In a message dated 4/14/07 12:26:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
magikvw@GMAIL.COM writes:

> Salt and snow will eventually take their toll but if people would wash thei
> cars more often in the winter it certainly would help keep the rust at bay
> longer.
>
>

kinda hard to wash your car when the temp is below freezing..   which is the
case in most northeast states the majority of the winter.
you car gets covered with salt in october, and stays that way till april.

when i was coming back from GA last month, towing my westy, i went thru 10
miles or so of the nastiest road salt on i-95 south of baltimore..  i had
planned my return trip (post V-day snowstorm) to try to make it back on all dry
roads, but got caught in a freak snowsquall that activated the previously dry salt
on the roads and turned it into a nasty wet brine..  temps were in the 20's
..  the van, trailer and westy were totally white with that sh*t.  when i got
back i took the van to one of those do-it-yourself car washes to try to spray
it off but that was kinda pointless,  the water froze as soon as it hit the
metal and all my doors froze shut..  didnt even was the salt off.
so it sat like that. nothing you can do.

fun times in the salt belt.

chris

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