This is why....cars and trucks don't last long ...up here. (That white stuff is salt )

That's why we oil ...the underside of the vehicle..each year

That's crazy

Same as here Ness.

I went to town yesterday and the roads were white with salt when a semi went by it looked like it was snowing.county and state rd highway 20 I guess they have surplus so they poured it on.i was bit**ing to the wife about it I told her don't they know they can store it till next year if they don't use it
Maybe I should call DOGE and see what they can do about it

i remember them salt days when I lived in Pennsylvania. Kept the roads drivable but messed up the vehicles.

My truck is red in the summer. white in the winter.

It would be a chore, but I bet you can clean and paint the underside of your vehicle with some farm equipment paint and it would help. Don't know if y'all do that or not. I've seen whole undercarriages sprayed with bedliner down here before. We don't salt our roads but the clay mud is corrosive on metal. Might hold up better than oil.

They started using salt out here five or six years ago. It's ridiculous and ought to be outlawed. I figure the new car dealers have lobbyists pushing for the use of salt and mag chloride.

That’s wild Nessy…do they use a salt brine up there?

Same thing here Ness.

Wow!
I see MN vehicles through here that have a lot of rust. They must salt pretty heavy there too. It seems large, populated states do more of it.

Lots of that here also. Pull into Wind Cave park with a vehicle like that and the buffalo surround you and give it a tongue bath.

They switched to brine around here. That crap doesn't work near as good as the old rock salt. And it doesn't wash off vehicles either. Trucks are rusting away in 6-8 years now.

Same thing here in Maine as well.

Yep

Rock salt was bad enough but this other stuff is terrible.

Vehicles used on the Atlantic and gulf beaches commonly get a good underbelly rinse / dry then a spray coat of boiled linseed oil every year.
Oil works too, but have to watch out getting caught in many areas.

The state used to mix beet juice with the salt I don't know if they do that anymore or not.

Same here in WV.
They put it down days ahead of the precip event ..... as long as its cold enough to not be rain.

Yup ..they put down the brine..before a storm...then plow .
Then sand and salt.