Driving after the roads are salted

[Guest 70 Electra]

I have to walk through my company's large parking lot everyday at work, and often can taste the salt in my mouth from the "dust" in the air, by the time I get to my daily driver.

Although I don't drive my old cars in the winter, I hadn't considered Dave's very good point about the salt dust blowing into the garage and getting in/on a stored car. It makes me REALLY glad that I seal mine up every winter in zippered storage bags (full of dessicant). The intent was to keep humidity away, but I'm unknowingly keeping salt dust away, too!

[1935Packard]

It rained pretty hard yesterday and dried out and warmed up over night, so today I took out the '35 for a 15 minute drive. It all went well until I took a turn down a narrow one-way street a few blocks from my house (a street I don't normally take). As I got to the end of the street, there was a *huge* pile of salt left down across the road that was still there. Aargh... I slowed down to about 2 mph to go over it as slowly as I could, so as to not kick up anything, and then drove slowly back to my place. I couldn't really see anything underneath when I got back, but I thought of at least washing off the tires (if not the entire underbody, at least what I can reach) in light of that pile of salt. Worth doing, or am I just being paranoid?

[Guest rbl2]

Do it. Better safe than sorry.

[Dave@Moon]

Yes, definitely wash the car as thoroghly as possible. Also allow it to dry as much as possible before putting it back in storage.

[Steve_Mack_CT]

We were out of state for the weekend, and coming back this afternoon on I-84 we saw a super A-v8 roadster, a really nice period highboy. We trailed them for a while, older couple, hooded sweatshirts with hoods blowing off. Traffic flow was probably 70 or so, and my wife could not seem to catch up for a better look. Temp probably 45 or so. Brrr....