I'm surprised no one from the UK has chimed in. Don't you guys use something like the oil bath? Being a New Englander (though now in Joisey) I remember if you cherish your car, you take it off the road. I do remember some guys getting the oil bath, but only hard core folks who drove the nuts of their wheels, and the guys working on the road. I always wash my car during the winter, which sucks by the way, but at least it keeps most of the salt off the car. Though I remember my folks Acura rusted from the bottom up, oddly the 73 Datsun stayed pretty solid. No good way around it. If you want to drive - just do it, and figure out what works for you. I know I don't like not being in my cars, so if I am out in the shit, I wash it... twice.
Don Moyer program WORKS. I use it on my work trucks, even tractors. Nice thing you can pressure wash it off. Have a friend "Roller Dave" gave his winter beater this treatment [ 60 chevy 4-door] still driving car today after 9 years of salt and winters.
Wazzat, Mr. Haney? BTW.. salt is also messing up wells that are near the roads. But salt can stop many accidents. So until a better solution is found... it's a double-edged sword, I guess.
I drove my car to work today . It's about 40 degrees and raining and I'm getting sick of my ricer winter car already. I'm not super anal about the salt cause its rusty already and there's no stopping it, so I just wait until the snow is gone and its had some rain to wash it away. Prefer dry roads since the cold air makes it run real good and the water isn't too cooperative with the traction department, but in the winter with no heater, I'll take what I can get.
"Brine spray baby" its everywhere ! shit gets into duesh conectors, electrical systems, wreaks havoc on guys driving new caddy suv's. as for your cancer concern dude............it has only been known to cause cancer in lab rats in state of California.
on a daily there just aint no way to avoid salt.. On a hot rod no friggen way would i drive on a salty road... I also avoid gravel roads at all costs.. gravel fucks up cars just as bad as salt... Dave
I try to not drive in the winter. But sometimes you just have to say "fuck it." This trip cost me the perfect original paint on my front license plate.
I live in western Pa. so I know the damage salt can do. A friend in our club owns a hi tech modern car wash. He can recycle the water to many different outlets, after fancy filters. Wont use recycle water on the upper body. but adjusts the under spray so the customers feel it on the floorboards.Wants the customers to feel there getting there moneys worth. He had to tone it down a bit because a brand new Ford went through and was sprayed so hard it quit running. Ago ford
Its five miles to the closest car wash so that would be like piss'n into the wind and saying you showered. When its ten degrees outside I aint washing my car in the driveway let alone powerwash it, besides my hose bib is currently under a foot of snow. I will just buy another peice of crap winter driver when this one dies.
Sunday, shorts and tee shirts Monday and Tuesday snow. If you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes. New Mexico snow, not Great White North snow. Mick
Been through there (NM) when it snows. It's not the salt that gets 'em there it's the surprise then the...Aw Shit, this shit is slipper....bang, crunch...
Wow this thread is really getting interesting, thanks guys for all the feedback. I just remembered I had an old '37 Packard convert coupe that I drove all winter when I was much younger. I can remeber the looks on the antique car club members faces when I drove it to a meeting in January covered in road grime and salt spray. I was a bit more daredevil and carefree in those days. I of course washed it after each trip but I just loved driving it so much that I had to. Now I am much more careful so my 66 poncho will have to sit in a garage or be passed on to someone that really can take care of a perfect car. I still have those urges to just get in it and drive no matter what the roads bring,,hmmmm they are a bit drier today .
...did it once here in the Swiss winter a couple years ago. It was a bash but this fuck... salt was everywhere afterwards!! Next time I'm on the salt at Bonneville...
My daily is a '97 Silverado and I usually wash it about once a week (if the outside temp is 32+) during the salted road season. So far, it hasn't started to rust. I don't plan on driving the Galaxie on wet, salted roads this winter. ....just couldn't resist at Bonneville, though! Malcolm
Drive em. It all boils down to how good a care you take of your vehicle. You keep it clean and protected and it will last a lifetime. You treat it like shit and let it go for years on end with no care, yup she's gonna rot away on ya.
I'm doing my best to turn it into a parts car. What else are four doors good for? I guess I should probably change the oil in it sometime; been a while since I've done that, too.
So the best deal would be to find a dusty dirt road that has been freshly oiled for a mile and then dusty dirt for a mile. Drive on the oil part to wet down the under side and then on the dusty part to seal it in.
thev heavy rain here washed all the salt away! hope we dont get any snow untill after christmass so i can drive my truck
back in the day (50's) the town I lived in had a coal burnin' power plant and they used the clinkers (ground up) to put on the roads. Worked pretty good, but God forbid if anyone had a coal fired power plant. Probably wouldn't make any clinkers if it did..
We had a coal furnace when I was a kid, Dad used the ashes with the clinkers in the driveway before he had blacktop. Clinkers is sharp nasty little buggers! Good for traction maybe but bad for paint and not real kind to little kids either!
I am going to try the chain saw bar oil, on the under carriage of my daily driver. In order to spay it via a pressurized bug bottle, would kerosene be the best way to thin it (just a little to aid in spraying)? I doubt you could apply the bar oil via a pressurized bottle, without thinning, due to it's thickness?
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