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Old 11-25-2006, 09:01 PM
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Winter Car Care

I just bought my pretty red 97 camaro but its going to be my primary car so i was wondering if some peple he had any idea on good winter car care.
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Old 11-25-2006, 09:20 PM
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Wash it..
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keep as much salt off of it as possible
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What are you talking about? Like prepping your car to be able to drive or what?
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keeping it less rusty and **** cuz rust would suck hardcore ******* dick. how often should i wash it?
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Its gonna rust from salt no matter what... thats what sucks about driving your car in the winter.

Most likely your underbody should be the only place to rust. Ive driven mine through 2 winters that I know of and the only rust is underneath.

How often should you wash it? Everytime you drive on the winter roads if you want to keep the salt off. Seriously it sucks, and you wont avoid it unless you dont drive your car.
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wash it weekly, I have driven cars for many winters with no rust (most roads don't have much salt especially after the temps get really cold since salt is useless then) your under carriage will rust from the moisture in the air, make sure and wash the under carriage also. I have also seen cars that rust bad in storage (I had a cutlass that the frame rusted out and it never saw rain or winter roads, but was stored in an unheated garage with concrete floors)
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Thanks.yeah thereisnoway i can avoid driving it. its only 3 miles to work so its not to bad. and they have a car wash in the gas station next door so i could prolly get a discount. but i got a lot of work to do on my car before winter hits.
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there should be another soultion besides salting roads...i would sue for rust damage...
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sand is sometimes used here but that just makes a mess
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there should be another soultion besides salting roads...i would sue for rust damage...
salt won't cause rust if you care for your car (aka wash the thing in the winter)
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Get some winter tires too.
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Yeah winter tires for the rear, and a couple bags of sand in the rear. Youre set.
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what exactly are winter tires?
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