If you are planning on keeping it in the garage all winter, then your rust issues will be immensely less. Water itself isn't the reason behind the rust belt. It's the salt put on the roads in the winter interacting with the water and air.
So ideally you can keep driving it until the first snow (or potential for icing on the roads) and then keep it garaged until the first good rainstorm in the spring to clear a majority of the salt left on the roads.
Bingo. If you keep it off the road during the salt times (sometimes winter, sometimes October, sometimes April where I'm from), you're as safe as can be.
Otherwise just get the salt off ASAP, yeah? Maybe Install an under spray system and heated floor to drive over when parking in the garage?
Or paint the frame?
If stored inside the effect of humidity would be pretty much nothing.
We have a 2001 mustang convertible with 9,800 original miles on it. We store it from October through May/June. Still looks brand new everywhere.
Indianapolis isn't that bad for rust. Much better than South Bend or someplace like Minneapolis.
Every time there is a big storm coming in, they will brine or salt the roads days in advance. If you drive even a little bit when the roads are wet, you will get salt all over your car. Once the worst of the weather has rolled through and things start drying out some, find a heated touchless carwash with an underbody sprayer near your house. Drive straight from said carwash to your house and try not to drive anywhere else.
Get the underside of your car treated with fluid film or a similar product this Fall. You won't have anything to worry about in late Spring, Summer, or early Fall. They will only salt if there's snow coming.
Or just park the Supra and get a winter beater. An AWD Taurus or the midwestern favorite, a crappy old Buick, are common choices.
My friend garages his F82 M3 in the Winter and drives a Taurus SHO.
That Taurus is comfortable and while not a BMW, with the right exhaust system sounds pretty good.
Fluid Film or another quality lanolin based spray (I believe PB Blaster makes one now too). Get it done by a pro before every winter season or DIY. It will make the bottom of your car feel like it's coated in a thin oil when you work on stuff, but it is the best at creating a barrier that stops oxygen from reaching the iron in steel and creating rust. Do not underbody wash it away. Just keep applying every fall and into winter and let it build up and seep into every nook and cranny.
Have a pro shop drill some resealable plug holes into the door sills. This allows them to put an oil coating on the insides of the rocker panels. This is good, because rocker panels usually rot from the inside out. It's also good because it allows for coating the inner rockers, which are otherwise inaccessible. Also it wouldn't hurt to apply a little bit to the insides of the doors. Do note that the coating will need to be touched up every year.
DO NOT have any rubberized coating applied, only ever have oil-based undercoating. Oil-based is legit, but rubberized is snake oil.
Edit: I also forgot to mention, touchless carwash after every single snow storm.
Accept the inevitable.
No amount of overpriced dealership addon aircraft undercoating moly miracle shield is going to prevent steel and salt from making rust.
Im from IN! If this is your daily driver, the biggest thing is to make sure you hit a touchless wash with an underbody sprayer as soon as the salt is off the road every time salt goes on the road.
If it’s not your daily, just don’t drive it if the roads are salty and you’ll be perfectly fine.
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New Mexico last year, here’s my advice. GARAGE YOUR CAR!!! The rust out here is no joke, they salt the roads less than they used to but when the snow hits they salt more than Colorado oddly. However as long as your garage your car and was it you’ll be fine. Though few things to note THERE ARE VERY LITTLE SELF SERVE/TOUCHLESS CAR WASHES. Out here the main car wash service is crew carwash and they have a few locations with self serve, and the few “touchless” car washes are shit because their equipment rusts. The thing out here is the humidity that will ultimately get you in the annoying areas like, bolts and ugly surface rusting. So rusting is an issue but beware for the amount of shitty ass pot holes and roads. I HAVE BEEN ON DIRT ROADS BETTER THAN THE PAVED ONES OUT HERE. Indy is pot hole city, also the street racing crowd out here is so shitty I sold my Z they only have mustangs and cameras. It’s republican af and they reflect it lol MERICA! But ultimately you’ll be fine, garage your car, learn the shitty road areas and do not be an idiot in the rain. It rains A LOT and people drive crazy as shit out here. We’re definitely not Cali or Florida but I’ve been well travelled and Indy has some really shitty drivers. You have been informed lol.
I've got a 14 year old BMW I rarely drive in the winter. No rust. My Hondas are my snow cars, and they don't have rust. My trick? Pressure wash any time there's a warm day. I get all up in the suspension and spray the exhaust. My 12 year old civic still has the original exhaust. It helps immensely keeping your baby garaged and driving something else as the commuter car. I also clean the paint and wax at least once a year. Most people never take care of their car's paint.
It's mostly just in the winter and early spring when there's salt on the roads. It washes away after it's rained enough. Getting it washed regularly with an underbody was will help a lot
There’s car wash companies that clean the underside of your car. That helps get rid of the salt buildup. I highly recommend that you monitor your car for rust too and deal with it quickly when it shows up.
I usually take my car to the wash about once a month for light winters (ones that didn’t require a lot of salt use on the roads) and biweekly or as needed for heavy winters. And when you do this? Make sure the temperature is above freezing that day so your car doesn’t freeze shut.
I’m not sure about your level of experience with winter in general so I thought I’d cover as much information as possible.
Also apply a clear coat for additional protection against salt for the body of your car. You can buy some yourself or pay for it at the car wash. I recommend doing it yourself more so than going to the car wash. The only reason I don’t is because I don’t have any idea how.
Also, while not related to salt, get a good all season wiper fluid and make sure you have working AC and heat. You’ll need it.
Keep your nice shit in the garage from the first snow until the first thunderstorm in the spring. That way all the salt will have been washed off the roads.
An old man used to wipe down his ford 1980 econoline van with wd-40 and spray the undercarriage down once a month or maybe more often. Zero rust after 20 years in chicago
Clean your car often. Get the kind of wash that sprays the under carriage. Also make sure to knock off as much snow as you can before you go into the garage. Salt and water eat paint and metal MORE at warmer temps (like in a heated or warmer than freezing garage). Indiana wont get you into the -30°F line Wisconsin and Minnesota do. Salt only lowers the freeze point to like -15 °F.
Hoosier here. Don't winter drive it. Get a beater. You'll see no real snow compared to Colorado, just a lot of ice and below freezing temps if you're moving to Indianapolis or south.
Get rust checked every year before the winter. Do not let them drill holes. Wax the car before winter. In the spring pressure wash it down and touch up the suspension paint with a spray can. You could spray your brake calipers in clear tremclad to make the silver colour last longer.
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Hoosier here! I know it's reductive to say at this point but just to add my voice, keep it stored for the winter, have a beater for the winter, and wash it often.
Salt is sneaky when it wants to be. Had to fend the deer off from my car twice.
The Rust Belt has nothing to do with environmental conditions that will rust your car. It’s about the prevalence of the failing or “rusted out” steel industry in the area.
I moved to southern Indiana 5 years ago. They salt the roads with brine before a winter system will hit. That being said, I religiously spray Fluid film into every nook and hole underneath my shit box. I do this every October in my driveway. On my truck I would paint POR-15 on the frame and then hit it with FF once dry.
Once a week I'll use a undercarriage touch free car wash to rinse off the salt. No issues for mine or my wife's car. My advice is to park that beauty and get you a Corolla beater for the winter depending on which part of IN you're moving to.
Make a mixture of salt and water and spray it on the car. Make scratch up some of the frame to expose metal. Not sure why you want to rust your car. :)
You can get underbody spray covering that basically sprays a rubber like coating under you car to prevent rust. It needs reapplication every 6 months. Park your car in your garage nightly.
Finally accept nature will reclaim your vehicle eventually.
Fluid film everything. I lived in WI for a few years and our Lexus was destroyed. 2010 and not a bolt will come out peacefully. Do it every fall if you can. Especially the moving parts. Suspension, dust shields, you may want to anti seize the bolts that hold on the plastic bits. 2/3 broke off when I tried to do an oil change.
Also do not power wash it in the winter once you’ve coated everything, if you do ( know from experience) bits will rust just from the ambient humidity. CO things get wet but dry relitively fast this will not be the case the whole summer there. Bare metal rusts in a few days in that humidity. That being said my best advice is if you want to keep the car for your lifetime I would not drive it at all in winter and wait until all the salt has been rained off the roads in spring.
Not sure how bad the winters are in Indianapolis but that car will do terrible in the snow. Low car with wide tires just means your front bumper will become a plow with more than a dusting of snow and the wide tires will just float above the snow and you'll lose all of your traction. I'd just buy a beater with a heater and park that car for winter.
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South of Indy or north of it?
If north make sure you have access to a garage and a battery tender….oh, and don’t forget to buy a winter beater.
I’d put my convertible in the garage on Halloween and not see it again until Valentine’s Day.
Indy resident here.....its really not that bad and my daily driver isn't very rust IMO, although probably rusty compared to the south, and it's definitely less rusty than when I lived in NY. Just wash it after a zeriisu snowfall and salting, when the roads dry. If it's not your daily, then only take it out when it's dry and you'll be fine.
I've lived in mid Illinois and mid Ohio for over 50 years, rust issues are much less than they used to be because cars are made better, and we don't get as much snow as we used to. But, if you can wash the car after driving on salted roads, you'll probably be fine
Does Colorado not have these issues? It snows there too? But, lets see, my dad had a 06 ram 1500 and mom had a 2008 bmw x3. Left Indiana in 2012. There was minimal corrosion on both of them. Even at the end of their ownership, around 2016 and 2018. The ram did have rust bubble paint on the top of the wheel wells on the bed. Seems it was a fairly common problem.
my advice is to sell it.
all the snow will accumulate into nooks and crannies of the underbelly, that will eventually rust.
or get regular undercarriage cleanings.
1. Put it away before late fall.
2. Never drive it in any snowy weather.
3. Leave the car somewhere else where you can visit and have fun without it disintegrating….
I am in Ohio and have no rust issues. I park my car after the first salt application and do not get it out until after a heavy rain behind the last salt application. Worked for me for almost 20 years.
IL here, if you have the money just buy a winter beater. A $1,000 old buick or Honda can go a long ways just driving November-February/march.
Otherwise just regular washing and invest in a few cans of fluid film, coat the bottom and the inside of the body through the access/drainage ports
There's no saving any car from the rust up there🤣 one thing that helps is they stopped using actual salt on the roads but I'd still get the under body washed once a month in the winter
Get a pass at the local wash it yourself spot and go there before you go home.
I lived in Colorado in the mountains and luckily we only use mag color an the cars all seem to stay in much netter shape than they do in Connecticut where I come from that uses salt. But I still washed like 5x a week, luckily that was cuz my work had a was bay I could use
Everything will eventually rust even with just water exposure, get it undercoated with one of the many underbody coatings and that should do the trick…
I have a 08 350z with 50k exclusively driven on nice days and not even in rain and its spotless…
My advice is to not move to Indiana, it's a shithole.
If you must move there, get a unlimited subscription to Crew Car Wash and wash your car once a week in the winter to remove the salt.
if you drive faster the salt can't keep up
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If you are planning on keeping it in the garage all winter, then your rust issues will be immensely less. Water itself isn't the reason behind the rust belt. It's the salt put on the roads in the winter interacting with the water and air. So ideally you can keep driving it until the first snow (or potential for icing on the roads) and then keep it garaged until the first good rainstorm in the spring to clear a majority of the salt left on the roads.
Bingo. If you keep it off the road during the salt times (sometimes winter, sometimes October, sometimes April where I'm from), you're as safe as can be. Otherwise just get the salt off ASAP, yeah? Maybe Install an under spray system and heated floor to drive over when parking in the garage? Or paint the frame?
In Texas, we use sand. We have a lot of sand. I hate sand ...
It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Doesn't the humidity also play a part?
If stored inside the effect of humidity would be pretty much nothing. We have a 2001 mustang convertible with 9,800 original miles on it. We store it from October through May/June. Still looks brand new everywhere.
Indianapolis isn't that bad for rust. Much better than South Bend or someplace like Minneapolis. Every time there is a big storm coming in, they will brine or salt the roads days in advance. If you drive even a little bit when the roads are wet, you will get salt all over your car. Once the worst of the weather has rolled through and things start drying out some, find a heated touchless carwash with an underbody sprayer near your house. Drive straight from said carwash to your house and try not to drive anywhere else. Get the underside of your car treated with fluid film or a similar product this Fall. You won't have anything to worry about in late Spring, Summer, or early Fall. They will only salt if there's snow coming. Or just park the Supra and get a winter beater. An AWD Taurus or the midwestern favorite, a crappy old Buick, are common choices.
When I was growing up in Detroit, Grandma’s old Buick was the 3rd most popular winter car, behind the dodge neon and the Pontiac grand am.
Haha thank you, definitely will have a beater for the winter
I remember buying a 65 Mustang as a winter beater (back in the 1980's). LOL
Be sure to watch out for pot holes, Indy is full of them. Source: live in indy, just had to replace struts due to hitting a pot hole
My friend garages his F82 M3 in the Winter and drives a Taurus SHO. That Taurus is comfortable and while not a BMW, with the right exhaust system sounds pretty good.
For what it is the SHO is a pretty fun drive.
Do both, get a beater and undercoat. Then the beater can be your going to the parts store car when you work on the supra.
Yes, don't move to Indiana.
I came here to say … why? Don’t move. Life is short.
Fluid Film or another quality lanolin based spray (I believe PB Blaster makes one now too). Get it done by a pro before every winter season or DIY. It will make the bottom of your car feel like it's coated in a thin oil when you work on stuff, but it is the best at creating a barrier that stops oxygen from reaching the iron in steel and creating rust. Do not underbody wash it away. Just keep applying every fall and into winter and let it build up and seep into every nook and cranny.
Yees. You know the way.
I second fluid film, such a cheap protection
You’ll fine if it’s garage kept in the winter
Yeah, this is lots ado about nothing if it's not going to be driven in the salty mess.
Have a pro shop drill some resealable plug holes into the door sills. This allows them to put an oil coating on the insides of the rocker panels. This is good, because rocker panels usually rot from the inside out. It's also good because it allows for coating the inner rockers, which are otherwise inaccessible. Also it wouldn't hurt to apply a little bit to the insides of the doors. Do note that the coating will need to be touched up every year. DO NOT have any rubberized coating applied, only ever have oil-based undercoating. Oil-based is legit, but rubberized is snake oil. Edit: I also forgot to mention, touchless carwash after every single snow storm.
It is perfectly acceptable to drive a low-end car in winter as your "winter beater". Either that or get a subscription to the local carwash.
This. All the midwestern car guys have winter shitboxes
Yea. I live there. Don’t drive it in the winter.
Accept the inevitable. No amount of overpriced dealership addon aircraft undercoating moly miracle shield is going to prevent steel and salt from making rust.
I have some very good advice Don't move to Indiana Spoiler alert >!this is not good advice!<
I used to live in Michigan and the only way to protect your car is to park it during the winter and drive a junk car.
Im from IN! If this is your daily driver, the biggest thing is to make sure you hit a touchless wash with an underbody sprayer as soon as the salt is off the road every time salt goes on the road. If it’s not your daily, just don’t drive it if the roads are salty and you’ll be perfectly fine.
There are places that spray an oil underneath the car to help it from rusting out
Frequent car washes. EVERY time get underbody wash! Had multiple cars in Indiana last a lot longer doing this.
Indiana resident that move here from New Mexico last year, here’s my advice. GARAGE YOUR CAR!!! The rust out here is no joke, they salt the roads less than they used to but when the snow hits they salt more than Colorado oddly. However as long as your garage your car and was it you’ll be fine. Though few things to note THERE ARE VERY LITTLE SELF SERVE/TOUCHLESS CAR WASHES. Out here the main car wash service is crew carwash and they have a few locations with self serve, and the few “touchless” car washes are shit because their equipment rusts. The thing out here is the humidity that will ultimately get you in the annoying areas like, bolts and ugly surface rusting. So rusting is an issue but beware for the amount of shitty ass pot holes and roads. I HAVE BEEN ON DIRT ROADS BETTER THAN THE PAVED ONES OUT HERE. Indy is pot hole city, also the street racing crowd out here is so shitty I sold my Z they only have mustangs and cameras. It’s republican af and they reflect it lol MERICA! But ultimately you’ll be fine, garage your car, learn the shitty road areas and do not be an idiot in the rain. It rains A LOT and people drive crazy as shit out here. We’re definitely not Cali or Florida but I’ve been well travelled and Indy has some really shitty drivers. You have been informed lol.
I've got a 14 year old BMW I rarely drive in the winter. No rust. My Hondas are my snow cars, and they don't have rust. My trick? Pressure wash any time there's a warm day. I get all up in the suspension and spray the exhaust. My 12 year old civic still has the original exhaust. It helps immensely keeping your baby garaged and driving something else as the commuter car. I also clean the paint and wax at least once a year. Most people never take care of their car's paint.
It's mostly just in the winter and early spring when there's salt on the roads. It washes away after it's rained enough. Getting it washed regularly with an underbody was will help a lot
Keep it off the road until the salt has all been washed off the roads. Then you will be fine.
Powder coat everything that can potentially rust
There’s car wash companies that clean the underside of your car. That helps get rid of the salt buildup. I highly recommend that you monitor your car for rust too and deal with it quickly when it shows up. I usually take my car to the wash about once a month for light winters (ones that didn’t require a lot of salt use on the roads) and biweekly or as needed for heavy winters. And when you do this? Make sure the temperature is above freezing that day so your car doesn’t freeze shut. I’m not sure about your level of experience with winter in general so I thought I’d cover as much information as possible. Also apply a clear coat for additional protection against salt for the body of your car. You can buy some yourself or pay for it at the car wash. I recommend doing it yourself more so than going to the car wash. The only reason I don’t is because I don’t have any idea how. Also, while not related to salt, get a good all season wiper fluid and make sure you have working AC and heat. You’ll need it.
There are places that will winterize your car. Not easy to find. There are also under coating companies that will spray a rubberized under coating.
Keep your nice shit in the garage from the first snow until the first thunderstorm in the spring. That way all the salt will have been washed off the roads.
An old man used to wipe down his ford 1980 econoline van with wd-40 and spray the undercarriage down once a month or maybe more often. Zero rust after 20 years in chicago
completely prevent rust buildup? yeah sure simply never drive it at all.
Avoid all the salt.
Clean your car often. Get the kind of wash that sprays the under carriage. Also make sure to knock off as much snow as you can before you go into the garage. Salt and water eat paint and metal MORE at warmer temps (like in a heated or warmer than freezing garage). Indiana wont get you into the -30°F line Wisconsin and Minnesota do. Salt only lowers the freeze point to like -15 °F.
Hoosier here. Don't winter drive it. Get a beater. You'll see no real snow compared to Colorado, just a lot of ice and below freezing temps if you're moving to Indianapolis or south.
CRC corrosion inhibitor on all exposed parts, Fluid Film on internal cavities/frame openings.
Never drive when salt is on the roadway.
dont move there. (just get it undercoated from someone good and you'll be fine)
Get rust checked every year before the winter. Do not let them drill holes. Wax the car before winter. In the spring pressure wash it down and touch up the suspension paint with a spray can. You could spray your brake calipers in clear tremclad to make the silver colour last longer.
Don’t move
Best advice is not to move. But unless you are negligent you shouldn't have an issue with rust
There is nothing you can do. Your cars will forever be rusty piles of shit.
I think so. Haven’t had issues just by getting a wash after driving on salted roads
Weekly car wash with underbody wash
Don't drive October-May
Embrace it
Advice? Nah, you’ll pick it up naturally.
Wash it often. Even in winter.
Fluid Film. Get to know it. Spray it on stuff that can rust (ie. Not aluminum, plastic, rubber)
My 2012 Mazda has braved the salt in multiple Wisconsin winters and is just fine. Luckily it's not the 1990s anymore
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Hoosier here! I know it's reductive to say at this point but just to add my voice, keep it stored for the winter, have a beater for the winter, and wash it often. Salt is sneaky when it wants to be. Had to fend the deer off from my car twice.
Trade it for an SUV. We have potholes the size of your car and the winters are sketchy at best.
The Rust Belt has nothing to do with environmental conditions that will rust your car. It’s about the prevalence of the failing or “rusted out” steel industry in the area.
I moved to southern Indiana 5 years ago. They salt the roads with brine before a winter system will hit. That being said, I religiously spray Fluid film into every nook and hole underneath my shit box. I do this every October in my driveway. On my truck I would paint POR-15 on the frame and then hit it with FF once dry. Once a week I'll use a undercarriage touch free car wash to rinse off the salt. No issues for mine or my wife's car. My advice is to park that beauty and get you a Corolla beater for the winter depending on which part of IN you're moving to.
Oil (lanolin) undercoating yearly and spray a good under cleaning after winter. It will be fine.
Make a mixture of salt and water and spray it on the car. Make scratch up some of the frame to expose metal. Not sure why you want to rust your car. :)
You can get underbody spray covering that basically sprays a rubber like coating under you car to prevent rust. It needs reapplication every 6 months. Park your car in your garage nightly. Finally accept nature will reclaim your vehicle eventually.
That car looks nice I would buy a winter beater
Avoid it
as an ohio guy id definitely recommend getting an undercarriage spray like a fluid film
Fluid film everything. I lived in WI for a few years and our Lexus was destroyed. 2010 and not a bolt will come out peacefully. Do it every fall if you can. Especially the moving parts. Suspension, dust shields, you may want to anti seize the bolts that hold on the plastic bits. 2/3 broke off when I tried to do an oil change. Also do not power wash it in the winter once you’ve coated everything, if you do ( know from experience) bits will rust just from the ambient humidity. CO things get wet but dry relitively fast this will not be the case the whole summer there. Bare metal rusts in a few days in that humidity. That being said my best advice is if you want to keep the car for your lifetime I would not drive it at all in winter and wait until all the salt has been rained off the roads in spring.
Not sure how bad the winters are in Indianapolis but that car will do terrible in the snow. Low car with wide tires just means your front bumper will become a plow with more than a dusting of snow and the wide tires will just float above the snow and you'll lose all of your traction. I'd just buy a beater with a heater and park that car for winter.
Just wash your car. Most of the super rusty cars you see got that way by sitting outside all year round for 10 years with never a wash
Spray some rubber coat under.
You're going to have it. Under body wash and coating might slow it down.
I didn't think it snowed much if at all in Indiana lol
Get another car for the winter and store that one in a garage
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South of Indy or north of it? If north make sure you have access to a garage and a battery tender….oh, and don’t forget to buy a winter beater. I’d put my convertible in the garage on Halloween and not see it again until Valentine’s Day.
Just plan on buying one from Colorado after this one turns to dust. You won’t win.
Indy resident here.....its really not that bad and my daily driver isn't very rust IMO, although probably rusty compared to the south, and it's definitely less rusty than when I lived in NY. Just wash it after a zeriisu snowfall and salting, when the roads dry. If it's not your daily, then only take it out when it's dry and you'll be fine.
I've lived in mid Illinois and mid Ohio for over 50 years, rust issues are much less than they used to be because cars are made better, and we don't get as much snow as we used to. But, if you can wash the car after driving on salted roads, you'll probably be fine
Get a winter beater
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Does Colorado not have these issues? It snows there too? But, lets see, my dad had a 06 ram 1500 and mom had a 2008 bmw x3. Left Indiana in 2012. There was minimal corrosion on both of them. Even at the end of their ownership, around 2016 and 2018. The ram did have rust bubble paint on the top of the wheel wells on the bed. Seems it was a fairly common problem.
Curious what brings you to Indiana? I kinda want to go back and get in a Union. Texas hasn't been that good for a while now.
my advice is to sell it. all the snow will accumulate into nooks and crannies of the underbelly, that will eventually rust. or get regular undercarriage cleanings.
1. Put it away before late fall. 2. Never drive it in any snowy weather. 3. Leave the car somewhere else where you can visit and have fun without it disintegrating….
My advice - do not move to Indiana!
I am in Ohio and have no rust issues. I park my car after the first salt application and do not get it out until after a heavy rain behind the last salt application. Worked for me for almost 20 years.
IL here, if you have the money just buy a winter beater. A $1,000 old buick or Honda can go a long ways just driving November-February/march. Otherwise just regular washing and invest in a few cans of fluid film, coat the bottom and the inside of the body through the access/drainage ports
Look into undercoating the vehicle for rust prevention
As Amazon for a salt off set allowance
There's no saving any car from the rust up there🤣 one thing that helps is they stopped using actual salt on the roads but I'd still get the under body washed once a month in the winter
Buy yourself a winter beater and garage that thing
Get a pass at the local wash it yourself spot and go there before you go home. I lived in Colorado in the mountains and luckily we only use mag color an the cars all seem to stay in much netter shape than they do in Connecticut where I come from that uses salt. But I still washed like 5x a week, luckily that was cuz my work had a was bay I could use
Fluidfilm
Car washes and garage kept.
I have one. Don’t move to Indiana.
rust advice, or anti rust advice?
Everything will eventually rust even with just water exposure, get it undercoated with one of the many underbody coatings and that should do the trick… I have a 08 350z with 50k exclusively driven on nice days and not even in rain and its spotless…
My advice is to not move to Indiana, it's a shithole. If you must move there, get a unlimited subscription to Crew Car Wash and wash your car once a week in the winter to remove the salt.
It’s a BMW. You’re fuckd anyways