Brine alert! This is not a drill!

I’ll be the bad guy here, because pretty much all of our cars are going to land in the junkyard one day. Don’t get me wrong I love a clean and detail vehicle just like everybody else on here and of course being such a large investment I hate to see my car getting rusted however if they put the product on the road and it prevents a major accident involving my wife and daughter from getting hurt or killed then I say Brine away til the cows come home!

It’s cheaper and more effective then rock salt, and when it comes to sacrificing either my car or my kid I could care less if my cars turn into a rusty mess.

We all know most people don’t know how to drive and when they are behind the wheel they are usually distracted anyhow so anything the state can do to prevent some moron from causing a major wreck is the right thing to do in my opinion. Knowing somebody that was killed in a car accident it is amazing how fast life can change. I hope that no one has to ever get that knock on the door or phone call.

If you guys are like me and are worried about rust you should utilize fluid film...it helps along with regular washings


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yakky said:
Who cares about the paint, its the underside of the car that gets the worst of it.
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Agreed my friend. It’s the bottom of these things that rust. Our protected paint isn’t to worry. Working on them you see that good lord do the under carriages get wasted on many cars in the salt belt


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WindyCity said:
I’ll be the bad guy here, because pretty much all of our cars are going to land in the junkyard one day. Don’t get me wrong I love a clean and detail vehicle just like everybody else on here and of course being such a large investment I hate to see my car getting rusted however if they put the product on the road and it prevents a major accident involving my wife and daughter from getting hurt or killed then I say Brine away til the cows come home!
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I don't know. I remember when a 30 car pileup would make national news, and the big ones, 100+, happened maybe every coupe of years. Now it seems like there are four or five 50+ pileups a year and 30 barely gets a comment in the news. Cars and road technology might be safer than ever, but the driver seems to find news ways to lower the standard.
 
Klasse Act said:
Been saying this for years! Wouldn't it be nice if tv and radio could remind people to check/replace their tires instead acting like it's Armageddon when it's 1-3" oiutside...imagine that!
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Even if you reminded people they wouldn't listen. Most people hate spending money on their cars... you're lucky if they get an oil change once a year.
 
WindyCity said:
I’ll be the bad guy here, because pretty much all of our cars are going to land in the junkyard one day. Don’t get me wrong I love a clean and detail vehicle just like everybody else on here and of course being such a large investment I hate to see my car getting rusted however if they put the product on the road and it prevents a major accident involving my wife and daughter from getting hurt or killed then I say Brine away til the cows come home!

It’s cheaper and more effective then rock salt, and when it comes to sacrificing either my car or my kid I could care less if my cars turn into a rusty mess.

We all know most people don’t know how to drive and when they are behind the wheel they are usually distracted anyhow so anything the state can do to prevent some moron from causing a major wreck is the right thing to do in my opinion. Knowing somebody that was killed in a car accident it is amazing how fast life can change. I hope that no one has to ever get that knock on the door or phone call.

If you guys are like me and are worried about rust you should utilize fluid film...it helps along with regular washings
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What I think people REALLY need over any amount of salt or brine or whatever is a lesson on how to drive in the snow.

I can't STAND when I'm driving along in snow and some idiot in an SUV comes whipping by me. The whole "I have AWD so I can drive the speed limit even though there's a blizzard" mentality is all too common.
A few years ago I was driving home from my mother's house on the highway and there was a blizzard. At the time I still had our F-150. I was in the right lane going maybe 30 the entire way, never had to engage the 4WD, just kept it in REAR WHEEL DRIVE. I can't tell you how many SUVs went blowing past me in the left lane... eventually I passed ALL of them as they were slammed into the guard rail or in the ditch on the side of the road.
 
I spent this past weekend doing a winter prep on my black DD. Clay, polish, re-clean and an application of WG Uber coating. I left it in the garage until it was time to head for work Monday morning. Lo and behold, I found myself behind a brine truck on my commute, with no escape route for almost a mile. The sign on the truck read "Liquid de-icer, please keep back". They didn't have to tell me twice! I just hope the 18 hours or so indoors was sufficient time for the coating to cure.

Bill
 
Good luck with that! That's one reason I moved down to Florida 20 years ago.
 
In Toronto here they brine before it snows and then salt after it plows. We're one of the few provinces where it's not mandatory to use winter tires, which I think is stupid as hell. For me, when it's fresh snow I go out and drive in it.. or try to before the plows get to it. The other night in the middle of a snow storm, I drove up to the countrysides just to drive in snow, and you can tell who still has their summer tires on. I remember this bmw 5 series rwd trying not to slip and going 30 under the limit.. I find with proper winter tires, you just have to watch your stopping distance and turns. Going forward is easy. I've also seen awd vehicles get stuck on hills because they still have their summers on.. salt and brine is a necessary evil here but at the same time, people don't know how to drive in winter. We get one snow flake here and people go crazy and do 20 under.
 
DetailKitty said:
What I think people REALLY need over any amount of salt or brine or whatever is a lesson on how to drive in the snow.

I can't STAND when I'm driving along in snow and some idiot in an SUV comes whipping by me. The whole "I have AWD so I can drive the speed limit even though there's a blizzard" mentality is all too common.
A few years ago I was driving home from my mother's house on the highway and there was a blizzard. At the time I still had our F-150. I was in the right lane going maybe 30 the entire way, never had to engage the 4WD, just kept it in REAR WHEEL DRIVE. I can't tell you how many SUVs went blowing past me in the left lane... eventually I passed ALL of them as they were slammed into the guard rail or in the ditch on the side of the road.
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I will agree that when you have any sort of four-wheel-drive Vehicle it gives you a false sense of security because when you stomp on the gas when you are stopped and the car accelerates at a decent pace you don’t realize how slippery the roads really are


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DetailKitty said:
Well boo- we got a few inches of snow this weekend and the townships have already gone insane with the salt and brine all over the roads :mad:
I really wish they would just leave the roads alone... the brine to me seems to create ice and lets's not forget the effect it has on our cars.

Enough with the brine!
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There would be to many accidents. People already can't drive as it is
 
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