I was thinking that the entire time, "this is why I don't own a damn Dodge!" I love the old Mopar muscle cars, but that's where I'm drawing the line. I keep telling Nicole it's time to get rid of this thing.
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Mysterious brake troubles
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dont make me show you pics of under 60k miles brake rotors and even worse the almost 100k mile rotors i did on a 85%-90% florida driven truck all these from gm .
like i said its CRAP recycled material and piss pour standards .
like i said its CRAP recycled material and piss pour standards .
Florida has salt air and humidity, correct?
My wife's Acadia has 139K on it with the original rotors. And it's never had rear pads yet. She got it new in December of 2010.
But we don't live where mother nature and salt are trying to ruin everything! And we only get a little of the mag chloride to deal with.
I've seen this rust issue a few times. The pad dragging on it kind of covers up the rust and makes you think it's decent steel. If you take a grinder or something it will go right through the shine into brown. Really not much to be done for them at that point. Most of the time it forms on the inside surface so it must have something to do with retaining moisture back there. Of course everything looks fine until you pull the rotor.
The point of salt is to melt things, so even rock salt turns the road into brine that sprays everwhere, even on the roof. Road salt is truly insidious. Government seizure of our tax dollars used to vandalize our property.
Yeah, it irritates me when I think about how much money they are spending on the winter road spray and then talk about how there's no money for real road work.
You should see the mountain of salt in Providence RI that was shipped there from Egypt,to be distributed to all the DPW trucks--it's huge..
Its not the only one either,there are several more all over MA too..
It never snowed here ONCE since December,now they are all up in arms about whats going to become of it,the "eyesore" and potential harm it'll cause if it gets in the water supply,(like dumping it on the roads doesn't pollute it !
)--and complaints about the dust blowing off the pile by nearby residents..
I commented on a FB post about this salt pile and was immediately flamed by trolls,I said "people should learn how to DRIVE in snow,instead of us dumping salt on the streets,that rots away our vehicles in 5-10 years, and poisons water supplies,wells,and kills all the vegetation along the sides of the roads"..
One of the trolls said I was an "idiot"--I replied "Why--because you don't agree with my opinion & facts ?--you own a salt mine or something?"...he didn't have a comeback..
What a waste,paying to have salt shipped in from Egypt,only to never have it snow..I'm sure they'll dump a few hundred tons if we happen to get a minor dusting or freezing rain threat to get rid of it..don't know if it can be stored away for a year and still be effective..
From Egypt to Providence: 60-foot salt pile growing on Allens Avenue | WJAR
Its not the only one either,there are several more all over MA too..
It never snowed here ONCE since December,now they are all up in arms about whats going to become of it,the "eyesore" and potential harm it'll cause if it gets in the water supply,(like dumping it on the roads doesn't pollute it !
)--and complaints about the dust blowing off the pile by nearby residents..I commented on a FB post about this salt pile and was immediately flamed by trolls,I said "people should learn how to DRIVE in snow,instead of us dumping salt on the streets,that rots away our vehicles in 5-10 years, and poisons water supplies,wells,and kills all the vegetation along the sides of the roads"..
One of the trolls said I was an "idiot"--I replied "Why--because you don't agree with my opinion & facts ?--you own a salt mine or something?"...he didn't have a comeback..
What a waste,paying to have salt shipped in from Egypt,only to never have it snow..I'm sure they'll dump a few hundred tons if we happen to get a minor dusting or freezing rain threat to get rid of it..don't know if it can be stored away for a year and still be effective..
From Egypt to Providence: 60-foot salt pile growing on Allens Avenue | WJAR
Hopefully they will at least tarp it something, but I'd think it would probably have to go into some sort of container so that runoff from rain water doesn't just wash it away from the bottom of the pile.You should see the mountain of salt in Providence RI that was shipped there from Egypt,to be distributed to all the DPW trucks--it's huge..
Its not the only one either,there are several more all over MA too..
It never snowed here ONCE since December,now they are all up in arms about whats going to become of it,the "eyesore" and potential harm it'll cause if it gets in the water supply,(like dumping it on the roads doesn't pollute it !
I commented on a FB post about this salt pile and was immediately flamed by trolls,I said "people should learn how to DRIVE in snow,instead of us dumping salt on the streets,that rots away our vehicles in 5-10 years, and poisons water supplies,wells,and kills all the vegetation along the sides of the roads"..
One of the trolls said I was an "idiot"--I replied "Why--because you don't agree with my opinion & facts ?--you own a salt mine or something?"...he didn't have a comeback..
What a waste,paying to have salt shipped in from Egypt,only to never have it snow..I'm sure they'll dump a few hundred tons if we happen to get a minor dusting or freezing rain threat to get rid of it..don't know if it can be stored away for a year and still be effective..
From Egypt to Providence: 60-foot salt pile growing on Allens Avenue | WJAR
Supposedly it was intended to be distributed all over New England,and stored in the DPW quonset hut type "open shelters"..only trouble is they are still full in most areas due to the lack of snowfall this winter,after they got their first delivery or two..
I heard VT and NH got some of it,it has snowed further north up there,but the rest of the states got squat for snow--lots of rain instead,which I imagine soaked into the salt pile and diluted it and clumped it all up...
Each year most towns here allot a certain amount of money for the DPW to treat & plow the roads--and they add more if it turns out to be a "bad" winter,some years towns went into debt the snow was so severe--but in a winter like this one where they used hardly any salt,or did much plowing,I wonder where that money goes ?...my guess is in the town officials pockets or their pension plans..
I heard VT and NH got some of it,it has snowed further north up there,but the rest of the states got squat for snow--lots of rain instead,which I imagine soaked into the salt pile and diluted it and clumped it all up...
Each year most towns here allot a certain amount of money for the DPW to treat & plow the roads--and they add more if it turns out to be a "bad" winter,some years towns went into debt the snow was so severe--but in a winter like this one where they used hardly any salt,or did much plowing,I wonder where that money goes ?...my guess is in the town officials pockets or their pension plans..
