around here its all sand, last winter i was in omaha and they used salt, i just took the car to the car wash when i got home and called it car maintenance.

 

This. flagstaff's got some pretty harsh winters and ADOT dosent let up on the road salt at all. i bought my f150 february 28th 2011, literally 2 days before a really big blizzard.

 

I plan on fixing it, but if I fix it right now, then I have to undercoat the truck. My truck runs lie a beast. I would be very sad if my truck still ran like it did from the factory. All that hippy emissions stuff choking the power out of it.

 

I meant in the way of it has no mechanical maladies. I don't have a smog pump hooked up, I don't have a catalytic converter, and I have magnaflow dual exhaust so all the emissions stuff is off.

 

You guys in the south crack me up sometimes. Up here in the real north we have a whole industry built around automotive rust protection, you take your car/truck to be sprayed with a special rust inhibiting undercoat EVERY SINGLE YEAR like clockwork, and that treatment will last all winter because it's sticky enough that it won't simply wash off. I usually do it in the fall as the temps start to drop and yes it does a great job of preventing rust from starting and also stopping existing rust from spreading. The two biggest organizations that produce and apply these rust treatments are RustCheck and Krown, a passenger car usually costs around $100 and a truck/SUV will cost about $130.

KROWN RUST CONTROL
http://rustcheck.com/

 

There was a company called Ziebart that did the winter undercoating when I lived in Indiana. It was pretty popular.