We’ve currently got glorious warm sunny days for March, but also, being March roads full of salt after a week of cold nights and councils out gritting.
Any thoughts on this? Avoid the salt and miss the sunny drives out? If out and about getting salty, clean up regime afterwards?
Our Mk1 Berkeley lives in a garage and gets sorn every winter. Comes out of hibernation in March for MOT and tends to avoid salt (except for the odd over enthusiastic sprinkle over fish & chips on a run out).
I do try and keep off the salty roads until we’ve had the inevitable downpours to wash it off.
Having said that, the sun’s out tomorrow so I might have to just nip into the Peak District to check the road conditions up there!!
If it’s a dry day none of the salt (if there’s any on the road surface) will get up onto your car. Only your tyres will be contacting the road when it’s dry and that obviously doesn’t matter.
It’s when it’s wet and the salt in the water on the road surface is being thrown up from your tyres, from other passing cars or when going through puddles that it matters.
So enjoy the sunshine whilst we have it!
Sorry can’t agree with you. When dry salt is dust and it will be circulating in the air that you drive through. The passing of traffic will easily create enough energy to get it airborne. This dust will settle on all exposed parts of the car and the next time you drive in the rain it will become a saline solution.
The larger grains will also be airborne and will find a nice cosy home somewhere on the car ready to be dissolved by the next exposure to water.
If you are really concerned about salt then dry salty roads are not for you either.
I don’t know which part of the country you are from, don’t think I’ve seen gritting where we live for a number of weeks. Couple that with some pretty hefty showers last week here in South Derbyshire I think the salt has gone off the roads.
Having said that I heard a little whisper of wintery showers maybe next week.
We are down by the Suffolk coast this week, plenty of airborne salt around, life’s too short to worry about that, a good wash and brush up when I get back, the car of course.
Life’s too short.
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