Brutal Winter Car

[mfcentex]

I live in Austin just like you and haven’t stopped driving my car at all. What exactly are you scared of? It’s a car. Not a porcelain show piece.

I lived in Illinois for 20 years with road salt. The last car I had in Illinois was about 10 years old with body panel rust. Any vehicle over 10 years old seemed to have rust. It seems that brine is even worse than road salt.

 

[mfcentex]

Amazon sells a road salt test kit.

Ha! I have one for my pool. I'll put it on the road .

 

[dribs15]

The way to tell if it's ok to drive your car is to look in your pants. If you find your manhood, it is ok to drive your car.*


*May not apply to those with automatics.

 

[Throat Yogurt]

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[hawk02]

All of you complaining about road salt obviously haven’t lived on the coast. The salt in the air is far worse than any road salt. You can avoid road salt by parking your car until the salt is washed off the road. No way to avoid salt air unless you store your car in some hermetically sealed container.

I have spent the last five winters living 300 yards from the Atlantic Ocean. It is a must to rinse or wash your vehicle every 7 - 10 days if you want it to last. The life of an air conditioning compressor is about 6-7 years. They basically dissolve from the salt air.

 

[coffee_time]

I lived in Illinois for 20 years with road salt. The last car I had in Illinois was about 10 years old with body panel rust. Any vehicle over 10 years old seemed to have rust. It seems that brine is even worse than road salt.

Yeah and I lived in CT/RI/NY/NJ for 25 years... not a single one of my cars rusted out.

Drive your car. Rinse it off if you want after you're done if you're concerned with salt/brine.

 

[Finally-a-V]

Depending on what they're using, brine is worse (but cheaper) than salt. Many DOT's are learning now that their bridges are rotting faster due to brine. Many have now changed the make up of brine to more "organic" mixtures to stop the wear.

 

[1Evil55]

I lived in Illinois for 20 years with road salt. The last car I had in Illinois was about 10 years old with body panel rust. Any vehicle over 10 years old seemed to have rust. It seems that brine is even worse than road salt.

My 2018 Jeep was repainted in 2021, in Chitcago. Part of that was due to shit quality of Stellanis. I do believe the road salt contributed the speed at which the paint turned to bubbles.

I gauge the salt on the road with rainfalls in the spring time. Need at least 3 good dumps of rain to wash the salt off the street.

 

[5VBW Nick]

You don't wanna drive your new $130k car on roads like this, covered with sand and salt.

 

[mfcentex]

My 2018 Jeep was repainted in 2021, in Chitcago. Part of that was due to shit quality of Stellanis. I do believe the road salt contributed the speed at which the paint turned to bubbles.

I gauge the salt on the road with rainfalls in the spring time. Need at least 3 good dumps of rain to wash the salt off the street.

Good info and good comparison for me. I have a 2013 Ram and the paint has no issues. It sees very limited winter weather (one week in the mountains a year).