34 degree car wash
 

just washed my car, its 34 degrees out. got all of the road salt and crap off, but when i went to dry it, there was a thin sheet of ice on some spots. is this bad? i dont see how its different than ice on the car in general, but just making sure. looked pretty cool

there seriously has to be a hidden camera in here somewhere. am i on hidden camera? seriously.

now was that really necessary?

Ice on the car that way is very bad. It's different from the ice that comes from a ice/snow storm. Go out there with some hot water and try and get it off if you can. It may mess your paint up depending on how long it's on there for.

Its already gone, but how is it worse? Its just water, not soapy stuff
Results of a quick wash
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7...kgroundfn0.jpg

BTW this is using my new camera, and does anyone know a good place to repaint my back bumper?

When water freezes it expands. However, as you notice it sticks to the car. The water will stick to the paint when it freezes forcing it to expand, thus could ruin paint. This is I guess how it would work, although I am not sure.

Dude your fine. I washed my car the other day with buckets of hot soapy water.

i have been doing alot of research on this subject and know that having car wash water freeze on your car has a substantial effect on vtec. causing the vtec bearings to wear uneven slowing down the vtec spool up and eventually damaging vtec all together. it is reccomended when this happens to open the vtec titanium seals and use a hair dryer to dry it back up. just when putting it back together make sure you use a new honda oem vtec headgasket.

And of course it is common sense to flush your VTEC fluid when you do all of the above.

I dont see how washing the exterior effects the interior, but I dont have vtec

i would look a little closer you probbably will find it

bwahahahahaha thats great but I think yea it would cause damage

No, I dont see that as being serious at all. If I hosed down my motor, MAYBE it would be relevant

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nice..

LMf'inAO

LOL Ray, I thought me being a jack ass was going to be enough but I guess not.

I'm sorry, but was this thread really necessary. You answered your own question in the first post.

Sure your car/paint is probably better off clean on a warm day without ice on it, but if your car is DD or it sees snow and ice how is the frozen water from washing your car any worse then the snow or ice? If anything it should be cleaner water.

uh vtec is controlled by the car sucking in wind and spooling it through the vtec compacitor, hence vtec mode. if the car is covered in ice or snow the vtec wont be able to spool correctly due to improper air flow

You guys know that you can just buy a vtech warmer right? No problems!

http://www.turbobits.co.uk/acatalog/...er_kit_320.jpg

yeah but then the VGT'S go sky rocket high causing bearing faliure as well. what most of my customers do is redirect their airvent ducts to the vtec capasitor and when they turn on the heat it simmulates real life summer temps on the vtec system making it more durable and able to concentrate quicker.