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You’ve obviously never lived somewhere that salts during the winter. Where road salt is used you don’t see many vehicles that old.
by 0_____0 4y ago
You’ve obviously never lived somewhere that salts during the winter. Where road salt is used you don’t see many vehicles that old.
- ericd 4y agoWe do, we have a couple Toyotas older than that. Paint tech has come a long way since cars were rusting out left and right.
- perceptronas 4y agoThe trick is to buy used cars from regions that don't have salts during the winter. If I look at cars imported from US, I look at ones from Texas and etc.
- 0_____0 4y agoI brought a pickup truck from CA to the northeast and promptly sold it for $2000 more than I bought it for 4 years prior. Inventory issues were part of it but indeed the rust free frame was highly desirable.
- sokoloff 4y agoThat’s not at all obvious to me, who drives a 18 year old Honda that’s lived its entire life in upstate NY, NH, and MA. It’s true that rust will likely be the eventual reason to retire it, but probably not for another 5-10 years.
- 0_____0 4y agoGo outside and count the cars that are older than 15 years. Then go to California and do it. It’s different.
- sokoloff 4y agoNo one claimed that salt usage made no difference. That's a far lesser claim than concluding that someone driving a 17 year old car has obviously never lived where the roads are salted. Despite being a lower percentage than CA, there are plenty of perfectly usable 17+ year old cars on the roads in New England.
- tasuki 4y agoEastern Europe represent. We use lots of road salt and plenty 17 year old cars.
- dgudkov 4y agoIt's not really comparable. Northern US and Canada use way more salt on roads and it's not the regular salt (it's forbidden) but a pretty aggressive mix of various salts. I've never seen so many not so old but already rusty cars as in Quebec, Canada.