Does road salt affect modern cars?

Does road salt affect modern cars?

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Efbe

9,251 posts

166 months

Monday 29th November 2010
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If you have deep dish alloys, make sure the grit is 100% cleaned off, otherwise you will have to get them refurbed.

last winter my skyline got stuck at the bottom of my drive, couldn't get it back into the garage due to a slight incline and really low profile tyres.

a gritter must have gone past and left some grit on the alloys, required me spending quite a bit of time with brick cleaner, and being very careful to get them back to normal :/

makang

1 posts

87 months

Tuesday 17th January 2017
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How much of a salt road/driving does it need to get exposed to be concerned? Because I am in little dilemma here. I just want to get some opinions.

I am away from the State and my car is stored in the garage. Well, my family member used the car couple times and upon a usage, I asked to wash before put back in the garage for couple more month of storing until I return.

Unfortunately, car was not washed and now parked in the garage. Here is my problem. Dallas, TX had a brief couple hours of snow on Jan. 6. It appears that Txdot pre treated the roads on 4th and 5th. Car was driven on wet road on the 6th for 30 min which I believe it's salt water.

It keeps bothering me that car is not washed after driven on salt road. Will it damage the car if not washed for 2 more month? Do you guys think I really have to get someone to wash the car? because now I think about it, I don't like anyone else washing my car either... Lol