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Road Salt. Helps keep people from running into others or off the road completely. Prematurely rusts cars. What's the age of your daily driver cage? How's it look? Mines an '04 Ranger with 220000miles. Spare tire fell off last week due to rust, passenger door rusted (holed) along bottom, gas tank straps rusted off, tail gate rotted, still has original exhaust. Does this happen near oceans too?Bored,Peter
Does this happen near oceans too?
Rock salt use is promoted by auto manufacturers to shot peen undercoating from vehicles and corrode them faster. That way they sell you a new vehicle sooner. It is a method perfected in cleveland because they have at least two major auto assembly plants nearby and a salt mine under the city. By the way they also have a large number of bridges condemned because of corrosion.
almost 20% of the CT state plow trucks are off the road because the leaf springs rusted off.there are no springs available east of the Mississippiall because of the new wonder ice melter liquid they use here
Everyone down here is touting the benefits of the new Magnesium Chloride liquid ice melter they use now. The trucks are out spraying it on the roads the day before the snow and ice is supposed to get here. The only thing now that they spread off the back of a dump truck is sand, although I don't know what might be in it, but the rock salt is done with.The Colorado govt. website says that Magnesium Chloride is less corrosive than calcium or sodium chloride, and does less damage to the rivers when it washes off the roads, but I don't know the numbers, just what they say.They sure use a lot of it now, though.Lannis
I wonder if the new F150s with more use of aluminum will do better.