How will you keep your 370 clean in the Winter?
 

For everyone who uses their 370 as a daily driver how will you keep your car washed and waxed in the winter?

I have ONE word for you: A garage and ONR !

(well, more than one word but you get the idea...)

Except for people on the west coast, for everyone who uses their 370 as a daily driver how will you keep your car washed and waxed in the winter? :)

I'm going the other direction, and finding out exactly how dirty I can get it.

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I plan on doing the same thing I do during Summer. Weekly washes, and daily wipe downs with a detailer spray.

Yeechh.... there's always one. :roflpuke2:

So I was thinking more about how the cold weather will affect how you keep your car clean. Are you going to be out with buckets and a hose when it drops into the 50's, 40's, 30's ? Or will you go to a coin-op spray wash or maybe an automatic wash? What about going waterless and doing the whole whole thing in the garage including waxing?

I'll have a bucket of water in my driveway in the 40's if I have to, yep. I'll probably wait to wax again (just waxed 2 days ago) until March or so. Most of my cleaning will be in the garage with just a detailer spray though.

Mind you, I'm in Georgia. My winter days will still be sunny and in the 50's mid afternoon.

As I said... ONR !

For wax, I use Ultima. Paintguard Plus+. I can tell you (as the label does), put it on in October and the water beads up till March. It's a bit expensive, though. Something like $70-$80 a bottle (a bottle is rated for about 50 waxes, though).

In the winter (under 40) I wash my car in my closed garage with low water flow so not to splash all over the walls. I have plenty of florescent lighting to see and just squeegee the floor when done.

In the winter time I usually frequent the power spray DIY wash places, just to get road salt off of the car periodically.

Most people do two major details a year... one in the Spring and one in the Fall. I did my fall detail, so the car is sealed with a few coats of Poorboy's EX. It will not be waxed at all between now and my next detail. I'll just periodically wash it to get rid of the grime. :)

What about Arizona and most of Nevada? :p

The question should be: "For people in areas subject to inclement weather, ...?" :)

keep it in the garage! :rofl2::bowrofl::roflpuke2:

No kidding im current stationed in VA, and am moving the car to San Diego CA in a few weeks, then myself in a few months

Keep it in the Garage under a car cover lol




DAN

My days of washing the car outside will die. So, I'll do minor wash downs with my 2 gallon yard sprayer and a bucket of water. More thorough cleanings will be at the local car wash (Chicago has tons of hand car washes)

Wash it infront of my house as I've been doing so for the past months.
Cold weather will not ruin my baby boo.

Garaged nightly (snow melts). Touchless car wash about once a week, detailing in my garage every 3-4 months and several coats of carnauba wax each time. My other two cars still look fantastic after 9 winters each, so I know this works!

The guy that went offroading with his has you beat by a mile.

Yep, and my cheap *** might stitch together a few bedsheets and make myself a cover for $20 or so. not waterproof, but it'll keep the dust/dirt from building up while the car sits in my garage for the next 3-4 months.

How are your winters in Texas?

How are the winters in your state?

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Generally, light on snow, heavy on ice (freezing rain, to be exact) - it happens a couple times a season, where you go to leave work or go to work, and you have over 2" of ice built up over your windshield wipers, and a 1/4" layer of ice around your door. We had an ice storm a few years ago where most of the state of Oklahoma lost power for about a week. Some got lucky and were out only 3 days, others were upwards of 3-4 weeks. Imagine *everything* being out of commission...how quickly what you take for granted is no longer available...like "heat" and "fuel" and "food" and "basic communications"...to be honest, I'm surprised there wasn't a ****-ton of crime going on. I did find it interesting the amount of fallen tree debris that was piled up around town - 2-3 acre area piled up 15+ feet high...and several dozen of them around Tulsa...100 year storm...

They don't treat the roads much where I live, though in Tulsa they make an attempt.

Not like Michigan. Heavy on snow, light on ice, and they have packs of trucks and TONS of sand/salt mix. Roads are cleared pretty quickly, they have snow routes when it's really bad, and cars don't last long up there...lol.