Dry Ice Media Blasting

Dry Ice Cleaning: The Coolest Way to Remove Rust, Grime, and Undercoating

Extend the life of your vehicle and other automotive or industrial equipment with dry ice blasting performed by the pros at Aberle Auto Body & Collision. As the only dry ice blasting provider in the area, we use the Cold Jet brand. Same-day service may be available.

An alternative to power washing, this form of blasting is a safe, waterless, and eco-friendly method for cleaning your vehicle’s body without damaging the surface. We’re licensed, bonded, and insured for dry ice media blasting services. Call for service or a free consultation or estimate.

Dry Ice Cleaning is a process that uses dry ice pellets propelled by compressed air to attack surface contaminants like rust, old undercoating, and flaky paint, but it is harmless to painted surfaces.

Dry ice blasting has many benefits over traditional blasting media. Here are a few:

• Superior clean
• Non-abrasive, non-flammable, and non-conductive
• No secondary waste cleanup is required
• Can get into tight spaces that many other methods cannot
• Environmentally friendly: meets USDA, FDA, and EPA guidelines
• No exposure to chemicals or grit media
• Clean enough for the food industry, strong enough for everything else
• Removes rust prolonging the life of the vehicle

What if your vehicle has survived all this time with its original paint intact? And it’s got decades of grease, grime, undercoating, and surface rust to contend with? You’d want to preserve as much of the original surface as possible, so anything abrasive wouldn’t do.

Along with the gentle treatment of the substrate, there are other significant benefits. “There’s nothing left behind other than the dust and dirt the process removes,” he says. As it cleans, the dry ice sublimates and disappears, leaving no sand or liquid behind to clean up. Safety equipment is the normal PPE worn when media blasting, with an emphasis on eye, ear, and breathing protection.

For vintage car owners that want to preserve undercarriages and engine bays without removing the paint, which may be original, it’s a relatively quick process.

Dry ice cleaning’s usefulness goes well beyond undercarriages, too. The process can be dialed back to for more precise cleaning of everything from instrumentation, electronics, taillight assemblies, carburetors, emblems, and electrical components.

Of course, this approach isn’t the best application for every situation.