Northern owners- wait for clean streets?
04-25-2018, 04:23 AM
#11
I'm in MN also. I took mine out of storage weeks ago but then shipped it south to FL for some work to be done on it. So I won't be driving it up here until mid-May.
That said - I'd drive it now - just watch those horrid pot holes all over the city. Many are big enough to swallow an S2000 whole! I'd also try and avoid driving in lanes or on the sides of roads (side streets) with the sand and salt still visible.
That said - I'd drive it now - just watch those horrid pot holes all over the city. Many are big enough to swallow an S2000 whole! I'd also try and avoid driving in lanes or on the sides of roads (side streets) with the sand and salt still visible.
04-25-2018, 06:27 AM
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I only lasted a year and a half in Minneapolis when I got a new job. Wife and I had been too many places to stay there. Lutherans, flat land, rusted cars, mosquitoes and viscous biting flies drove us on. Doncha know? Taxes even went down after moving to California. Never looked back.
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04-25-2018, 07:00 AM
#13
A lot of salt dried up on the ground here in WI. Also a lot of rocks and pebbles at the street curbs from plows tearing up the streets.
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04-25-2018, 10:44 AM
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Couldn't take it anymore and drove her into work this morning! A bit of gravel on the side streets, but the highways were pretty clean as long as I avoided the potholes. Will wash it this weekend and do some maintenance, but probably won't drive it again until we get some rain - felt good to get it out again!
04-25-2018, 03:22 PM
#15
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Up here in the Great White North I will wait another week or so until the roads have been washed by the rain, would rather wait than regret a salt dusted underbody.
04-26-2018, 05:56 AM
#16
I only lasted a year and a half in Minneapolis when I got a new job. Wife and I had been too many places to stay there. Lutherans, flat land, rusted cars, mosquitoes and viscous biting flies drove us on. Doncha know? Taxes even went down after moving to California. Never looked back.
Sierra Nevada was created by God just for the S2000.
Sierra Nevada was created by God just for the S2000.
Here in Chicago my cars are waiting for a good salt-clearing rain to fall. I had a 1994 Acura Vigor succomb to salt-induced rust. It's worth it to wait.
04-26-2018, 09:10 AM
#20
What part of MN are you in? Northern side of the Twin Cities here.
I like to wait until the first spring rain washes the salt off the roads. I think most of it is gone, but either way I had mine out last weekend. I instruct at our autocross club (Minnnesota Autosports Club if you are interested!) novice school, which was last weekend. Part of that day is allowing students to ride in the instructors cars, so I had mine there. First two competition events this weekend so it is pretty much out of "storage" at this point
I think in terms of salt you are pretty safe. Still gritty on the roads though.
To add to the depression, we are running our events this weekend at Canterbury and are re-designing the courses to go around the big piles of snow still on the lot. But the weather should be nice either way.
I like to wait until the first spring rain washes the salt off the roads. I think most of it is gone, but either way I had mine out last weekend. I instruct at our autocross club (Minnnesota Autosports Club if you are interested!) novice school, which was last weekend. Part of that day is allowing students to ride in the instructors cars, so I had mine there. First two competition events this weekend so it is pretty much out of "storage" at this point
I think in terms of salt you are pretty safe. Still gritty on the roads though.
To add to the depression, we are running our events this weekend at Canterbury and are re-designing the courses to go around the big piles of snow still on the lot. But the weather should be nice either way.