[speedygonzales]

My replacement starter started cranking slow or not at all as it got hot. This time I got a Nippon style (no nose cone) type from Summit. That's a whole nother story about shimming those but I noticed my old starter was rusted like it was 5o years old.

This paragraph is useless only to entertain.
The original starter was grenaded by my ex-friend that thinks he knows auto repair. You know the idiot that you tell your engine won't start so he thinks he has a secret way to turn the key that will magically make a EFI engine start. So when it failed to start but got a small fire from the cylinders that weren't firing, BOOM blew the nose cone right off the starter. So I got this cheap auto parts one that I just replaced.

Back to the story for which I would like your opinion.
Anyway, as I was changing out the starters, I noticed the old one was way badly rusted. Then I remembered that I go through an automated carwash quite often and get an under car wash.

So is the under carwash douching the starter and perhaps giving them some issues?

Something I never gave thought to as I went through the carwash!!!!!!!