![]() 02/26/2015 at 13:37 • Filed to: Clean Car | ![]() | ![]() |
The back driver's door was so covered in bird shit that it was grossing me out every time I opened it. And the salt was making Mazda rust horror stories creep into my mind a lot. So, Lil' Red is clean again. I'll spend the next few days (until it rains on Sunday) avoiding puddles and random leftover snow/salt blobs falling off of other cars.
Winter sucks. I miss detailing the car myself, going for long drives through the countryside, and just sitting outside. Cannot wait for springtime!
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As a fellow Mazda3 owner (a '10 s hatch, smiley face and all), I've been running it through a car wash every week or so. I love the car, but Michigan salt scares me much more now than it did with my Honda. To be fair, that Honda was already a little beat to shit....
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Good call, when I was in the midwest I had a 2005 Mazda 3 that started to rust by the rear fender/bumper. Then again, the PO had never washed it, so you're a better owner already.
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I'm gonna spray mine down today or tomorrow just to get the salt off. I live in the south. I shouldn't have to deal with salt. After last year's FUBAR they've been salting like crazy. I saw them salt yesterday. People were following too close. Getting salt water spray right on/in their cars.
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Mine has no rust. But it has been frequently washed (to say the least) for the last six years. And the only owner before me was in southern Georgia.
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my hose is buried under massive amounts of snow. Its snowing again so cleaning it this point isn;t really wirht the effort. When all this white shits gone i'm going to make a hookup to my hose with a PVC pipe with holes drilled in the top. I'll set up a little bit of a ramp so i can get up and over the pipe and use it to spray the undercarrage
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That's clean as hell! I love this design and body style of the Mazda 3. I was looking at getting a Speed3 before I decided on a Miata. Reminds me that I will definitely be washing my Miata ASAP.