pb4uski
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+1 on gravel road. I wash it when it is dirty and I'm in town (where the automatic carwash is) and the weather is dry and the forecast is for good weather. There is not much worse than washing the car and getting it home and having it about as dirty as you start out with. In the winter, I often do the cheapy wash just to get the salt off.
In the summer I occasionally wash and wax by hand... and always use car wash soap.
On another topic, around here it was common to oil undercoat vehicles annually when I was a teenager and young adult, then the manufacturers improved their rust-protection and most of my adult life we didn't undercoat but there has been a resurgence of oil undercoating lately because we have been seeing more and more rust. The culprits seem to be more use of recycled steel and more importantly, the road crews are using brine on the roads rather than salt and many people blame that. My mechanic says that people have been going through brake rotors like crazy and he blames it on the brine.
In the summer I occasionally wash and wax by hand... and always use car wash soap.
On another topic, around here it was common to oil undercoat vehicles annually when I was a teenager and young adult, then the manufacturers improved their rust-protection and most of my adult life we didn't undercoat but there has been a resurgence of oil undercoating lately because we have been seeing more and more rust. The culprits seem to be more use of recycled steel and more importantly, the road crews are using brine on the roads rather than salt and many people blame that. My mechanic says that people have been going through brake rotors like crazy and he blames it on the brine.