Thread: What do you need to do after sand driving?

Can't hurt to take it through an underbody wash, I would, sand means salt, if it's on a beach, regardless of whether you were near the water.

Baz.

wash the crap out of everything, a couple of hours with a soaker hose works best. Then grease everything.

Assuming the D4 EAS compressor is the same set up as the D3, it might pay to remove the shield as a fair bit of sand can accumulate in there & cause the pump to get hot.

X2 ,on the sand under compressor cover.


Cheers Ken

Thanks to all for your replies.

Someone at work suggested I flush out the frame, so I did that this afternoon by pointing the jet of water into the various holes into the ladder frame until the water in the drain holes was clear.

I also looked for other places (including compressor cover) to flush.

When I drove the car away and swept up the sand afterwards it amounted to around 1-2 cups of sand.

To put it into perspective, I had driven back through torrential rain on the freeway with a lot of standing water etc, so I'm sure that would have flushed a lot of the sand already, but it was still interesting to see where sand had settled, including one place that was easy to hit with the host from the side, but was shielded from any road splashes.

I was on the beach a few weeks ago.

The day after, Brisbane had one almighty storm and I drove though it. The rain was so heavy at times that I couldn't see the windscreen washers.

I also drove through pretty deep standing water, sometimes at speed.

The car has been washed several times since then and it's rained heaps, yet when I changed a tyre on the weekend, I was amazed that there was still sand in lots of places on the frame and around the spare wheel bay.

Sand just gets everywhere...and continues to re-appear for ages.

I find the same inside, I vaccuum the car and days later, I keep finding sand in the same places I'd previously cleaned.

Spot on !!
The EAS Compressor cover has a drain hole, and the sand works its way into the housing pretty easily.
All the underbody covers also hold alot of sand etc etc.
After a trip to Fraser or North Shore, l take it to a underbody wash, and spend about $10.00 at least.
When l get it home I also give the car the big once over down all the nooks and crannies.
The old soaker hose also works wonders, if you can spare the water.
I think l get most of the sand out, but when it goes in for a service, the mechanic shakes his head , with all the sand that still comes out.

work mates years ago after driving on beaches used to come home and put sprinklers under their cars for hours just to flush the sand off the underneath.
they also used to wash their cars in diesel before they went to ward off rust on their toyotass