Tractor lots are full

[scootr]

I'm a car enthusiast. I frequent online auctions and car forums. I won't buy a car that comes from a road salt state.

 

[lman]

They are starting to switch to CaCl in my area too. It’s less damaging to vegetation than MgCl. Neither are corrosive to vehicles.

Calcium Chloride is a salt and will increase corrosion/rust as will any salt.

Because it is a salt, calcium chloride in water is an electrolytic solution. Exposing materials to an aqueous solution containing calcium chloride increases the likelihood and the rate of corrosion.

 

[ddbackhoe]

Not nearly as capable or handy as the Amarok.

Are you moving?
“will ride out of Ford’s South African Silverton plant but again, it’s not heading into the US.”

https://www.hotcars.com/this-is-why-the-volkswagen-new-amarok-will-not-come-to-the-us/

 

[ddbackhoe]

I don’t know why the Midwest still uses rock salt on icy roads. There are several non corrosive alternatives. It amounts to local governments destroying everyone’s vehicles. The magnesium chloride and sand/cinders used by my state highway department are non corrosive. Many other western states also use those materials. And no vehicle corrosion.

Where are you going to get cinders(boiler slag) now?

 

[ddbackhoe]

Unusual for a Kubota Dealer to close.

not if they got bought up during covid (cares act help?) oh wait, that would be another tinfoil issue

 

[jyoutz]

Where are you going to get cinders(boiler slag) now?

They use volcanic cinders from cinder hills. Where not available, they use sand.

 

[jyoutz]

Calcium Chloride is a salt and will increase corrosion/rust as will any salt.

Because it is a salt, calcium chloride in water is an electrolytic solution. Exposing materials to an aqueous solution containing calcium chloride increases the likelihood and the rate of corrosion.

Maybe I have the chemical formulation incorrect. Whatever chemical they mix with sand or cinders doesn’t corrode vehicles.

 

[jyoutz]

I'm a car enthusiast. I frequent online auctions and car forums. I won't buy a car that comes from a road salt state.

The car dealers in my area won’t take those rusty vehicles in trade.

 

[scootr]

The car dealers in my area won’t take those rusty vehicles in trade.

My first cars were from salt states. Beautiful 1950s and 60s cars with crumbing rocker panels and their fenders flopping in the breeze

 

[TimberFarm]

I would never even consider buying a vehicle from Kalifornia either. Too much Newsome pollution junk.

When you are from rustbelt areas you specifically go to CA, AZ, because they are rust free.
In the 2000's I took multiple trips to CA to pickup 70's Toyotas and body parts. Trailer them back to NJ where I would resell for a nice tidy profit. Hispanic community demand for them is sky high.
On the flip side, due to the hot dry climate the demand for plastic parts in AZ and CA was high because that deteriorates there like metal rusts here.