Salt Protection

The VERY best way to protest your car from salt problems is to get your buddy to drive HIS car to B'ville!

 

My 2002 mustang's starting to look like my Bonneville ride!

 

This is about the best advice I could give. I won't take my daily driver out there 'cause it'd be a f'ing nightmare to clean afterwards. This year I'm doing a rental car. We work the whole event so we're there for 10 days straight. We actually bring a hose with a jet nozzle and wash our vehicles off almost daily. Once the salt dries out and "bakes" on it's on.

The parking over a lawn sprinkler works very well but multiple visits in the same vehicle over a couple of years will definitely have an impact. Truck are better than cars because they're usually high enough that you can get under them to clean up. My daily driver is way too low and so much ******* salt would get packed into the wheel wells and around the struts and on the brakes... it makes me anxious just thinking about it.

I've never done the diesel mix spray but I know plenty who have it it seems to work very well. Pull over on the side of the land's end before you drive onto the salt and spray it on right there. Remember, you're spraying it onto your truck and not dumping oil on the salt so I don't think anyone should have any problem with the SCTA or BLM.

But like Choptop said, if you care about it leave it at the hotel and catch a ride out to the salt. Also, new cars with lots of electronically controlled devices will HATE you for taking them onto the salt. Might not be a problem the first or second year but over time those thousands of feet of wire will start to corrode and you will get lots of weird electrical issues.

 

Bull ****ing ****! If you are visting like I did it won't mean a thing. If you return year after year....sure. But what many of you lilly livered sun country ****ers dont realize is most of us East of Utah and North of............say Oklahoma drive in **** worse than a little spray for MONTHS on end. What did Ryan say in his B*** post? Pussies!

 

Even returning year after year (WITH THE SAME VEHICLE) you can avoid issues from salt. It's called having common sense and using it. My DD has been to the salt a few times a year for the last 4 or so years. It's still in great condition because I'm not an idiot. I take care of my stuff... if you want to make it easier on yourself, drive slowly, park your car and then walk around.

Salt isn't Kryptonite, people. There are ways to deal with it.

Next, we'll be hearing that we shouldn't go to Muroc because of dust...

 

Yep, my pickup has chunks falling off the frame. My other car was treated with Waxoyl & has done much better for 11 New York winters. Waxoyl can be a ***** to remove though, probably not good for a "salt" car. Maybe the diesel method would be better.

http://www.waxoyl.com/

I get mine from these guys...BTW, this is the "real" UK stuff, not the US EPA version

http://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=31508&SortOrder=3

Or home-made stuff:

http://www.mgexperience.net/archive/homemade_waxoyl_update/22473

 

ease up there Tex.

I'm just speaking from my experiences. I've raced at Bonneville for years. I've seen many different types of salt conditions and what it can do to a vehicle, protected or otherwise. I'm sure some people have great luck with spraying SaltAway on their hot rod and taking it 20 feet off the end of the road for that glorious "I took my Hot Rod to Bonneville" picture. Hot Rod on Salt, looks great. Then they roll it back onto the pavement and report no ill effects from the "having their car on the salt".

My warning is pretty simple. If you have a car you really care about, dont take it on the salt. No matter what you do to prep it, or how you clean it afterwards. Its not worth it.

If you think your car is different and the corrosion wont happen to you or that you somehow have a protection solution that will work better than everyone else that has ever been on the salt... or you arent taking it THAT far on the salt or you know the salt conditions well enough to know that its not going to throw a ton of salt into every nook and cranny.... have it at it.

up to you. Hey its your car. The worst that will happen is that you will get rust in really hard to reach and repair places.

 

never said you shouldnt go on the salt... said if you have a car that you REALLY care about dont take it out there.

Its just rust. Thats all.

 

I did get a little Yosemite Sam on ya

 

I drove my '92 Toyota pickup on the salt when it was new. I was shocked when I got out to see damp salt was packed in the wheelwells and almost down to the ground. I've still got the truck and 400,0 00 miles later there isn't a speck of rust anywhere. All I did was drive to SLC and spray it off at the quarter wash. Lucky?

 

I have used this product http://www.saltx.com/ the last couple of years and it appears to work great. We used it on the push truck and the race car. 1 gallon makes about 60 gallon mixed. It only takes three or four gallons to do both vehicles. So a gallon of product will last you a long time. It is for sale on ebay for $40 a gallon plus freight.

John

 

We went into a discount grocery and bought all the plain label spray "Pam" they had. Sprayed everything except the windows everyday before entering onto the salt. Keep in mind, this was a rental car from Salt Lake City, and we were told at the time of the rental there was a $250 charge upon return if they had to clean the salt. Last day, before we left Wendover, it was car wash time....$10 in quarters and we were good to go. And yes, when we got back to Salt Lake City, the car was inspected when we returned it.....

 

I guess I must have a Salt God on my side. No ill effects since 2003. I worry more about the interior then the body as the interior is harder to protect and clean.

Big Olds at speed on the long course. I've even done major donuts in Big Olds on the salt till I found out it was frowned upon.


Of course I'm not stupid and didn't drive thru this in 2007. I waited till the next day to drive Big Olds out to the pits and start line. There is a limit to what protection Saltaway or any of the other products can protect against BUT the work that goes into prep and cleanup afterwards is well worth the effort to be able to cruz your hot rod or custom on this hallowed ground.

 

I bet Big Olds gets the longest, most thorough sponge bath ever when you get him back home. Sprayed down with lots of warm water. Big soft sponge. Bubble bath with plenty of suds. Gently scrubbed from bumper to bumper. All accompanied with soft music and illuminated by candlelight.

Geez...I think I may need to take a cold shower myself about now!

 

OMG....you're soo funny! Now I need a cold shower before I head to bed.

 

so why not a belly pan? and plastic wheel well liners?

 

Originally Posted by Choptop
DO NOT TAKE ANY VEHICLE YOU EVEN REMOTELY CARE ABOUT ON THE SALT

What a load of **** ! If God had'nt meant them to be driven , he'd given them square wheels !