Just Pennsylvania or "Should I Undercoat?"

[Curmudgeon]

It’s that time of year in Pennsylvania where the roads aren’t paved, they’re brined. You pull onto Route Whatever and immediately your truck starts aging like milk. The salt hits the undercarriage and the check engine light blinks like “I just wanna go home.”

You crack the window and it smells like the Atlantic Ocean had a fight with a snowplow. Your tires sound crunchy, your brakes scream, and somewhere underneath you can hear rust forming in real time like Rice Krispies. By the time you reach your destination, your truck’s resale value has dropped another 15%, your exhaust has developed trust issues, and your once black truck is now Pennsylvania White. You don’t wash it because what’s the point, it’ll be re-salted before you finish backing out.

This isn’t winter maintenance, it’s a slow, state sanctioned sacrifice. Welcome to the Commonwealth, where the roads are salty, the vehicles are temporary, and we all just accept it like “yeah… that’s fair.”

*Posted here only because a 4th gen is what I have,
and this is what goes on every Winter.

 

[rzr6-4]

The county where I live in NE, the snow plow operators are completely incompetent. So to make up for that, for every inch of snow they put down an inch of salt. The snow will be melted off in 24 hrs but the chemical warfare lasts weeks afterwards.

A month or two ago we had a weather front coming in and I didn't know when it would be warm next, so I washed my bright red, freshly repainted Sierra. It snowed that weekend which is fine, but the salt spray completely covered the clean paint. I just rebuilt that truck and I don't want to immediately loose it to rust, so 2 days later I'm out there again scrubbing it down when it's 40F with a decent breeze. NE DOT and the local subsidiaries ruin everything.

 

[Wild one]

All that Brine $h!t does is collect snow,and then turns it into ice when the temps drop below it's actual useful working temperature.I miss the days when they actually used Sand on intersections.