Salt on the roads.

[454ssracetruck]

The sending unit rusted out on the Denali. Dropping the tank is always fun in the rust belt. I would have cut the bed if that would have worked. The truck is a 2012 with 191k miles. It would be great if the trucks survives another 2 years of farm and work use. Cooled seats sure are nice in a work truck.

[RallyDarkstrike]

@454ssracetruck I feel you - had to get the tank replaced in my 2009 Hyundai Accent hatch the year before last as it rusted out around the seam....and I even get the car undercoated every year

Thanks Nova Scotia D.O.T.!

[MM54]

@454ssracetruck I do my best not to pass up an opportunity to share the solution to so many issues with both vehicles and infrastructure degradation: ban road salt.

[Ad absurdum per aspera]

@MM54 said in Salt on the roads.:

I do my best not to pass up an opportunity to share the solution: ban road salt

There are a number of arguments in favor of that proposition, not just car longevity but the environment too.
https://www.epa.gov/snep/winter-coming-and-it-tons-salt-our-roads

Salt, though, is effective, brutally cheap, and more or less limitless. We put something like 25 million tons on US roads annually.

How we got here: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr235/017-030.pdf

[454ssracetruck]

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera The road salt is contaminating shallow wells in my area. My place is pretty rural.

[HoustonRunner]

@454ssracetruck If I still have my 2015 Suburban when it dies, dibs on buying your wheels. The Denalis have some great wheels across the lineup.

[ranwhenparked]

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera And in the early days of salting, in the 1940s, ca 160,000 tons would get the entire nation through the winter - we've got just shy of 4.1 million miles of road in the country, and are dumping about 6 tons of salt per mile on them every year, but its actually way more than that, since much of those 4.1 million are in areas that don't get cold enough to salt.

Not sure why we didn't need 24 million tons to handle things in 1941, when winters were colder and snowier, there were way more dirt roads, and cars were all RWD with drum brakes and no electronic nannies, but, somehow, we managed. People got to work, businesses got crucial deliveries.

[454ssracetruck]

@HoustonRunner Ha. I bought the wheels off from a 2021 At4. The stock wheels on the Denali were pealing chrome 20’s. I prefer 18”. Thanks for agreeing that the wheels look nice.

[HoustonRunner]

@454ssracetruck Ah, you are right, those are the AT4 wheels.

[Shop-Teacher]

@454ssracetruck Road salt is pure evil!

[beefchips]

@454ssracetruck fuck dude that’s another world. Out here 10 year old trucks go for 90% msrp

[pip bip]

@454ssracetruck road salt?

[pickup_man]

@454ssracetruck The struggle is real. The gas tank in my old F-150 had a self removal feature in which the road salt would eat away the straps and I'm guessing you can figure out the rest...there was a recall.

[454ssracetruck]

@pickup_man Ratchet strapping gas tanks up is really common around here.

[454ssracetruck]

@beefchips Oh used vehicles are still expensive here. The bad thing is you pay top dollar for something that only lasts a few years.