Matt_in_VA

This seems to be pretty much a common sense thing for anyone that has a "Garage Queen". But just in case you did not know.

Here is a link from a local car wash
| Salt Brine On Roads Destroys Cars!

No, I have never run our S through a commercial care wash. But the limo company that I drive for does, especially in the winter months.

kgf3076

I just never drive my S2k's in the Winter. Saves the concern, but a good thing to know. Just be aware that some car washes recycle water so that salt that washed off the car in front of you may be applied to your car.

The Raptor

Not a worry in LA.

dlq04

I was moving car's around this spring so the MG could claim its own garage again. I thought were the hell did all this salt come from? Then I remembered I had to use the Audi to transport my FL family from and back to the Detroit airport. It was unreal how much salt the tires picked up in a few days of winter use. Its only the 2nd time the Audi has ever been driven in the winter and its now 11 years old. I bought it because of its all-wheel drive for winter driving but ended up always using my truck.

hecash

My town and county in Illinois uses a brine mix of sodium chloride (salt), water and beet juice (25%). The beet juice lowers the effective temperature of the salt (adds sugar) to increase its effectiveness and also significantly reduces the corrosiveness of the brine. Due to the mild winter, we only had two applications of brine over this past winter.

tof

One more reason to move down south.

dlq04

For the sea salt?

Scooterboy

Our city uses brine every time it gets cloudy in the winter. With the mild winters in the last two years they have tons of extra salt in storage and when it snows they over use it. Some on the roads are still winter from the last storm two weeks ago.

Chuck S

Good old Cuyahoga County. Salt mine under the lake makes salt (and brine) easy to find.

-- Chuck

Scooterboy

Boy that is the truth!