New Member From S.E. Michigan

[JeepinJim]

Hi All,

Wife and I have new-to-us vehicles, both within the past few months. Her 2014 Chevy Equinox about mid-summer. My 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited just a couple weeks ago. Both fairly low mileage, with pretty nice exteriors and interiors. I'd like to keep them that way as long as possible.

It's too late in the season for me to do anything, myself, so I plan to get the exteriors detailed, then find and use the least-abusive nearby car wash I can (yes, yes, I know: *shudder*) to mitigate the road salt exposure. In the meantime I'll make plans for spring.

So here I am :)

Jim

[Hammer77]

Welcome to AGO Jim! Where are you in S.E. Michigan?

[JeepinJim]

Thanks, Hammer77! In Waterford Township.

[Dan K]

Welcome from just over the border in NW Ohio.

[DaveT435]

Welcome!! I was raised in the Kalamazoo area.

[Hammer77]

I am from all over Wayne County, familiar with Waterford.

[SWETM]

Welcome!

Use the touchless car washes but I think that you mean that. Or check out how you do the rinseless wash.

[Klasse Act]

Welcome from former SEMI resident[emoji41]

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[AZ Mike]

Welcome to Autogeek.

[hoyt66]

Welcome from Lake Orion

[Paul A.]

Welcome Jim!

[B5visser]

Welcome from the Kalamazoo area!

[derek0609]

Thanks, Hammer77! In Waterford Township.


Welcome! I am over in Novi

[DaveT435]

Welcome from the Kalamazoo area!

Where abouts in the Kalamazoo area? I was actually Portage at the south end of Westnedge. I know I've talked to you before I remember the last name, thought you might be related to a woman I know up there.

[JeepinJim]

Thanks for the warm welcome, everybody!

Hope all my fellow countrymen & women had an enjoyable Thanksgiving Day.


Use the touchless car washes but I think that you mean that. Or check out how you do the rinseless wash.
If I can find a touchless nearby that's what I'll do. Though I understand that, unless you have ceramic, it doesn't get the body really clean.

I have read up on rinseless car washing. Looks like a fascinating process, but I doubt it would achieve the desired result in the wintertime.

You see: Here in Michigan they salt the roads in the wintertime. And not sparingly. They throw it down by the truck-load. Literally. Oft times indiscriminately. It is not at all unusual to see mounds of the stuff in the middle of intersections. You can see clouds of salt dust fly when the roads dry. It is death to bodywork. Heck, my wife's 2003 Chevy TrailBlazer, which is a body-on-frame design, had the frame rust through just behind the left front wheel.

So, once the plowing and salting have the roads clear and (mostly) dry: You have to get the salt residue off. Car wash is the only way. Preferably a car wash that'll do underbody washing.

Jim