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Heating Garage Speeds Corrosion?

In thinking about insulating the garage, and installing a 240 volt electric heater to quickly warm things up so I can do a bit of cold-weather wrenching, I'm also a bit concerned in what I've heard about a heated garage's tendency to exacerbate salt-induced corrosion, which makes perfect sense when considering the indelible relationship of heat to chemical reactivity.

Being mindful of two things...that I continue to (not quite daily) drive my 944 through the northern Vermont winter (exposing it to salt), but that I would not generally keep the garage heated excepting when I'd be wrenching on my car - I guess I'm asking folks here who might be in the same boat and whose garages are already insulated...and heated only during "times of wrenching," to chime in about their experiences with heat increasing rates of corrosion.

Note about my car: That the factory undercoating is still solid and viable, and that I treat other exposed (non factory undercoated) bits every year with an application of Fluid Film (greasy/waxy undercoating) - which continues to get my car's bottom through the winter pretty much unscathed.
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