Ice on the roads

"yitznewton" (yitznewton) 01/06/2016 at 09:22 • Filed to: brace yourselves

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Here in northern NJ, it’s been below 20 degrees F the last couple nights. While it hasn’t rained, iced, or snowed yet, there is some runoff collecting on the roads, which has now frozen.

This means two opposite edges of the sword.

Firstly: no fast corners unless I know they are currently ice-free.

Secondly: the tell-tale clink in the wheelwell confirms that they have begun salting the roads!

Yesterday I took my first trip to Billman: Long Island’s S2000 expert mechanic. The bittersweet news as we got the car up on the lift: zero rust underneath. Sweet, because, sweet! Bitter, because I’ll have a hefty responsibility keeping it that way while driving it in the NJ winter.

I had almost hoped there would be some modicum of surface rust to assuage my guilt a little. Ah well. YOLO. Back to reviewing the corrosion prevention tips.

JGrabowMSt > yitznewton 01/06/2016 at 09:33

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POR15. Lots and lots of POR15.

crowmolly > yitznewton 01/06/2016 at 09:35

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Now is the time to start a rust prevention project. If the metal is still very clean and smooth you need to pick a product appropriately.

crowmolly > crowmolly 01/06/2016 at 10:06

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Oh, and PS:

A good idea is to search around to see if there are any common S2000 rust areas; where water/moisture/salt gets trapped. Attack those first!

B/Xmrrmvr > yitznewton 01/06/2016 at 11:36

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No issues on the Cross Bronx Expy to Garden State for me this morning. And I didn’t realize there was a S2000 specialist on the Island, sweet.

yitznewton > B/Xmrrmvr 01/06/2016 at 11:57

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Yeah, I’ve just been on the local streets.