Can road salt and other snow prevention materials damage a car's finish or parts?

Answer 1

Yes, it'll make them rust.

Answer 2

Yes, the salts that are used to melt ice and snow can be very damaging to your car's parts and finish. However, the circumstances that they are damaging are limited and can be combatted or lessened.

Salts, when mixed with water, become corrosive above 40 degrees F. At any temperatures below that, the salts are essentially inert outside of the heat they produce when mixed with water.

With this being true, if you wash the salts off your vehicle before the ambient temperature moves above 40, you can prevent much of the damage the corrosive salts can cause above 40 degrees.

At any rate, keep your vehicle clean during/after any snow event and before overall temps climb above 40, you should be fine.

Also, if you keep your vehicle garaged, wash it often as most garages stay above 40 most of the time.

Answer 3

Yes, I do know that salt is very hard on a car, it usually will cause the car to rust. So, when ever the weather is warm enough wash your car to get the salts off of it. It will help keep it in better condition.

Answer 4

Yes, the salt eats away the bottom of your car. Wash the bottom of your car always to help reduce the impact the salt and any other street impediments that might attach themselves to your car. Also be very careful when you run over a plastic bag it can get stuck under your car and melt into your exhaust and believe me that is the most awful smell.

Answer 5

it could additionally be a flood motor vehicle, seem intently on the interior for mould, water line marks. yet another danger is that it replaced right into a crash restore achieved with inexpensive after marketplace factors that rusted. See in case you may seem at yet another ML350's engine bay. Salt is undesirable, yet maximum modern autos (and specific extra so with Mercedes) are particularly lots rust proofed. i might think of that an 06 might additionally be below the unique assure for rust via.

Answer 6

Recent advances on rustproofing and undercoating have minimized the rusting problems, but the road salt is still VERY hard on the paint of the vehicle.

Answer 7

salt does NOT cause rust. it accelerates the rust process. make sure you touch up chips in your paint rust will only start where there is bare metal. run your car through a car wash with an underbody flush just in case stones or road debris have chipped away any undercoating.

Answer 8

It used to be that it would make car bodies rust out around the bottom, but in recent decades, car bodies have been made so they just don't rust.

Answer 9

Absolutly yes it will, I think the states are getting kickbacks from the auto manufacturers for using such corrosive materials.

Answer 10

sure can, if left on the vehicle it will start rust.