Line-X Undercarriage - Anyone done this?

[ZombieK5]

I keep dreaming that someone will make a functional set of undercarriage plastic shields. Keep spray/mud from the tires reaching the majority of the nooks and crannies, mainly for the rear.

Once stuff gets into places like the taillight pillars, its not coming out with a simple rinse. But a plastic wheel well filler and plate from the rear wheel well to the bed end would help a ton.

My truck basically never sees deicing fluid or salt, but still rotted out the wheel wells from mud getting stuck where I couldnt see to wash it off.

The struggle is real. I see salt roads about 4 months of the year. There should be support groups around the country. My wife is finally beginning to understand.

 

[Blue85]

It's the government taking our money to vandalize our vehicles. This proves that their real agenda isn't "green". I don't think you can win on logic, but maybe we can make it into an environmental issue.

 

[dyeager535]

Sad thing is we have gone from NOT using anything (that I ever saw years back) but sand to some sort of deicing fluid. My understanding of deicing fluid is that even if it's not as bad as salt at corrosion, it STILL assists corrosion.

Are undercarriage car washes a thing in the rust belt?

 

[Blue85]

Are undercarriage car washes a thing in the rust belt?

Pretty much all the automatic ones I know of have the sprayers you drive over. Then you get to re-apply brine to everything on the way home. Not wanting to completely waste $12, people wait for the roads to (temporarily) dry out and then form long lines at the washes.

 

[CT-BLAZER]

Exactly to the above .... A carwash is recycling a salty/ chemical brine ....

I've spent as much time washing the bottom side as the top side since I got my driver's license.

New building has two wash bays with dry hydrants in the building.... Drive in, close the door and start washing the underside with clean cold water

A clean car is a happy car

 

[CT-BLAZER]

The struggle is real. I see salt roads about 4 months of the year. There should be support groups around the country. My wife is finally beginning to understand.

But, is she helping to wash the salt off your SUV?

 

[Chickntrk]

Car washes, hand washing, any kind of washing will never remove all the brine from nooks and crannies that it gets into. If it gets driven in that crap then it needs to be covered in a layer of something that doesn’t harden and won’t allow the brine to contact metal directly. Other than that, park it for winter.