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02-03-2015, 11:07 AM
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Road salt states
Do the states you live in use road salt? I'd be driving mine daily as thats what this truck is for, but I drove it up till the first time they spread salt and I just can't bring myself to drive it till the spring rains wash away the salt on the roads. How about you?
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02-03-2015, 11:55 AM
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Re: Road salt states
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02-03-2015, 11:58 AM
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Location: Sandown, NH
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Re: Road salt states
Once it snows here in NH the roads turn white from salt not snow "LOL".....
My truck isn't on the road yet, but this is the closest it will come to seeing snow & salt !!!
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02-03-2015, 12:26 PM
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Re: Road salt states
here in nm, the state uses crushed lava rock, it turns our roads red, but it hardly ever snows here enough to use it. i used to live in milwaukee though and our old caprice didnt even have rockers on it from all the salt corrosion!
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02-03-2015, 01:43 PM
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Re: Road salt states
In an emergency I'd drive mine, other than that it sits all winter.
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02-03-2015, 01:48 PM
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02-03-2015, 02:28 PM
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Re: Road salt states
The most salt my truck will see is from the fries I eat while sitting in it. My Vette dont even see that.
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02-03-2015, 02:48 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lake Geneva, WI 53147
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Re: Road salt states
I try and have a winter time vehicle that is not of tremendous value to me every year here in Wisconsin, because they salt the he!! out of the roads here.
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02-03-2015, 03:47 PM
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Location: PA
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Re: Road salt states
Here in PA my truck sits all winter too. Up there in NY they use salt and they also use sand which is really bad too because everything gets sandblasted.
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02-03-2015, 04:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Greenville, SC
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Re: Road salt states
It snowed here...
once... last year... that was too much for me...
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02-03-2015, 04:52 PM
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Re: Road salt states
Yeah, salt is bad... R.I.P
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02-03-2015, 05:32 PM
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Re: Road salt states
Lots of road salt usage here in the U.P. of Michigan. Here is a picture of my first truck, shortly after I got it in 1984. By the time I graduated in 85, all of our style trucks were rusted out around here unless they had been recently brought in from a salt free state. Even the license plate is so corroded that it is hard to read. The box sides on this truck were literally flopping in the breeze.
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02-03-2015, 05:37 PM
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Re: Road salt states
Michigan roads are very rough with pot holes and they salt very heavy. I never drive my truck in the winter. The stuff i do drive only lasts seven years before i need a new one. I never buy new stuff. It does not pay.
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02-03-2015, 08:04 PM
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Re: Road salt states
Ditto. From November to April my truck sits covered. I didn't ship an Arizona truck all the way across the US to lose it to salt.
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02-03-2015, 08:11 PM
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02-03-2015, 08:35 PM
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Re: Road salt states
Mine won't see any salt. I have another truck that I will use. Plus with 33" of snow last Tuesday and other 14" yesterday I wouldn't be able to drive it anywhere anyway.
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02-03-2015, 09:14 PM
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02-03-2015, 10:41 PM
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Re: Road salt states
Mine don't either see salt either. Thats what beaters are for!
Its not just about aesthetics either. Try pulling chassis bolts and doing undercarriage work on a rusty vehicle, no thanks. Pulled a bed off an 03 2500hd here (that didn't even have body rust) last week and some of the big 1/2" frame to bed bolts twisted off instead of backing out!
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02-03-2015, 11:11 PM
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Re: Road salt states
Lookin for a 90s caprice or Roadmaster for this purpose exactly. 2k car, $300 set of vintique rallys and some tires. Should last awhile. And yes Mo is a salt state. And chemical state.
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02-03-2015, 11:20 PM
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Re: Road salt states
They do here, so I just take a dirt road. It's actually calcium chloride, IDK if it makes any difference. It eats double-framed semis.
We don't get the nasty rust that some of you guys do though.
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02-03-2015, 11:20 PM
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Re: Road salt states
And to think people make fun of us for living in the South. I get to drive mine year round.
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02-04-2015, 12:02 AM
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Re: Road salt states
Nebraska Yes, Where I live the City doesn't even bother to plow snow a lot of the times, they dump salt and gravel.
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02-04-2015, 12:41 AM
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Re: Road salt states
Park it for the winter unless you want to replace body panels
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02-04-2015, 12:12 PM
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Re: Road salt states
Park it.
I replaced the frame on my '72 because the left rail broke in two about 7 years ago. I'd rather give myself a tonsillectomy through my fourth point of contact.
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02-04-2015, 05:21 PM
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Re: Road salt states
I drive mine everyday 40 miles to work near Albany, NY.
Jim
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