I am so tired of fucking road salt destroying my fucking vehicle. I looked under my old jeep today to find a nice big rust hole in the floor of my jeep. YAY as if having my jeeps ignition jammed so I couldn’t turn the fucking thing off I arrive at the shop to see a pile of rust under my car wondering what it was I peeled the rust off to find a nice hole. I fucking hate road salt. Why can’t we use sand of course that would be too much tax for rich fucks who don’t care because they can afford to get a brand new car every three years while the rest of us are stuck driving old clunkers slowly being eaten by salt. I hate Nova Scotia i finally found the car I have always wanted to find out 4 days later its rusting away even know the previous owner took good care of it. Wonderful what a wonderful fucking day it has been. I wish my parents hadn’t moved here and I had stayed in B.C and been able to find tons of rust free jeeps for cheap but no I’m stuck in Salt Land watching the once beautiful vehicle i have wanted since i was little rust away before my eyes. How depressing! I hate salt it ruins my cloths, my boots and shoes my car my sidewalk I could got on and on Oh well guess its time I stop.
—rusting away
This article appears in Jan 29 – Feb 4, 2009.
Get your jeep undercoated. Most likely too late if it’s already rusted. I had a 93 til last year… still no rust..
Here’s a tip: don’t buy vehicles that are prone to rust! By the way, most of us drive cars that don’t use steel unibody construction (my Saturn of 10 years has never had rust) it’s prone to rust and it’s outdated form of consturction, besides, what the hell were you driving a bleedin’ jeep for anyways? I’m sure you need it for those times when you traverse a parking lot.
I’m driving a 95 volvo 940. No rust. ever. Before that I had a 1987 Volvo (lasted until it was totaled in a head on with a crane truck last summer) and when I had the underbody of the ’87 looked at last spring there wasn’t a speck of rust.
Both cars have been driven exclusively in NS…so…either use this as a lesson to spring for some undercoating (both of my cars were undercoated) on your next vehicle, or like Dr. Fever said: get a car without a steel unibody construction.
Jesus people are never happy: either there’s not enough salt out there or people complain there’s too much. Personally, I’d rather a bit more salt and not fall and break my ass like I almost did last week walking to the bus through my apt parking lot. But that’s just me. Some people value their vehicles more than say, a broken ass.
You bought a Jeep, which means you bought a rust bucket. Get Rust Check, undercoating, or buy something that isn’t known to turn into a pile of dust after one winter., Your car will still fucking rust, btw, since we’re more or less surrounded by ocean. I’ll be happily driving my Tupperware Saturn.
Though I think this bitcher is insane… I’m glad this was brought up. We need MORE salt… end of story.
But for those uneducated in car maintenance, how often should an undercoating be had?
Are we talking every year or can it really go every other year and people are just wasting money?
Move to the country where people have wells. Then, bitch about how iced up the roads are.
Undercoat. Do it every year.