Did you cut those just in the rocker panel itself (I.e- the replaced area between the B and C pillar)? Does junk get up in there from the bottom?

 

 

Now this is my kind of thread. Just last month I had to waste a bunch of time to create a user account with a third party company to Simply go to the city web page to report a concern like report a pothole. That's the only way they do it. I had to lambaste them for salt brining the roads when we weren't going to get any accumulation. They waste money, waste waste waste and then they come to us and want more when they run out. They destroy our cars and it's unnecessary. Dayton Ohio. Kind of like Indiana, not the snow capital of the world. They should never even send a salt truck or plow truck out until there's two inches of snow.
it's getting worse to because all the soccer mom style people and all the younger Millennials and yuppies or whatever else don't want to get up early and be inconvenience by having to drive a little slower or more cautiously. They expect the roads to be plowed and so much salt that they're almost dry so they can just Barrel on down the road and not slide anywhere. We're getting a bunch of people who don't know how to drive in the snow and pretty soon it'll be like people in Atlanta. A little bit of ice or a half inch of snow and they lose their minds and crash everywhere and have to leave their cars on the side of the highway. People from real northern climates laugh at us. But these arrogant jerk cities who know everything or wasting money and destroying our cars.