On Nov 18, 2005, at 16:41, droo wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:08:59 -0500, Terrible Tom
> <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Because we cherish our Dodges and don't want to see them disintegrate
>> under the 600
>> million metric imperial cubic megatons of salt that the D.O.T uses on
>> roads in the midwest
>> and north east.
>
> I live in NJ. Purchased a 96 dak in 98. Drove it until 2003. The truck
> was 7 years old and had no rust problems. I don't see how it's going
> to disintegrate unless you live by the ocean or park it under a salt
> pile.
driving in New York in the snow season is like parking under a salt
pile. they use straight salt and LOTS of it.
after 8 winters, I have a hole through the driver's rocker panel in the
club cab area, that pinch weld seam has clearly had a lot of rust for
about 2-3 years. That's 4 MN winters and 4 NY winters. I also have
rust-through in the flat part of the inner fender on the passenger side
but that's due to poor post-crash paint repair, there's scaly surface
rust there on the driver's side which was not crash-damaged.
at 10 years I'm sure it'll start looking quite shitty from salt-caused
rust. I really want to replace the club cab side panel but don't have
$1500 laying around to do it or the skills to do that level of body
work myself.
-- Michael Maskalans <http://mike.tepidcola.com/> mobile.612.618.4652 home.585.935.7129
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