Wet vehicles in a finished garage - Dehumidifier?

I broom off my Jeep and truck - especially snow packed running boards and wheel wheels. We don’t have a floor drain, so I sweep out snow and water out of the garage. And mop the floor. And run a dehumidifier for about 8 hours after coming in wet and snowy.
 
I broom off my Jeep and truck - especially snow packed running boards and wheel wheels. We don’t have a floor drain, so I sweep out snow and water out of the garage. And mop the floor. And run a dehumidifier for about 8 hours after coming in wet and snowy.
Glad to know I'm not alone in managing this issue, but I think we're talking about a different type of accumulation in the wheel wells.

In the absence of a heated garage, the alternative is the pressure washer at a self-serve car wash. I've had to use this technique on snowy road trips. The buildup can get so bad that you lose any effective suspension. It feels like you're driving a shopping cart and it can cost several dollars per wheel well at the car wash to clear out the ice buildup. My approach is to blast a geometric pattern deep into the ice buildup with the pressure washer and then try to manually break off chunks of ice between the lines I blasted by kicking them.

Is this just a Rocky Mountains thing? I assume folks in the upper midwest have the same issue.
 
^ it’s been about 5 years since we’ve had enough snow to totally pack the wheel wells. I poke the snow out as best I can with a broom handle. I usually let the remainder melt in the garage. We now have a new car wash that I can take it to next time we get a lot of snow,
 
One more update, I also purchased a squeegee with an EVA blade. After our last snowy trip I turned on the dehumidifier before leaving the car in the garage. After a few hours, I went back into the garage and squeegeed all the water and gunk from under and around the vehicle. By morning everything was dry enough to sweep up the remaining road grime. Although the dehumidifier doesn't collect much in volume, there's no residual dampness in the garage anymore.
 
We chose to use a dehumidifier in our town house "basement." It w*rked well but cost a lot in electricity. We eventually just left the door open to the moist space which helped a lot.

Not sure of your best solution, but don't underestimate the cost if the issue is common. YMMV
 
I'm curious about the electric costs as well, but it's a small unit and only needs to run a few times each winter. Otherwise, the humidity in our garage hovers around 19-22% in the winter, so super dry.
 
I just looked and my dehumidifier draws 6.9 amps at full load. It equates to about 9 cents an hour at our KWH rate. It only has to run a few hours a week. The cost of electricity is irrelevant to me.
 
I'm curious about the electric costs as well, but it's a small unit and only needs to run a few times each winter. Otherwise, the humidity in our garage hovers around 19-22% in the winter, so super dry.
You should be fine then. Our dehumidifier would run more or less constantly in the application we tried. Essentially, a dehumidifier is a small "window AC" and uses similar electricity.
 
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