Am I stupid to Keep in garage

[Master_Cylinder]

So you have a brand new(ish) Gladiator you keep in a garage. No issue with that. You don't drive it often. But you say your wife's car is out in the cold, snow, crappy weather. One car garage?

It were me, I'd give some thought to letting the car that's driven get the garage, buy a cover for the manly Jeep. Unless your wife thinks the current setup is OK, clearing the windshield.

The vehicle my wife drives, is the vehicle that gets the garage!

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[CyberHero]

So you have a brand new(ish) Gladiator you keep in a garage. No issue with that. You don't drive it often. But you say your wife's car is out in the cold, snow, crappy weather. One car garage?

It were me, I'd give some thought to letting the car that's driven get the garage, buy a cover for the manly Jeep. Unless your wife thinks the current setup is OK, clearing the windshield.

She’s got remote start she’s good but it’s been below zero so my dogs are in the garage in her spot until the temps get back in at least high teens prob 20s. But that vehicle (23 Toyota Highlander) will get used and used a lot for 5ish years and we’ll trade it. It’s paid off too but the jeep I’m hoping I’m only owner for its duration

 

[loganjeeps]

I will just say I feel your pain OP. I'm in the southeast so don't have this as an ongoing problem but two weekends ago ended up on a highway that had just been sprayed down with brine in preparation for bad weather without realizing it until I got near the brine truck.

i had a small stroke and promptly spent an hour hosing and washing the under carriage.

 

[Pismo61]

Ya I may do that. Our plan is to leave the Midwest and head back to AZ this year I’m hoping. I’m going to call local shop and get fluid film pricing

looks like we have the same jeep lol

If thats the plan,I wouldnt drive it in the snow unless I had to.Here in the southwest there is no rust.

 

[RHINO79]

Brine and tons of salt used here mn ,wi border , my friends 2019 silverado has the rocker panels rusted through already.

 

[CyberHero]

Brine and tons of salt used here mn ,wi border , my friends 2019 silverado has the rocker panels rusted through already.

That’s wild smh I’ll be damned

 

[RHINO79]

I mean - I live in WI and never not drive my Jeeps because of snow/salt/road slush.

Do what you want to do I guess...

The amount of brine and salt they use in mn,wi you wouldn't believe it till you see it.

 

[RHINO79]

As someone who spent most of my life in Wisconsin, here's what you do...

1) Wait for the last snowfall of the season, when you're sure it won't snow again.

2) Then wait for a couple days of moderate/heavy rain (washes remaining salt off road)

3) Pressure spray wash the hell out of the undercarriage. I mean a good 20 minute spraying underneath, in every possible crack/hidden place under there.

4) Enjoy a rust-free vehicle for at least a decade or more.

The daily drivers, I use a yard garden sprayer underneath the vehicle and move it a little at a time dragging it the length of the vehicle ?

 

[RHINO79]

Maybe buy two, use one in the winter!

 

[ShadowsPapa]

The vehicle my wife drives, is the vehicle that gets the garage!

I hear ya there for sure.
When we first moved here, before the garage was added onto and my shop was built, I had a lot of tools and lawn equipment that needed to be inside, the garage was full, stuffed. I had marching orders.......... I had 1 week to get the garage to the point where HERE vehicle could be in the garage.

Here in the southwest there is no rust.

I spent a week with a fellow AMC nut who lived in a Phoenix suburb. Seeing cars from the 1960s and 70s with no rust - it was amazing. Cars that had long since rotted away where I lived were perfect save for trashed paint and plastic and rubber - destroyed by the sun. but the sun doesn't rot metal.
My SX4 came from a town in CA, maybe Oroville? It seems correct. zero rust other than all the surface rust because the sun baked the paint off of it and it was bare steel on the horizontal surfaces. But the underside was factory new as far as paint and undercoating and no rust.
I had to drive it a couple of years in our winter - year around, as the plan was originally it was to be my daily driver.
After a few years of fixing up, restoration and painting, I was convinced by my wife and the guy who owned the shop that sprayed it after I did the body prep that it would not see salt or winter.

Brine and tons of salt used here mn ,wi border , my friends 2019 silverado has the rocker panels rusted through already.

Yup - if there's 34 degree temps in the forecast, they brine the bridges and overpasses in anticipation of frost.
Funny, when I grew up and commuted miles to work in the 70s and 80s, they did no such thing and we all lived to talk about those days. But today someone gripes if their street isn't pristine and free of any sign of snow within 12 hours of a storm. There was no brine, there was no pretreating, we just got there and back. And that was with cars like Camaros, Mustangs, AMXs and Javelins - rear wheel drive of all things. Amazing.

I need to get a couple current pics of our Jeeps - the slop and slush and salt, the highways are literally WHITE like they've been whitewashed. You can't tell the original color of the concrete even where it's bare of snow and ice.

Mudflaps and running boards or these power steps help - but one still needs to take care of the undercarriage -

 

[DieselDave98]

Mine is a weekend/fun vehicle so i really don’t want to have it out in all this salt and snow. I will if i have to, but if it doesn’t see the light of day again till March I’d be ok with that lol. The same went for my motorcycles, they wouldn’t be back on the road till after the first soaking rain in the spring to wash all the salt off the road. I was traumatized by losing my 2006 Ram to a rusted out frame. It ran perfectly, what a waste, i had to get rid of it but if not for the rust it probably would have had at least another 50k miles left in her. So in my opinion, no you’re not crazy.

 

[DieselDave98]

Mine is a weekend/fun vehicle so i really don’t want to have it out in all this salt and snow. I will if i have to, but if it doesn’t see the light of day again till March I’d be ok with that lol. The same went for my motorcycles, they wouldn’t be back on the road till after the first soaking rain in the spring to wash all the salt off the road. I was traumatized by losing my 2006 Ram to a rusted out frame. It ran perfectly, what a waste, i had to get rid of it but if not for the rust it probably would have had at least another 50k miles left in her. So in my opinion, no you’re not crazy.

Isn't it ridiculous that a truck frame will rust out in the 21st century

 

[Pismo61]

Yes the the sun is bad on the rubber,softops,and vinyl in the southwest if left outside 24/7.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Yes the the sun is bad on the rubber,softops,and vinyl in the southwest if left outside 24/7.

My SX4 had been sitting in a grassy field for about 10 years by the time I got it and had it trucked to Iowa.
That stuff is easier to deal with than the structure of a unibody car.

 

[RHINO79]

I hear ya there for sure.
When we first moved here, before the garage was added onto and my shop was built, I had a lot of tools and lawn equipment that needed to be inside, the garage was full, stuffed. I had marching orders.......... I had 1 week to get the garage to the point where HERE vehicle could be in the garage.


I spent a week with a fellow AMC nut who lived in a Phoenix suburb. Seeing cars from the 1960s and 70s with no rust - it was amazing. Cars that had long since rotted away where I lived were perfect save for trashed paint and plastic and rubber - destroyed by the sun. but the sun doesn't rot metal.
My SX4 came from a town in CA, maybe Oroville? It seems correct. zero rust other than all the surface rust because the sun baked the paint off of it and it was bare steel on the horizontal surfaces. But the underside was factory new as far as paint and undercoating and no rust.
I had to drive it a couple of years in our winter - year around, as the plan was originally it was to be my daily driver.
After a few years of fixing up, restoration and painting, I was convinced by my wife and the guy who owned the shop that sprayed it after I did the body prep that it would not see salt or winter.



Yup - if there's 34 degree temps in the forecast, they brine the bridges and overpasses in anticipation of frost.
Funny, when I grew up and commuted miles to work in the 70s and 80s, they did no such thing and we all lived to talk about those days. But today someone gripes if their street isn't pristine and free of any sign of snow within 12 hours of a storm. There was no brine, there was no pretreating, we just got there and back. And that was with cars like Camaros, Mustangs, AMXs and Javelins - rear wheel drive of all things. Amazing.

I need to get a couple current pics of our Jeeps - the slop and slush and salt, the highways are literally WHITE like they've been whitewashed. You can't tell the original color of the concrete even where it's bare of snow and ice.

Mudflaps and running boards or these power steps help - but one still needs to take care of the undercarriage -

Yes we all drove rear wheel drives back then, I drove a 1970 mustang in high school, one wheel wonder with micky Thompsons, and a 65 tempest wagon, also 1970 one wheel wonder f100 Ford 3 on the tree. ?

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