what do mechanics do with rust buckets in Massachusetts???

[jflower]

we like our rust. same reason we like our surf - kinda sucks but it's home.

[BillBrasky]

I live here in NE Ohio and the rust can get pretty bad, but nowhere near as bad as cars from the New England area. We have a lot of salt mines by the Great Lakes, so salt is the cheapest, easiest thing for the state to use. Everyone from California should have to work on a rusty car at least once to appreciate how easy they have it. My M3 has 186K miles, but almost all of them are from CA/AZ. I'm amazed at how clean everything is underneath. I'm used to looking under a car and everything is one color, rust.

[Axxe]

I'm glad you got a taste of what it's like to live here, you cali people are always talking about how dropping exhausts is a 10 minute job and why don't you just remove this this and this...on some cars such as the hoopty I've been working on recently every bolt on the underside of the car is a challenge. At least BMW's don't have tooooo many steel bolt in aluminum component galvanic corrosion issues, I hate that more than anything, when you try to remove a bolt that has become one in the same with the part you're trying to get out, that drives me nuts.

Honda control arm bolts (especially lower rear) do this no matter what. Such a pain, because changing a rear shock becomes changing rear shock + bushings.

[allwheeldrive]

Torch. Best thing ever invented. I wait for the day where i live somewhere without rust.

[Need4Speed1299]

Almost every car in wisconsin is rusty. More to repair and more to make money.

[KenC]

Assuming that the same rust damage happens to city and state vehicles, it seems that they would switch to chemical de-icer. The added expense has to be cheaper than dealing with the rust.

It's 26F here in Portland right now and they jut send the chemical trucks out all over to prevent I've from forming on the streets.

[BenM]

You CA/AZ guys have it easy. The worst is when there is crusty surface stuff and it ends up falling off into your eyes. fml.

[TimKninja]

Its a pain in the ass. Working on my shop teacher's Nissans, half the car is friggin rust.

Weird tho, my freind has a 94 Chysler LHS...That has only the slightest bit of rust on the door jams...everything else is completely rust free...its been on Salt Island all its like too.

[pbr87]

Just about any car more than 10 yrs old that has lived in N/E it's whole life is going to have rust. Some more severe than others.

[pbr87]

Weird tho, my freind has a 94 Chysler LHS...That has only the slightest bit of rust on the door jams...everything else is completely rust free...its been on Salt Island all its like too.

He probably undercoats it.

[BillBrasky]

Every time that I work underneath my cars and remove bolts, I replace them with quality stainless steel bolts as long as it is not for something that requires a specific torque or tensile strength from the bolt. I also load every bolt with copper C-5 anti-seize. The more stainless steel that I put on my car, the closer it will be to becoming a time machine. I'm just waiting for a used flux capacitor to show up in the random crap for sale section.

[e30vert]

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[phi]

most of the cars that i work on is all rust.. sometimes i wish i live in cali or fl. but we got no emissions check for cars odb1 and under here haha.