Mobile Oil Spraying & Equipment Washing in Aurora

Wellington Street is Aurora’s main east-west road, crossing Yonge Street at the old village core and running east to the Highway 404 interchange. Bayview Avenue, Leslie Street, St. John’s Sideroad and Bloomington Road carry traffic across the rest of town, with Bloomington marking the line with Richmond Hill. All of them are salted through the winter, and most commutes out of Aurora mean time on Highway 404 or Yonge Street, where brine spray coats undercarriages kilometre after kilometre.

The landscape adds its own challenge. Aurora sits partly on the Oak Ridges Moraine, and a large part of the southeast is protected Greenbelt, so the town has rural properties and sideroads alongside its subdivisions. Vehicles and equipment that run gravel and salted rural roads pick up a mix of grit, mud and brine that clings to frames, suspension parts and wheel wells, exactly where corrosion likes to start.

Aurora’s working side is concentrated in its employment areas: Industrial Parkway North and South near the downtown, and the newer lands out by Highway 404 around Wellington Street and St. John’s Sideroad, where construction is under way. That brings service vans, delivery trucks, trailers and construction equipment into town every day, and much of it stays parked outside through the winter.

Then there’s the freeze-thaw cycle. Through an Ontario winter, salt dries onto steel, gets re-wetted by the next thaw and works a little deeper into every seam each time. An oil film on that steel keeps moisture and salt from sitting directly against the metal, which is the whole point of oil spraying before and during salt season.