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Road salt, can any car be saved from it?

Reply #15 –
Honestly, I don't see the point in having a car you can't drive. I also think one of the worst things you can do to a car is let it sit. I have driven my car for 2 years through the snow, and I don't see any rust that wasn't already there. I think if I just touched it up in a couple of spots, I would not have much to worry about.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
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1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
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Road salt, can any car be saved from it?

Reply #16 –
http://rustcheck.ca/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=71 

I swear by this and have used it exclusively for 25+yrs on our fleet of vehicles which include everything from trucks to my wife's BENZ . I even applied this to the bottom of my 5th wheeler every year before heading south in Feb and have ZERO rust. I just sold our 90 AEROSTAR with 320,000kms and the only rust spot was on the drivers door due to my lazy ass not fixing the large door dent that rusted from the outside in! To the best of my knowledge, this is only available in Canada. As a note, this is a preventive procedure that has to applied BEFORE rust starts!  It will stop rust from spreading but can't reverse the damage.
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Road salt, can any car be saved from it?

Reply #17 –
I had a 77 Ford F150 truck that was my daily driver for winter and I washed that thing every other day at a local car wash and it still rusted to hell.
I found out that the car wash recycled their water and the salt remained in their system.
Here, I was trying to save my truck and I was the cause of it rusting.
WARNING, if you use a car wash for cleaning, ask if they recycle their water.

Road salt, can any car be saved from it?

Reply #18 –
Quote from: Haystack;341359
Honestly, I don't see the point in having a car you can't drive. I also think one of the worst things you can do to a car is let it sit. I have driven my car for 2 years through the snow, and I don't see any rust that wasn't already there. I think if I just touched it up in a couple of spots, I would not have much to worry about.

Do they salt in Utah? If not then the snow doesn't hurt the car. It's just like rain. The salt is the killer....
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

Road salt, can any car be saved from it?

Reply #19 –
I think most car washes recycle their water. I know the spray place here does. the guy showed me that they filter it, but I don't know how well it gets filtered.
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Road salt, can any car be saved from it?

Reply #20 –
Living in the salt belt sucks, if you're a car guy.
Long live the 4-eyes!  - '83 Tbird Turbo - '85 Marquis LTS - '86 LTD Wagon-  '81 Granada GL 2dr

Road salt, can any car be saved from it?

Reply #21 –
Yes they salt in utah. Probably more then alot of other places. We have several very large salt mines where they just drain the lake and collect the salt left over. Sometime we get lake effect rain from the great salt lake, and it will actually put salt in the road during bad summer rain storms.
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

Road salt, can any car be saved from it?

Reply #22 –
I'm betting the extra chemical  they have in the salt here to melt snow below 20 degrees adds to the corrosive nature of the salt.
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

Road salt, can any car be saved from it?

Reply #23 –
Quote from: bhazard;341257
Oil the body down?

 
lol funny you should say that a friend of mine bought a new 96 f350 4x4 7.3 powerstroke the front main seal went bad in 98 he has never fixed it, it loses 2 qrts a week when he drives it and he only drives it in the winter or if hes pulling somthing (has less then 100,000 miles on the clock) the frame looks better then his 06 2wd ranger