Do you wash your car or truck in the winter?

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I don't wash my car. To quote a good friend- I have a hammer, and I don't wash that either. My wife occasionally gets sick of looking at it and washes it, and if I bring it in for service, they wash it- but otherwise it would never get washed. 100k on it now, and not a sign of rust.

Put me in the- keep oil where it belongs camp. Likewise, when people tell me they must keep adding oil or power steering fluid- it drives me a bit nuts.

Probably shouldn't mention how I have to add oil to the Honda Accord about every 2 -3 weeks then, huh? ;) I should add that it is closing in on 200,000 miles (199,245 or something like that as of this morning) and I don't see any leaks or notice a huge plume of oil laden clouds floating out from the exhaust . . . so I haven't worried too much about it.
 
We have likely the saltiest conditions anywhere.

I never wash our vehicles, summer or winter.

I do however get them Rust Checked once a year. Oldest is a 2006 Civic with 395,000 kms on it. No rust yet.
 
How do you do that in Bangor in the winter? Do you have hot water running to a hose bib? We haven't had a day above freezing here in over a month.
Pretty much. I have to run the hose through the basement door to an interior spigot though.
 
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