to try and steer this thread back on topic.....
If you can spare a couple of hours to give the car a once over and get some sort of protection wax down, that would be best.
After that, through the winter months, mimimise contact with the paintwork due to the increase of general crap thats stuck to the paint work.
Today, i managed to give a quick wash and a coat of Collinite 476 down. I had already done a pre winter detail last week.
This will be the last time i hand wash the car for a few months. To keep the salt and crap to a minium, i take my car to a local tesco petrtol station, spray the whole car with Valet pro citrus pre wash (sprayed from a 5 litre pressure pump thingy) and then rinsed using the power washer at the petrol station.
I plan to do this every couple of weeks and will only take 20 mins tops!
Hope this helps
Rich