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Originally Posted by Reveeen
Road salt here is the very least of one's vehicle worries.
In the guise of cost cutting they are currently spraying sea water on the roads here in the winter.........and when you see them out "salting" the roads, that isn't salt, or what one would consider salt, it is about 10% "pit tailing" (crusher dust), 20% salt, and 70% potash (potassium oxide).
I have never seen, short of battery acid, anything as corrosive as a potash/water mix. And most scary of all, it conducts electricity, so as vehicle computer use increases, so do the potential problems. I have seen tractor trailer lighting plugs completely shorted out (and arcing) from potash/water.
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Yuck! :!:
I don't miss the East Coast salt where I grew up. It's very rare to see rust on cars out here, even old poorly maintained ones. No road salt that I know of. Maybe in the passes, but I think even up there they use sand.