Re: !@#!*@! Road Sand!!!

["Carlyle Fitzgerald (Carlee)" <e9706930@main.citynet.net>]

> What do you folks (that have winters) do for protection against the road
> sand that's dumped during winter???

Here in West Virginia, the road crews try to deplete a year's worth of salt with 
every snow!  To make matters worse, the mix it with some kind of *cinders* and 
gravel, not sand.

What I do for protection is basically just wash and wax the damn thing at every 
opportunity.  I try to build up a good coat of wax during the summer and every time 
it's at least fifty degrees through the winter.  I take the car to a spray wash and 
spend lots of time spraying the fenderwells and the floorpan.

It also helps a lot not to have very many things like fender flares and so forth; 
road gunk gets up in there and just stays, creating rust in invisible places.  Even 
worse, every time it rains, those places get wet, speeding the action of salt even 
more.

Not much can be done about the windshield, as far as I know.  I use Rain-X all the 
time, which seems to help it stay cleaner.  I'm sure that sand and stuff cuts right 
through it, though.

And to think I used to wish W. Va. would use sand instead of salt!


Carlee
clfitz@citynet.net

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