THERE IS SALT ON MY BABY!!!
 

I am seriously bumming!!! There is road salt on MY BABY!!! and it is stupid to rinse it off with all the salt on the roads and the temps in the 30s, but it is driving me nuts!!!

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ur not the only one...my car is half white and looks like crap

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you need a banger to drive around in the winter :)

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maybe i should by a honda or sumtin so my real car doesnt get dirty lol

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oh man i feel ya there, my car is from SC so it had all that extra coatings cos of all the salt content at the beach but shoot that road salt is some lethal crap. i highly reccomend and i cannot overstate this I HIGHLY RECCOMEND getting a 300 piece of crap something to drive in this type of weather. 300 bucks worth of crappy import vs destroying your paint and body is a serious investment

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lol i like the words "crappy import"

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plus you don't have to worry about crashing your regular car or anything... i remember when i ahd my old truck it was like if anything happend "o just screw it"

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I hear ya Craig. Windsor sits ontop of a salt mine. I think they throw the stuff on the streets as fast as they dig the stuff up.

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well...welcome to winter...nothing to be suprised about

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The only thing I can hope for is that the last six coats of Eagle One Nano Wax is holding strong...

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er uh could you-all send some snow down to Jawga. We are pretty dry down here and could use the precep![&o]

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Me and Taz are sitting on the Great Lakes, we got plenty of water in all forms. I seriously wonder why the Feds have not seeded the clouds to produce more rain, but I now why -- lol.

It is not a pipe dream, the U.S. Gov has the capability to change the weather, the problem with that is, while they can change it, it may not be for the better. In other words, while they can create weather, they cannot fully control it and you may get more rain than the area can handle and floods can be created. Imagine that one... U.S. GOVERNMENT CREATES RAIN THAT KILLS 144, AND CAUSES $500 MILLION IN PROPERTY DAMAGE!
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Heh.

I was THRILLED when I returned the rental earlier this week that I had for my road trip (an '08 Buick LaCrosse), but was so not thrilled when it was snowing when I got the '87 MC LS back out again. Hmph ... failed at something else ... this time, getting a winter beater. Ah, well ... still time, of course.



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Yeah I know what you mean, my car is two-tone at the moment: black on the top and white on the bottom. I was considering getting a winter beater but money constraints and space in the driveway have put a damper on that momentarily.

Oh well, that's the thing about living in the northeast: your cars get eaten alive[sm=sigh.gif]

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i hear all you guys im up in woodstock ontario its ****ty out but hey i got my dads truck to drive around luckly because he knows i don't want to drive my car around in the winter so its all good i have drove my MC for about 2 weekss now just drive my dads truck...

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I know what you mean:(, damn Canadian winters lol

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I was checking your pics ans WOW that is so clean. Your hard work really shows!

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Why Thank You...

I have wet sanded every flaw out of the car, polished it until is was as smooth as glass, glazed it until it reflected light perfectly, then waxed it, and finallydressed it with the Eagle One Nano spray wax which is like a teflon coating -- because nothing sticks to it.

There is literally,over a 1/32" thickness in wax.

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as crazy as what Craig said sounded earlier, about how weather can be manipulated.... i've actually heard thats true...

theres some top secret military base in Alaska that is supposebly able to change weather.

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don't get me wrong...the salt is bad...but what are you gonna do when its the only car you have to drive...don't think it is that big a tragedy

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Sure Cowboy... So you think I'm crazy...:D

The U.S. has been playing with weather since the 1950s, and at one point tried to control Hurricanes, but that didn't pan out all that well. We can make it rain (that is a fact), we can change a storm's direction (to a degree), but what we cannot do is fully control it. If we could... there would be no more hurricanes or tornados in the U.S. Unless there has been some major breakthroughs in the last two years that are top secret.

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Oh... I fully understand it's life, get use to it, and grin and bare it. The white stuff washes off -- while ugly, I can live with that...

But, what I hate the most is that distinctive sound of ROCK SALT bouncing off my car, because I know each hit is creating a impact mark, scratch or worse.

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I feel exactly the same when I hear rock salt hitting any car I owned. Even in school, when I owned an old Cavalier hatchback. I always took pride in keeping my car in top shape. My dad always told me "Take car of your car, and it will take care of you." The Monte came with a ton of stone chips from the dealership. Mostly on the front end, but I found a few on the roof and trunk too. All because the dealership's lot is gravel. I can't beleive a GM dealership would still have a gravel lot. But now I'm getting off topic. (haha):D

As of yesterday, Dale Jr. was covered in salt. He needed to go on a strict no sodium diet.;)
Luckily today it's been nothing but freezing rain all day. So now the salt is washed off, but it's replaced with a coating of ice. The Monte is rather cold right now.

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Dude you should so live out here then!...there are rocks the size of fists on the streets...they barely clean up the sand from the winter...and you can not drive a mile and thereare rocks dinging of your car!..

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My Mini Cooper S looks like a giant salt lick LOL! White from head to toe (I wish I didn't get a black car but I had no choice - bought a left over 06 and pickins were slim)

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Uh-Oh. I think you may have stirred up all the black-car fans. lol :D

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I know how you feel Craig. I ran my new truck through one of those 5$ fast washes yesterday, spent about 1/2 hour in one of the do-it-yourself bays drying it off, damn near froze my fingers off wringing out the chamois. Got her home and into the garage.

Left for work this morning, and we had just a dusting of snow lat night, so of course the roads have just that little bit of wettness, and now the truck looks just like it did before I washed it.

Oh well, she was clean overnight, and now it only has one layer of scum on it instead of 3 or 4. Keep the faith, this crap doesn't last forever.

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if ti makes you feel better... its 80 degrees in NC today

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CUTE! REAL CUTE!!! Smart Asre in every group!!!;):D

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No, that doesn't make me feel better. I will be going to Florida for 4 weeks in February. That will make me feel better. The Monte at least will be out of this crap.

Thanks for at leasttrying to cheer us up Cowboy.