My title to this thread may not be the best to describe what I'd like some imput on, sorry.
Got my '18 recently. I'm in GA. I upgraded from a '13 I got new in GA and it wa super clean when I sold it. Never saw snow or salt etc.
I grew up in NY so I know what salt/snow can do to vehicles. My '18 was sold new in VA in August so it may have seen some snow
before I brought it down to GA.
I want to make sure the underside and wheel wells are clean from any possible salt during this winter in VA.
Should I just take it to one of the pressure wash bays and spray the underside good and be done with it?

Thanks!

 

this is what i would do. Go to home depot / lowe's and get yourself a cheap little electric pressure washer. Hands down one of the best tools i bought for detailing. Plus the uses it has around the house

 

Al lot of car washes have an underside spray. I take mine to them all the time in the winter in OH. No rust no fuss.

 

I was driving up Hwy 231, just south of Dothan, Alabama the other night starting around midnight. I passed dozens of deer grazing on the side of the road as I traveled. I wondered at what point I'd hit one....thankfully I didn't hit a live one. A dead one? Yep. Somebody had already spread it out and I couldn't miss it all. Deer parts ricocheting off of the various shields and pipes under there make a serious racket. I think I WILL clean the underside..........

 

Mine spent three years in Canada before I purchased it. Wheel wells look like new. I wouldn't have concerns with a new truck, spray it out on occasion. Or not. My 2003 Escape never had a single underbody cleaning, no cleanings at all the last four years of it's life. 13 years in the Ohio Valley, only rust was where it got scraped to the metal on the hump over the fenderwell (outside), three year after that happened, rust had barely spread under the paint (1/4").

And that damn thing had the gold paint that didn't properly adhere to the primer. Started peeling in 2009, had several square feet of missing paint when the tranny died in 2018. Parked outside in the sun. No rust except at that scrape. Ford appears to have their **** together with protecting the body and chassis bits from nasty Mr. Rust.

 

Thanks. I do have a Ryobi electric pressure washer. I figured for ease of use and not having to worry about freezing hoses just going to the local bay for now would be good. When it's warmer out I'll fire up the pressure washer.
We've had our cold spell here in GA for the last week.

 

I've considered adding something like this to my cleaning repertoire:
https://smile.amazon.com/Pressure-85...ressure+washer

 

An oscillating lawn sprinkler works great.

 

I used to use the high-pressure rinse at the coin-op wash bay to clean the underside, but now most car washes have a good underbody spray that will clean off light dirt and salt.

 

Ya, I'm not a fan of pressure washers around vehicles and motorcycles. WAY to easy to get careless and over power water into places it does not belong, like electrical or grease seals. Take it to a place that has under carriage wash. Not near the pressure.