States that salt roads. Cars still rust as fast?

[FXjohn]

I'd like to start a RustCheck or Krown business. But I know it would never succeed. people just don't care.

 

[Kestas]

Originally Posted By: jrustles
Originally Posted By: Kestas
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
Salt being the toxic substance that it is (inhaling powdered salt is a know carcinogen) to the environment, vehicles and infrastracture, should be restricted to problem areas only like steap hills but otherwise banned from general use.

I don't buy that. This is counterintuitive. What about all the time I spend by the ocean, and the people who live in coastal areas? Are we ruining our health? Is there wholesale reports of cancer among these people? Plus, our bodies are salty by nature. Alarmism.


When you're by the ocean, you're not breathing-in dry salt dust...

Yes you are. Next time you're at the ocean, look down the shoreline. You'll see a mist of salt spray that dried and hugs the shore. Check your glasses - they'll be covered with salt. I've spent lots of time on my property by the ocean and I see what the salt spray does to property and cars. It'll coat cars a few blocks away with a mist of salt. My condo was just assessed $4000 to repair the damage salt did to the rebar in the concrete. The salt is there, in the air.

 

[Coprolite]

I'm pretty sure his point was that the salt is carried by the saltwater mist, not as dry salt dust. Kestas, all the nouns you used are associated with water, so it seems you are trying to disagree by agreeing.

 

[hattaresguy]

Yeah after a storm with a strong onshore breeze I can see the dried salt on my vehicle windows.

My area tests out the rust resistance of a vehicle pretty well, which is why their are no old Toyota pickups left anymore.

 

[Kestas]

Originally Posted By: Coprolite
I'm pretty sure his point was that the salt is carried by the saltwater mist, not as dry salt dust. Kestas, all the nouns you used are associated with water, so it seems you are trying to disagree by agreeing.

As much as jrustles was disagreeing by agreeing. I was addressing the point of salt toxicity. I don't know how it evolved into a discussion of dry salt versus misted salt.

 

[rjundi]

My MDX an 07 is pretty rusty underneath and where some body work was done before I owned it.

The prior owner I found out after sale(albeit cheap) parked the vehicle outside about 50' from the Atlantic at his house.