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In maintenance phase
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 806
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Quote:
Originally Posted by porwolf
About driving under road salt conditions: I remember when I drove in Germany it was common to take a car to a gas station before winter and have the underside sprayed with old engine oil. Then the car was to be driven over a dirt road to catch as much of dust underneath as possible. That oil-dust caking was a pretty good protection against road salt spray. The proof is that parts around an older oil leaking engine are never affected by road salt.
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I'm always slow to fix oil leaks for this exact reason. (At least that's what I keep telling myself!) 
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1969 911T (Getting a 72E heart transplant)
2004 Volvo XC70
Gone, but not forgotten:1971 Bug, 1978 Bus, 1982 Westy, 1996 GTi, 2000 Audi A4 2.8, 2001 Jetta Wolfsburg 1.8T, 2002 Audi allroad 2.7T, 2010 Jetta SportWagen TDi, and a couple of short lived 914s.
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