Why is it bad to drive our cars in the winter? im guessing the salt and things gettin kicked up on the road??

 

Well I think you have it. The salt really tears away at the car. not to mentions the salt you have on your wet boots when you hope in the car, causeing the floor to rust from the inside out.

As far as driving them, if you drive them responsible they will handle the winter. But if you drive them like you do in the summer you going to have some problems.

 

should i get a beater car if i can get insurance for dirt cheap and a car for cheap? im gonna paint my car this summer, and i want it to last a long time, the the thought of my preacious interior getting dirty haunts me or is there a way to stop this from happening besides not driving it?

 

The reason Salt causes rust to accelerate is salt actually absorbs moisture, then it slowly releases the moisture. So you drive your car in the snow, and you actually get a double whamy. First you get all that caked on snow in your wheel wells and then you add the salt on top of it which holds the moisture there even longer.

its bad very bad...

As for keeping your car clean inside, I have seen these deep plastic floor mats that keep your shoes & boots from soaking into the carpet...

John

 

Salt is really hell on the aluminum wheels!! They get pits in them in a matter of weeks if not kept up!

If they didn't use salt, you could drive your car if you wanted. In ND I believe they use sand instead of sault and most cars I see from ND have no salt. Here in MN anything over 10 years old has rust, unless you store it!

 

i guess its time for me to start lookin for a beater car lol

 

Salt is more harmful than just absorbing moisture. Salt is corrosive, and when coupled with moisture will reek havoc on steel. Look around your area and find some piece of **** rustbucket. It's that way because of salt.

 

my first formula came from Anderson IN, and they seem to either forget the salt or they seem to use sand instead. Strangly enough it has absolutely no rust on the car.

My other Formula on the other hand has some minor rust on the under side, but its been a MI car all its life. what a difference salt made on that car, all bad...

John

 

If you can afford a winter beater, go for it!! No one wants to buy a Camaro knowing that it has been through salty winters. Once rust is started, good luck stopping it! It gets under moldings and places you wouldn't think of and just rots the body away! Here in MN, I see cars that are 10 years old with big holes, literally HOLES in the door. Salt is horrible, anyone who lives in a state with salt knows what I'm saying! I don't care if you wash your car every day, granted it will help and slow it down, but you will still see rust eventually.

 

Salt in combination with moisture reacts with steel to form iron oxide(rust). I'd walk before I drove my car in the winter.

 

In Minnesota and Wisconsin, I swear DOT crews took "rust proof panels" as a challenge. I HATE SALT!

 

It's not the moisture and stuff, it's that the salt causes a chemical reaction that rusts/oxidizes the metal. You can drive a car in the rain and only get very minor surface rust on the frame over a long period of time, but it's when the salt comes into play that things go bad.

 

If u can afford it definitely get a beater..cheap lil pos car..my car hasnt been drivin in the winter...its a 91 and spotless..a lil spot here and there under it, but other than that looks as clean as the day it came off the floor. My beater on the other hand is an 83, and is rotted to hell thanx to salt and winter driving. Also, with the low clearance of our cars, w/a decent amout of snowfall you would be going thru the snow more than you would be goin over it...and im willin to bet yer front ground effect would look like poop

 

DING DING DING!! WHAT DO WE HAVE FOR HIM JOHNNY!!!
yea, you guessed right, my front ground effect needs to be repainted cause its all poopie from salt i guess. thats why my baby is gettin a nice new paint job soon.

 

here in Tucson AZ they don't put salt or anything on the road


then again it doesn't snow here either.

 

well believe what you will

 

What do you think causes it? There's not some ferry that sprinkles rust-dust on people's cars at night!

 

i dont have to worry about salt ... i feel sorry for you northern folk hehe

 

yea...i might move to florida or california in a few years then

 

Uhhh... salt causes rust unless you wash your car frequently. What else would cause rust, dude?
Cars don't just rust because they feel like it.

 

Washing still helps, but you won't get all of it from washing. That's why you see cars that start showing rust in the body seams. It rusts between the seams and works its way out. There's also a million and 1 places for it to hide in the undercarrage where I guarantee you're not going to get it out by washing.