Reply To: How do you know when a vehicle is too far gone?
Hey Helot,
Yes, I’m lucky in that they rarely have to put salt on the roads here, and when they do, I don’t have to drive in it. My rust-free Excursion is from Montana- plenty of snow, but they don’t use salt because it’s usually too cold for it to do any good. Michael67 had some good advice, and or you can do what a lot of upstate NYers do, and that is have a beater car for the salty weather. Rust is a killer of cars. You go to AZ, or CA. etc. and you still see a lot of 40+ year-old vehicles still driving around, ’cause they don’t rust there.
If you drive in the salt, if you can hose off the crud..out of the wheel wells, off the body, and underneath it’ll go a long way to preventing rust…but yeah, it’s a pain…and whop wants to do that when they come home on a cold day?!
When I was still in NY, I’d basically just buy older cars that were in decent shape (you can usually find some) and just drive ’em for a couple of years and then sell them for what I paid for them and get another. There was no sense putting money and work into a long-term vehicle (much less buying a new one!) when it would just deteriorate after a few years from the salt and grime and surface-of-the-Moon-like roads.
Currently trying to sell my rusty old F250 so I can get a rust-free one from out west…then I’ll be set!
And yes, re; Uncle Tony in that vid wanting more laws and inspections. What can you expect from an exNYer? (Well, one who isn’t me, anyway). That’s the NYC versio nof an “anarchist’ I guess… LOL. What amazes me, is that you would think after seeing this world around us with all of it’s laws and oversights and regulations and inspections and everything in so many different facets of endeavor, and yet fraud and corruption prevail, you’d think that they wouldn’t be so naive as to think that somehow more of the same is going to fix the same in their sphere of endeavor!
In fact, it always seems that the more something is regulated, the more the honest get forced out, and those who are willing to work the system prosper to the point where it becomes a waste of time to even try to exercise due diligence because everyone is corrupt and the system protects them as long as they play along with the system, while they’ll crucify the honest little guy for not dotting an ‘i’ or paying off the right person or having the right license or permit, which costs so much that it raises the price that the customer must pay.
“If only the government would watch over us more carefully so that we don’t have to exercise due diligence…my anarchist heart would be happy!” 😀