Mid-Atlantic Members: winter road treatment

I would definitely be worried about doing sub par prep work. It would be a lot of wasted time and energy if it didn’t hold up.

Thanks for the input. I had actually been wondering about the vehicles out west. You answered my question. My brother brought a 15+ year old Honda back from Oregon with him a few years ago. It was mint underneath. Not only were the stickers still on the underbody, but they were easily readable.

When will the politicians and the UN realize that a rust free vehicle is a basic human right?. It doesn’t seem fair that my vehicles won’t last as long as other people’s.



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I wish we would go back to sand/ash and stop with the salt. I think it makes the roads more unsafe. Dam slush will yank the wheel from you, faster than just a now covered road.

 

I’ve bought 3 over the years
1 in Raleigh NC
1 in Norfolk VA
1 in coastal Florida
As mentioned already paint on all 3
The one from coastal Florida ,, the bottoms of the doors rotted out in a couple years . A bodyshop guy I know told me this was common of southern cars from Florida. Salt from the air settles in the bottoms of the doors. Car gets up here and the warm/cold of the seasons and salt from winter accelerates the process. I wasn’t disappointed as the car was $600 and lasted a few years.
The other 2 I still own and are great condition . 95 Mercury and 97 Ford.
The clear coat on the fiberglass hood of Ford was almost completely gone . Just had it painted a couple months ago. The paint on the Mercury is getting rough but no rot . 238000 miles. I bought a part/engine donor car (76000 miles) for $100 last winter up here . I needed a bumper hood and grill due to a bus backing into it and the low mileage engine will be nice to have as a spare.
I’d buy south again in a heartbeat .

 

Thanks for the info. Much appreciated. I may stay away from coastal Florida.

 

I live On DelMarVa... we rarely ever get snow. We also only have like 3 main roads, and those are only ones that get treated. The side roads, or main township type roads usually just dont... our system doesnt really stock the stuff, we only get measureable snow every 3yrs or so.

My 3pt plow has only been used twice and its 6yrs old.

 

A buddy of mine bought an f250 from Texas some time back. Sight unseen.
Dealer sent him about 30-40 pics. Pointed out anything that looked wrong. Had the truck shipped to Pa for $600 IIRC.
Truck was in great shape and lasted many years.
Worked very well for him.

 

I am from Charleston... literally a mile from the salt Marsh. Drove through brackish water when it was full moon tides and it rained a lot. I never saw rusted out doors on vehicles around there unless the people lived on barrier islands and never washed a car and it was thirty years old and they literally lived near the beach..like a few rows back and or they went to the beach every day in the summer like a surfer.

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I've got nothing to add except NH was the 1st state to pioneer the use of road. We use thousands of tons, everything rusts out in 10 to 15 years. My F-150 is aluminum, the frame can still rot. Time will tell.

 

The aluminum body on the steel frame is an interesting thought. Never really thought about the possibility of the frame rotting. While the frames do eventually rot around here, I’m sure you see the same as me, the bodies are usually well on there way by the time the frame is an issue. However I have heard horror stories of frames going real early.

Maybe Ford can make a “crate frame” (instead of a crate motor). Just lift the aluminum body off the rusted steel frame and then set it down on the new frame; sort of like Toyota did with the Tacoma frame recall.


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