-in DIY car wash bay, with warm water a few blocks from work. I bring my bucket, diapers etc...right to the bay. Spray down really good, under carriage best I can, soap through nozzle only, and then basically hand wash and dry. Light traffic at this facility, take the far bay so I can take my time.
6 - bucks in quarters, couple times a week, 20 - minutes out of my lunch and the C4 is happy again.
Here in Germany it is against the law to was your car at home (green reasons). If I owned a Cab I would either put it up for the winter or get a hard top.
I feel for you guys with that cold weather. Never anything but sunny out here. The occasional rainy day (maybe 5 per year) just freaks everyone out. Go figure.
You do need to define 'automatic car wash'
I have drain & water in a heated garage........but I still run through washes whenever I can (C4 cab, Turbo, 993).........can never get
all
the salt off.
Washes we have in this area are brushless.....no rails....no tracks. I'd stay away from of the old ones that have any of that old tech.
I never use washes in spring-summer-fall because of how the soap strips the wax....but in the winter, keeping them as clean as possible trumps the wax.
Hey, don't feel sorry for me. It's a little cold, but contrary to popular belief, the car won't fall apart if it gets a little dirty or salty.
As for the automatic car washes, I guess I avoid them for completely different reasons than others--I'm not worried about anything falling off the car (huh?), I'm worried about the high-pressure spray on the rear grill/spoiler forcing water into my engine. If that's nuts, someone please tell me so that I can stop worrying about it.
I use a DIY car wash also. I do spray the deck lid, but I don't dwell on it. The place I go to also has an undercarriage washer, which I use judiciously. If it's super-cold, I leave it alone. Salt's not doing any damage at when it's well below zero. Closer to freezing, I'll use it, ideally as the streets are drying off.
In spring, I send it to my detailing guy who steam cleans the undercarriage with the equipment they use to prep cars for undercoating. The only thing that really gets gnarly is fasteners, and they are easily replaced with stainless steel. My car was winter driven by a previous owner, also. I've been under it... it's just fine.
I agree with everything you've said. I do get a chuckle out of people that advertise a 3-year-old car for sale with the words "rust-free Southern car" or the like--I always think "dude, it's a 3-year-old car...they're ALL like that."
FWIW, I've got a 6-year-old Ford Taurus with 150k miles that's never been garaged and might have been washed a dozen times since new. It gets NO protection from the elements at any point and it looks brand new underneath...and that's STARTING with a crappy car to begin with, not a Porsche.
thanks for the replies so far. I usually wash in a coin op wand-type place but can't do much UNDER the car with the wand. Sounds like my options are:
1. Move to Hermosa Beach
2. Get it steam cleaned somewhere
3. Stick the wand under the car and do the best I can
4. Go to an automatic wash and hope my rims don't get chewed up or the badge stripped off.
#1 is sounding the best...
I'd continue with your current method. I also use the coin- op spray just to get the winter residue off the body and wheel wells and don't really worry about underneath. What do you think the Europeans do with their winter Porsches....they drive them.Good to hear that winter does not mean you won't drive your 911.
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