dose any one drive their car in the winter and how do u keep the rust from eating the car alive?
You don't.....salt will kill these things.
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imo if you let the distributor seal go bad and not fix it, it coats the whole bottom the car very nicely, i dont think salt could make it through that :hick:
in all seriousness tho, i dont think these cars are easily winterized and rust proofed. i've always seen these cars in the stage of it has rust so now the plan is to stop it from rusting more.
i have an other 88 that i drive all year long and it still dose not have the amout of rust
I drive mine all year (without the Cobra R's). I spray it down at the car wash about every other day. I don't really know if this helps at all, but it gives me peace of mind...
The reconditioning department is in my building at the dealership I work for. So I wash my truck every couple of days and every day when it snows. Used this big fancy machine to take a stain out of my seat today :hick:
well theres one way to winterize them get that truck bed coating and spray the whole bottom of the car it would be messy but the stuff works.
yea i imagine that works, but i've heard that it adds a shiznit load of weight. something like 100-200lbs... of course it wouldnt be in the back or front only, being through out the car, but i dont think the added weight justifies it. but to each their own.
well if u spray it on at the same thickness as the truck bed it would but if you put a lighter coating on just to prevent rust it might add about 10 pounds at best. they spray those bedliners over a 1/4 inch thick.
well now im going to have to undercoat it now lol, i was thinking about it because it has like no rust
What's snow???
I drive my 87 year round and living in western NY it gets a pretty fair amount of salt(hell, the roads are even white here) but I wash it alot and it leaks enough oil( 3.8 that wont die ) that it never sits long covered in the road . That combined with the fact that the car only cost 200 bucks it has been relegated to staying outside while my other birds stay in the garage.
Hush! :beatyoass:
Snow wouldn't bother me, but all the salt they use is just crazy.
Drive the 96 during the winter, leave the other one under the tarp.
ya they use just to much salt here to
Decent carwash at least once a week will do fine.
We have one of these in my area - http://www.touchfreecarwashing.com/index.htm
Even though they say they only have locations in NY and PA I think, I beleive its independant from those guys, they just use the same car wash. It works good.
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The go nuts with the salt in the midwest. One inch of snow = one inch of salt:hick:
The rust preventative measure I use for the 88 T-bird: I put it in the garage from Nov 1st till late March early April when the snow melts and the rain washes the salt away;)
Tell that to my old '84 XR-7.......
Same here if it snows, so far we've had 1/2" slush that only stuck on the cars... Roads were salted just in case... Next day there was white power flying in the breezes...
Once the salt gets into the seams, it's almost impossible to stop the rust...
They're starting to use a treatment in my town where they spray some kind of chemical on the roads instead of salt. They do it before it's supposed to snow. It seems to work ok, but it makes your tires sticky...
Beat juice? That's what they use in down town Chicago instead of salt. Of course by me they use salt :hick:
I actually slid on salt yesterday coming up to a stop, kinda ruins the point dont it?
ya my other bird died of a fuel pump and i was just going to drive the other one and just dont want to get it all rusted out lol
it rains salt here.
I'm glad it doesn't snow around here or else it would be hard for my daughter to drive her Taurus or for my son to drive his Turbo Coupe.
Pff it's just a dusting ;)
man am i glad i live in florida. yesterday the high was almost 80* and the low was in the low 60s.
I love living in Texas....Frigg'n hated to shovel snow and drive in it.
Been there, shoveled that. Only difference is, we never see the sun
This happened in about 2 hrs. time.
I wouldn't trade this for anything.
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-so thats where all the salt goes. we use it to season our food here..:hick: but seriously, like 2-3 weeks ago when it DID snow here some, most places used sand around here. i know salt melts it faster, but it REALLY does a number on cars from the north....
Like I mentioned... the snow is not the issue. I'd have no problems if they used sand or something that didn't eat the cars from the ground up when it did snow. I drove my Foxes in the winter for years....but the salt killed two of them. I'm done killing Foxes in the winter.
I don't drive My '85 Bird in the winter, it sit in My garage (heated) from oct 31 to April.
There was no miracle receipt to keep rust away from steel, natural thing.
Dom.
Get your wheel wells as clean as you can get them, as well as any other areas pr0ne to rust. Then fill a spray bottle with Future floor wax and give all those areas a double coat. Future is thin enough to seep into any cracks and crevices and seal them up. Pretty durable too.
I've actually considered using it as a wax on the entire car.