Unlike "Back East and the Mid-West" we don't see "Rusted out hulks" here in CA and NV because we don't use Sodium Chloride (Salt) on our roads. And yes, I washed the Aston within a couple of hours of returning home.

 

Here in Minneapolis there's too many chemicals and no amount of washing is going to get every nook and cranny under chassis Engine compartment etc.

As soon as the chemical start going on the streets at CM of my driving for this year in till spring when the rain washes off the roads and I'm not sure when it'll be because we've had an incredibly warm November. For my winter beater, I have a 2015 Mustang on a lease with the performance suspension and Perelli 20 inch winter tires which are amazing the best winter tires incredible in the snow and ice.

As a side note I was shot a few weeks ago and it damaged my drivers fender where the bullet or pellet hit it. Morries Aston Martin did an awesome incredible job of matching the alloro green paint of my vantage GT

 

James can afford to replace his machine on a regular basis. I can not and even if I could I think it's fundamentally wrong to expose a finely crafted machine to the elements of winter. I would never buy a car of this stature that was used in the winter. These cars are too nice to destroy in that manner. For James, it's just a rental.......

 

Wrong......no amount of washing can un-do salt infiltration.....

 

I have never driven a special car during a CT winter. Crazy as I may be, my cars never even see the rain. My new R8 and V8V are toys that are only used for the pleasure of driving. My cars are stored with the first snow and aren't awakened until the spring rains have cleansed the roads.
My 11 year old V8 Jeep handles the winter with complete competence.

 

I agree 100% with your snow policy.....that's exactly what I do. I do not fear rain, however, as I feel it can have a beneficial flushing effect. I have a pristine 64 Stingray that I road trip often and I sometimes get caught in the rain. I get home and the car looks like 10 miles of bad road but after a wash job......perfect as before. There is no un-doing the ravages of salt, however.

 

"There is no un-doing the ravages of salt, however." I agree, and if I lived in the East or Mid-west, I would never drive my Aston where they put Salt on the Road. California and Nevada do not use SALT, they use Magnesium Chloride to melt ice.

 

You have piqued my curiosity.......I will have to research this mysterious substance.

 

I am finding many articles stating mag chloride is still highly corrosive to metals. It is also made from the brine of ocean salt so it's salt based. Not for me.

 

Chemistry 101: a salt is simply a compound made from acid and base ions.

Colloquially, people mean sodium chloride when they speak of salt; this is table salt and the main component of sea salt.

Magnesium chloride is a salt like any other. It is highly corrosive.

The most common salt used for deicing roads and for dust control is calcium chloride. It is generally cheaper than mag chloride.

 

It's just a car, if you only want to look at it buy a model, if you want to use it for its intended purpose, buy the real thing. I live in OR if I didn't take cars in the rain I would not drive them 9 months out of the year. Hell I can't wait to take my Lambo in the snow... But it's AWD :-)

 

No problem with rain. No, it's not just a car.........It's a finely crafted machine that deserves to be treated with respect.

 

An Aston is not a Camry.
Admittedly, my "rain thing" is basically crazy but to use any special vehicle in the snow and sand/salt makes no sense. In my opinion it feels almost disrespectful.

 

Organic Road Salt like they use in CO is fine. But In MidWest and East Coast they use Chloride Road Salt. You can NOT wash off chloride ions, no matter how many washes. You have to add a de-salinizing agent to the wash to protect your car. Chloride ions will effect chain reaction to the metal, and that is why I call them slow eaters. They eat car slowly.

 

Say what????