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States That Use Road Salt; Finding a "Rust Free" Metro
Topic Started: Feb 7 2012, 03:03 PM (8,582 Views)
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Facetious Educated Donkey

key4202003
Feb 7 2012, 05:38 PM
how do people beat the salt, not drive in the snow or what? how do they stop the rust from forming?
If you want to pay for it you can get undercoating applied to your car. Maybe washing the underbelly at a car wash occasionally would help. :dunno

Since the frame horns around the front axles and rear suspension mounts are the worst, you an apply any of a number of rust preventive products yourself to the problem areas.

I spray problem areas with a heavy spray lubricant. Some have sprayed used motor oil on the horns etc. There is also POR15, Rust-Oleum products, Ospho, Evapo-rust and truck bed liners among others that you can apply yourself. :D

I have seen a whitish powder on some of the more dangerous turns around our area in central Idaho. Not everywhere. In town they spread a gravel containing small hard rocks on the roads. In the Spring it creates a lot of DUST. :rasp
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Feb 7 2012, 08:45 PM
allmountain is correct about Seattle. I couldn't believe the reports as they sounded so proud.
Lol! I couldn't believe how proud they were, either! It was like the Seattle bureaucrats had just split the fuckin' atom or something!

"Hey taxpayers! We just discovered that salt melts ice!"

Honestly I don't think it will make much difference in terms of rust. Snow is so rare here that there will be little salt, and what there is will be followed by about, I don't know, FOUR SOLID MONTHS OF RAIN.

The ridiculous amounts of rain should wash most of it off the roads and off of our cars before it can do any real damage. I hope... :(
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Oh how I love Florida. True we do have salt in the air itself, but that only causes surface rust unless something sits for years and years. Washing the car once a year would solve that surface rust problem.
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