Hi.Living in CT lots of brutal salt and calmag on the roads.Is there something that can be sprayed on bottom side of my truck and washed off to remove and kill the salt residue?Besides water?Between NY and CT my truck takes a beating.Thanks
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Are you speaking of the paint or the undercarriage? The paint I always put two coats of collinite which seems to do a nice job. I hose/wash off the vehicles whenever I get a chance. For the undercarriage you can always use something like Krown which will coat the undercarriage and prevent rust. If you're looking for something to remove salt after it is already on the vehicle I would just use a pressure washer or self serve car wash
Besides water there isn't anything that will be more effective in removing the salt. All chlorides of sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium are highly soluble in water and there isn't any magic spray that will react with the salt and render it harmless. Hot or warm water will be more effective than cold water, and the more you use the better.
Maybe someone will chime in that has used this product: http://www.saltawayproducts.com/
I just use water and we have plenty of rain here in Michigan to wash away the evil.
I just use water and we have plenty of rain here in Michigan to wash away the evil.
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Maybe someone will chime in that has used this product: http://www.saltawayproducts.com/
That product looks to be a combination of water and a corrosion inhibitor. That may be effective in preventing further corrosion but it won't be any more effective at removing the salt than plain water. That is an impossibility.
Note that this claim below is deliberately ambiguous. Such a claim could just as well be made for plain water. Especially note that nowhere do they say that the product has proven to be more effective at removing salt than water. It only says that it "passed". Since the ISO test is for surface cleanliness, it also contains a surfactant (detergent) per the SDS. That "maximum limit" language means that it does not corrode the base metal any more than the test allows.
Bottom line it looks like mostly water with a bit of soap and some kind of residual corrosion inhibitor. Which might help, or might not.
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We have continued to conduct a series of tests, particularly at the request of the military, using military specification testing methods, metals and procedures. The objectives included metal immersion testing for weight loss data, removal of sodium chlorides and other contaminants from steel substrates and other surfaces for preparation of coating applications, and sodium chloride removal from salt water marine engines. These tests, performed in 2001 and 2002, reveal that Salt-Away has passed the ISO Standard (8502-6) for Chloride Removal and the Assessment for Surface Cleanliness, and has met the maximum limit for weight loss (lack of deleterious effects) and salt removal on all mil spec metals used in the controlled tests.
Maybe someone will chime in that has used this product: http://www.saltawayproducts.com/
That product looks to be a combination of water and a corrosion inhibitor. That may be effective in preventing further corrosion but it won't be any more effective at removing the salt than plain water. That is an impossibility.
Note that this claim below is deliberately ambiguous. Such a claim could just as well be made for plain water. Especially note that nowhere do they say that the product has proven to be more effective at removing salt than water. It only says that it "passed". Since the ISO test is for surface cleanliness, it also contains a surfactant (detergent) per the SDS. That "maximum limit" language means that it does not corrode the base metal any more than the test allows.
Bottom line it looks like mostly water with a bit of soap and some kind of residual corrosion inhibitor. Which might help, or might not.
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We have continued to conduct a series of tests, particularly at the request of the military, using military specification testing methods, metals and procedures. The objectives included metal immersion testing for weight loss data, removal of sodium chlorides and other contaminants from steel substrates and other surfaces for preparation of coating applications, and sodium chloride removal from salt water marine engines. These tests, performed in 2001 and 2002, reveal that Salt-Away has passed the ISO Standard (8502-6) for Chloride Removal and the Assessment for Surface Cleanliness, and has met the maximum limit for weight loss (lack of deleterious effects) and salt removal on all mil spec metals used in the controlled tests.
Once the Winter is gone, just hook up your lawn sprinkler and put it underneath the truck for 15 minutes per front, 15 minutes per midsection and 15 minutes rear and it will be salt free. If there is visible rust following this, search out someone that does oil spraying of cars & trucks. In Canada we have Krown and Rust-Check, both very good products applied by professionals.
Water dissolves salt. Hot water dissolves salt faster.
hose or power washer it will be then.stuff is brutal on the cars here.2 and 3yr old cars and trucks rusting like crazy.Part of why i dont wanna buy a new truck.Thanks all.
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Once the Winter is gone, just hook up your lawn sprinkler and put it underneath the truck for 15 minutes per front, 15 minutes per midsection and 15 minutes rear and it will be salt free. If there is visible rust following this, search out someone that does oil spraying of cars & trucks. In Canada we have Krown and Rust-Check, both very good products applied by professionals.
I do that, or drive up the ramps, put the wand on my power washer and idle it while I wash the front half of the vehicle. Then back it up the ramps and do the back. It does a pretty good job. I can also mix soap into the water if I want.
Once the Winter is gone, just hook up your lawn sprinkler and put it underneath the truck for 15 minutes per front, 15 minutes per midsection and 15 minutes rear and it will be salt free. If there is visible rust following this, search out someone that does oil spraying of cars & trucks. In Canada we have Krown and Rust-Check, both very good products applied by professionals.
I do that, or drive up the ramps, put the wand on my power washer and idle it while I wash the front half of the vehicle. Then back it up the ramps and do the back. It does a pretty good job. I can also mix soap into the water if I want.
Water dissolves salt into a brine over time. But you have to rinse it off several times otherwise the brine will just flow along your chassis to somewhere else and dray into salt. Then you have just moved salt other places.
The sprinkler idea is a good one as a quick fix but the best thing to do will be to drive at highway speeds in the rain after the salt has washed away from the road surface. There's no machine that will get clean water into all of the 'invisible' places salt brine can flow and collect better than the natural air movement around the vehicle.
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