Undercarriage car wash - GIF

[ToolTalkBot]

Undercarriage car wash.




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[thadrodgers]

What is the cleaner? Sure works good. And the balance lift is a good one.

[Tonyg]

Have not seen a lift like that before. A quick Google shows that it is made in Vancouver, Canada.

https://vancouverautolift.ca/autolift3000/

[Floradawg]

Now he doesn't know which side to keep up and which to keep down.

[Bony]

But why wash under a car anyway?

[Frank S]

But why wash under a car anyway?

One good reason is here in the US the Highway departments seem to love to spray brine on the motorways every time there is even the slightest hint of possible freezing precipitation, if you drive on a sprayed road soon afterwards if it happens to rain sleet or snow the spray from your tires coats the underside of your vehicle with instant corrosive, If it happens to snow the snow plow trucks will distribute sand &salt mix as they plow adding to more corrosive causing materials, Regular washing of the underside may help to stave off your vehicle rotting away from under you. In the coastal areas where the humidity is always high it is more important to have the cavities in the underside of a vehicle coated with a waxlike substance than simply spraying an under coat especially on the newer pickups which all now have boxed frames/

[Bony]

Thanks Frank. One of my vehicles is an Isuzu 4x4 and the only reason I ever use a high pressure washer underneath is to remove mud and/or fine red dust.

[Jon]

There is even a large portion of America known as the "Salt Belt" because of how much damage they do to cars from salting the roads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Belt

[ductape]

Salt on roads will melt ice and snow until about about 15F/-9C, depending on ground temperature. Below that point, road crews start using calcium chloride, which works very well but is a good bit more corrosive to all kinds of steel than salt, even stainless. Also not especially good for aluminum. It's a good idea for anyone living in those areas to wash it off whenever they get a chance.

[Ralphxyz]

I live along the ocean with lots of road that get flooded with sea walter. I have had 3 Nissan pickups that the frames rusted away in 5 years. I would love to have a under carriage wash!