Who came up with this stuff? Couldn't have been a car guy. This truck came to my dealership on a car carrier today, the carrier didn't look much different. There isn't any snow on the this GMC, just the new ice control formula Massachusetts is using on our roads! It's like driving around on baby powder filled roads. I understand it's for safety and all, but some towns here on the Cape are dumping this stuff when the temps aren't even at freezing. I don't even want to take my Buick out in the spring now! ---------------------- Eric
Thats a two-fer; its gonna keep the drains in the car wash from freezing too...then get pumped to the water treatment plant, and then... ws
That’s horrendous. My Hellcat got delivered in January 2016. We had no snow or salt that year before it came. I picked it up and drove it home February 1st the day before a storm. It was clean as a whistle. I thank God it didn’t arrive like that.
Can't be good for the environment either.... streams, rivers, trees, and the critters that habitate in them.
My 2010 Ford F-150 which I traded in for a Chevy had some serious rust going on underneath from this crap.
I was driving around yesterday and the roads over here looked like Jones Beach. That truck needs to be pressure washed. And even so, I doubt you'll get those salt deposits out of every nook and cranny.
This brine is like a fine powder when it dries on the road. As cars come toward you in the other lane there's a cloud following it like you're on a dry dirt road in the summer. My plan with my daily driver (2017 Accord) is every time the temperature outside goes above freezing at lunchtime, I'm going to do what I used to do when I had hair..........Rinse and repeat!!! This is ridiculous! ---------------- Eric
They lay stuff here before a storm....a liquid they call beet juice....guess i should find out what the hell they are putting into our environment now...... Peace WildBill
They are brutal here in MA. I have one house in western MA near NH. They use beet juice, brine, molasses, beer dregs, all kinds of crap. If I drive there today, my car will look like crap when I come back. Most of MA right now is like Eric said, it's like baby powder on the roads. If you car gets wet from a puddle it sticks. Bought an 2018 XSE V6 Camry last summer it's been in my garage for a while and I don't plan on taking it out til' Spring. I have a bunch of other stuff to drive in this crap.
I think Tennessee is using the baby powder too-I was up in the hills between Chattanooga and Nashville (Cumberland Caverns, McMinnville) and all the roads were powdery. Patrick
Good old fashioned rock salt used here in upstate NY. Even with that our vehicles are white but not near as bad as the one posted.
I have two 4x4 vehicles sitting in the barn right now, my 98 Tahoe and 96 Sierra, each in good daily driver condition. I refuse to take them out in this mess unless I get snowed in and need the 4wd. Looks like I'm going to the dump again in the Honda this weekend........ --------------- Eric
The news stated last week that 300,000 tons of (road) salt was shipped to Pa. from Egypt. That got me to thinking about the redistribution of the earth's minerals and what it must be doing to our ecosystem locally. We are supposed to have a bunch of fresh water lakes, streams and rivers. I guess they are all salt water now? And I also cringe when thinking about what this crap does to my vehicles too.
I say forget the "ice and snow melt chemicals" salt, beet juice, and whatever else they try, just plow the roads.
They don't even gravel here anymore. They just lay down more of the liquid ice melt (no idea what it is) that makes the roads even slicker than the ice they were trying to get rid of, rusts your bumpers, body, and ruins anything aluminum with stains and pits the first day they put it out. Which is usually a few days before it snows......
