Salt....
 

So we had about a quarter inch of snow today and they salted the hell out of the roads. After spending big $$$ last year to rebuild the steering rack, replace tie rods, ball joints, sway bar and all hardware that was corroded I'll be putting her up for the winter. Pretty sad, all I managed this year was 1900 miles. Hope to do better next year.

Happy Holidays.

PENN DOT must have budget left in 2010.
The bright side is with less than 5k miles a year, no emissions inspection. Helllllllo CatBypass

In Oregon they don't salt. They just use red volcanic rock... big ones. Can you say windshield?

In Australia, we don't have snow:thumbup: except at the mountain resorts.........

All year motoring..............:corn:

We have had no snow in Denver and when it does, no salt... so I am still driving mine.

hehe, in Canary Islands, we haven't got snow, exept in the Teide (3718m mountain).

Regards!

I bought a 911 from the UK many years ago. As it turned out, there was only half a car there.

Sadly, our roads, and my car, are encrusted in salt these days. I have been using a product (no affiliation...) called TC-11 to spray everything underneath the car prior to the salt season. I believe it really helps protect things. I also find it (somewhat surprisingly) that it is quite good for unfreezing rusted nuts and bolts, as good or better than wd40 and pbblaster. YMMV

I want to keep driving the C4 - but also couldn't believe the amount of salt put down in suburban philly for that dusting.

DWS - I'm going to look into TC11.

Any other preventative maintenance suggestions for a car about to see some salt?

Thanks!

We had a bit of ice on the roads yesterday - so took the C4 to work for added stability and to laugh at all the guys with high center of gravity 4x4 trucks stuck in ditches - C4 did great by the way, just one little slide in a turn for a fraction of a second and she caught - I love this car.

In this part of NC they don't have salt, or really and way of dealing with ice and snow - so they just tossed down sand and crushed gravel all of the roads. Being behind someone coming home sounded like a bag of popcorn popping with all the gravel hitting the front and windscreen. Needless to say I kept my distance.

Darrell - Can you recommend a supplier for TC-11? It sounds like something that I'd like to try.

A couple inches of snow paralyzes this area. They historically have used little-to-no salt here, just sand. But the state and many of the cities have taken so much heat for how poorly they handled the roads in the last few 'snow events', that they've started using salt, magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, etc., pretty liberally. :mad:
So between staying away from that stuff, and waiting for them to sweep the grit off the streets after a snow so that my car doesn't get shotgunned with rockchips, I often go several weeks at a time without driving it in the winter.
It's a pisser, because winters are really mild here, usually just rain. But I refuse to drive it in that corrosive sh*t. :surr:

I bought a gallon on-line:
http://www.tc-11.com/
and I need to order another gallon.
I have used it 2 seasons on the C4, and when working on the '33 Packard to get things loosened up and protected.

http://www.buyroadwrap.com/

I use this hillbilly paint film for po' folks.
No affiliation, just the fact that I've used it several times on different cars and it does the trick.
Looks like hell, but who cares (although more time spent on it produces a better result).
I would think this stuff would work well for track guys too, in lieu of tape.

Not exactly on point as its the C4S, but newly mounted snow tires allowed me to forge through the chain control and run up to go skiing today. 6" of fresh powder was piled on the car when I got back to it 6 hours later.

(For 964 content, I've heard there's a one owner 138K '91 C4 floating around for ~$10K. If one of the racing friends doesn't pick it up, I probably will. And it will be set up for hardcore winter duty.)