Salt on Roads

[sloop]

I am not sure if it will show. but all the talk lately about salt on roads and east coast vehicles. I lived out west and I knew they used salt on the roads so after some research I found that alot of States use salt maybe not to the extent as New York! but it is still salt My sisters car in Florida was never up north and she washed it alot but still rusted under all the Plastic from salt that was on the top and ran under the plastic from washing

[JAMAS]

Apparently in North Dakota, you just deal with the snow on the roads.

[samneil2000]

Apparently in North Dakota, you just deal with the snow on the roads.

They use dog sleds and park the cars, right?

[vt_maverick]

Paging LDub...

[AlaskaVX]

We haven't used salt in AK for 10 years I think.

[Ldub]

Apparently in North Dakota, you just deal with the snow on the roads.

Just like driving with tires that (according to some "experts") are WAY outta spec with regard to weight & diameter, we re-learn to drive after the first snowfall. Some get it, some...

They use dog sleds and park the cars, right?

Paging LDub...

We use the ground up teeth from all the meth junkies for traction up here... Hey, it's more plentiful, & cheaper than sand...

[sloop]

We haven't used salt in AK for 10 years I think.

sand and 3% to 5% salt started mix in 2005 or around there

[WormGod]

I believe MD uses some form of acid. We need to trade in cars once every couple of years before we end up putting our feet through the floorboards.

[vt_maverick]

Of course it doesn't help the undercarriage, but I'm so grateful for the cladding along the lower portion of the truck. I don't know how many vehicles I saw in WI that had rust holes around the wheel wells and rocker panels.

[BigSwede]

ND uses little, if any salt. But then they don't have all that many cars to run into each other anyway...

[mdwyer]

Colorado is marked as "Sand or something else". The "something else" is a salt called Magnesium Chloride. They spray it down /before/ snow. It might be less corrosive than the usual road salt, but you still won't appreciate it when your car looks like a frosted mini-wheat.

Mag chloride sucks.

[Cobrajet]

Mag chloride sucks.

Precipitation, in any form, treated or otherwise, SUCKS! (for driving, that is.)

Let is rain/snow between 10:00 PM and 2:00 AM, as long as the roads are dry in time for rush hour.

[nfpgasmask]

That's weird that NV is on there. They DO NOT salt here in Reno, not as long as I have been here. Typically, they spray the roads with some sort of fine gravel to add traction, but I have not seen any salting on city streets or highways.

Bart

[Y33TREKker]

Colorado is marked as "Sand or something else". The "something else" is a salt called Magnesium Chloride. They spray it down /before/ snow. It might be less corrosive than the usual road salt, but you still won't appreciate it when your car looks like a frosted mini-wheat.

Mag chloride sucks.

I lived in Colorado for awhile (Longmont/Boulder area), and at that time it was strictly cinder alone that was used. It had a tendency to make a vehicle look pretty bad, and I suppose it was an old school way of doing things, but for the most part it helped provide traction and didn't result in rusted-out body panels, so IMO it wasn't the worst method ever devised.

[Y33TREKker]

Double post.