Which States are Clean?

[phatjo911]

Title might be misleading but...

Which states don't salt their roads?I'm going to be making a purchase of an S13 sometime in the coming year, but up here in MA it's all rust buckets because of the salted roads.

Which states have cars with no rust? ( somewhere within... 24 hours straight of driving ) Or just somewhere near the east cost...

Thanks.!

[90gtpony]

I would have to say southern car that has stayed away from the beach.

[DRS_S13]

Down here its HARD TO FIND a car WITH RUST lol.

[CRyan]

Down here its HARD TO FIND a car WITH RUST lol.

Hot hell - dothan alabama - i used to live out there in my younger days (i might have already told you that ha)

Anyway - Tennessee is about as far as I'd go - west TN, without the mountains lol.

Here in MS, 240s (s14 chassis) are hard to come by. Louisiana normally has a good selection. Arkansas I would think. . .

[xX RB Xx]

Hot hell - dothan alabama - i used to live out there in my younger days (i might have already told you that ha)

Anyway - Tennessee is about as far as I'd go - west TN, without the mountains lol.

Here in MS, 240s (s14 chassis) are hard to come by. Louisiana normally has a good selection. Arkansas I would think. . .

Tennessee is great for 240's, ive failed to own a 240 with rust.

Hell we close schools and stock up on food if there is a chance of snow

[SirSilvia]

Here in butler SUCKS! added top the routine spring tune up. I added post salty road recovery. washing car top to bottom, under the carpets too, they soak up a lot of water and it just sits on the body.Hopefully this year i'll remove the interior and the tar sound deadening then add a fresh coat of pant then FatMat.I scrub the engine bay and spray it down as well, I no longer have the shroud that goes under the engine so it gets dirtier. i want a skid plate so bad. PennDOT sucks all around, they use this $hit called "calcite" I believe its a liquid they spray the roads with, 10x worse than salt on a car.

[SirSilvia]

Correction:

Most of the liquid anti-icers and de-icers applied by CDOT are mineral salt compounds in liquid form, such as magnesium chloride, that lower the freezing point of the moisture on the roadways. Magnesium chloride is a naturally occurring element and is extracted from salt-water solutions, most commonly the Great Salt Lake. To extract the magnesium chloride brine, water is removed from the salt water by solar evaporation or other forms of energy, and a simple refinement process, until elements have been extracted resulting in magnesium chloride brine.

[mattblancarte]

AZ

[QuicksilverFX]

there can be rust free cars anywhere, most people just don't take care of thier cars and are hard to find. i was lucky to be able to get a rust free 91 hatch in Kentucky and we get snow every year

[krimsonviper]

I'd figure Texas, Mid-Cali, AZ, maybe New Mex. I don't know if it snows in New Mex though.

[Amtk240]

I would suggest Southern Virginia, such as the city of Richmond, and also North Carolina and states south. That would keep you along the I-95 corridor. Where I live in Virginia seems to be the snow cut-off point. It doesn't hold true all the time but I get snow here in the Fredericksburg area while Richmond, VA gets rain showers instead.

My first S14 was purchased in Florida and my second one I bought locally and there is no rust on the car.

You could always take the train from the Boston area to somewhere like Richmond, VA and have the seller meet you and drive back home in your new ride. It doesn't take that long on the train up where your at. The trains run up to 150mph from Boston to Washington, DC. Just an option...

[whyteboi]

i got mine from a guy that had recently moved here from flordia. maybe a very small spot or two of surface rust.

it was never in any snow till it became my DD, but beat as it is i still clean the hell out of it to keep the salt off.

down south is your best bet

[Tulsa_S-13]

Pretty much you're good with the southern states. Oklahoma salts their roads before it ices, but I've never seen rust problems on 240s here unless they were from up north.

[Philipio]

If it freezes or snows here (usually freezes one or two days out of the year, "snow" once every few years), they put salt on some bridges. I avoid bridges for a few days and it's all good.

[Flicktitty]

inside the red, but becareful of the salt from the ocean.

[MastaYu]

nc is not bad

[phatjo911]

Yeah so looks like I will save up about$3K for an S14 down in TN ( I've been checking on autotrader and there are a surprising number of S14's in that state. )~$300 for a rental car down there

~$150 for gas

Probably going down there for february vacation next year, when it warms up ( or starts to ) here in MA.

[dtowndrifter]

yea i have gashes all under my chassis...no rust...these gashes are old too...

[phatjo911]

what do you mean gashes?

[heartofaskyline]

Yeah so looks like I will save up about$3K for an S14 down in TN ( I've been checking on autotrader and there are a surprising number of S14's in that state. )~$300 for a rental car down there

~$150 for gas

Probably going down there for february vacation next year, when it warms up ( or starts to ) here in MA.

tons of cheap 240's down here. s13's are 2k and less for a running rust free good interior coupe or hatch.s14's are about 3k-4k. but i found a 97 kouki 5spd for 2500 last week. had a dent in the pass door. i woulda bought it but im lacking the funds

[heartofaskyline]

Yeah so looks like I will save up about$3K for an S14 down in TN ( I've been checking on autotrader and there are a surprising number of S14's in that state. )~$300 for a rental car down there

~$150 for gas

Probably going down there for february vacation next year, when it warms up ( or starts to ) here in MA.

tons of cheap 240's down here. s13's are 2k and less for a running rust free good interior coupe or hatch.s14's are about 3k-4k. but i found a 97 kouki 5spd for 2500 last week. had a dent in the pass door. i woulda bought it but im lacking the funds

[heartofaskyline]

srry double post

[LeroyBrown]

I'd figure Texas, Mid-Cali, AZ, maybe New Mex. I don't know if it snows in New Mex though.

yeah it snows here a lot. but my S14 has no rust on it at all.

[Shabbernigdo]

not sure about all of missouri but arround where i live they just use sand on the roads no salt

[phatjo911]

Well looks like a trip to Tennessee next February hehe

And then maybe I'll even post a build thread! ZOMG!

[s13beast]

wtf is rust?

[aceofspds]

wtf is rust?

Unless your **** is a hurricane katrina car (which my s14 was)

Best bet is AL/GA/MS/LA and about 30 mins from the coast from hurricane impacted areas (mainly MS and LA)

[phatjo911]

If there's a lot of frame rust... will the car break in 2 during my mad tyte dorifto action?

Or does it not work that way?

[presidential]

It's not just salted roads that rot a car, it's also the air. Down here in FL, we get the wonderful rot everywhere from the salted air.

[tEknoS13]

anywhere it doesn't snow/rain a lot