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There is your answer!!! Moisture activates the electrolysis and is what causes the rust issues! Nevada doesn't have the moisture issues the rust belt States have, And Oregon will now join them! Let the rust and never ending electrical nightmares begin!!!To add, my Ford has had more rust since moving to Oregon because of the dampness of the rain and weather than it ever has in Nevada in salt coated roads.
Please Lord, no SALT!
We have successfully resisted salt in Oregon, but looks as if the folks that would rather have the government take care of them instead of taking care of themselves have won. ODOT announced today they are now using salt, and Portland-DOT has said they will follow suit.
If ya don't like your car, or ya don't like my car, you will now get your way. Yuck.
WAYNO.
I wonder what the people are going to say when they have to replace their cars due to rust like they do back east and the midwest. Or expensive body and paint expense on a 5 year old car. I have a 25 year old Tempo with not one spot of rust and it is not garaged. If I took it back east and the midwest people would be looking at it as something from outer space, it would have been scrapped 10 or more likely 15 years ago due to rust. Have you ever heard of a car out here breaking in half or having large parts of the car falling off?
Salting the roads now! Sheesh! Morons!
How about drivers in our area take personal responsibility for their driving and buy traction devices.
Like snow chains. We know it rains and snows here in Oregon. We know that sometimes we get freezing rain conditions. What is so hard to appreciate the need to have and use snow chains, on those two or three days a year when we need them?
Salting the roads is not the answer! Ask my perfectly good ex-upstate NY Subaru! the underside looks like a battle-bot, after 3 seasons of salting. I say no to salting of any kind! use corn syryp on the roads, use sand. Salts just really mess things up!
Speaking of "Personal Responsibility"? Wouldn't washing your car fall into that category too? Just sayin'. Here in PDX you are hard pressed to find a self car wash. In the Salt Lake Valley the car washes are everywhere! I'm assuming they are in NY too?
You are my kind of guy!To add.....I'm an accomplished driver is snow and ice. I cut my driving teeth spinning doughnuts, 180s/360s, chaining up, pushing 6" or more to get where I wanted to go in the snow. Driving long distances on highways seeing people losing it while I had what it takes to NOT join them. At this stage of my life I tend to stay out of those circumstances. I also don't believe I'm capable of getting down and chaining up my CRV.
To add.....I'm an accomplished driver is snow and ice. I cut my driving teeth spinning doughnuts, 180s/360s, chaining up, pushing 6" or more to get where I wanted to go in the snow. Driving long distances on highways seeing people losing it while I had what it takes to NOT join them. At this stage of my life I tend to stay out of those circumstances. I also don't believe I'm capable of getting down and chaining up my CRV.
Studded snow tires ALL FOUR CORNERS, or blizzax,whatever they're called. Chains aren't really necessary on most front drive cars let alone an AWD rig.
Get four extra wheels and a nice floor jack. And if needed a friend with a garage to swap them in.
Then the city needs to fine those folks that abandoned their cars the same amount as a new set of winter tires.
You are my kind of guy!
Heck you can put studs all the way around on a RWD and make it fineMid '70s, rear wheel drive cars, wide open parking lots. Ungated parking lots, at schools and many churches, being in the valley of the Mormons! Dad had a '64 Econoline van and a Toyota Corona. Right outa' high school I got my '63 Rambler Ambassador, with posi. Loved winter snows back then, not so much now.
Heck you can put studs all the way around on a RWD and make it fine
I don't believe front wheel drive is better, for anything! My thinking is auto manufacturers just told people it was better for them, when it was actually better for the manufacturers. The drive train is all one little package and they set the body on top, and bolt it all up. No engine/tranny, no drive line and no differential to install desperately. Granted, if you chain up the front you got pull, but if you don't have chains and you let of the gas going down a slippery hill, engine compression will leave you without steering.
Mid '70s, rear wheel drive cars, wide open parking lots. Ungated parking lots, at schools and many churches, being in the valley of the Mormons! Dad had a '64 Econoline van and a Toyota Corona. Right outa' high school I got my '63 Rambler Ambassador, with posi. Loved winter snows back then, not so much now.
This plus the fact that you can direct the driving wheels.The engine weight sitting on front wheel drive cars is the difference. That's why people put sand bags in the trunk of Rwd cars and beds of Rwd pickups.