New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine.

[Rockbadchild]

I wouldn't mind trying one, I am sure they are torquey engines, but I wouldn't buy one, maybe in a few years and the fact that there isn't any dip sticks sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.

 

[deserteagle71]

I hate you LOL

No humidity to speak of and steel lasts forever. When's the last time you saw humidity at 3%?

I find old derelict cars out in the desert all the time and they still look good. Bet this one has been out here for around 80 years and it still looks good:

 

[coobie]

I wouldn't mind trying one, I am sure they are torquey engines, but I wouldn't buy one, maybe in a few years and the fact that there isn't any dip sticks sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.

Being a old fart I wonder how many folks today even know where the dipstick is located.How many even check there oil.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Being a old fart I wonder how many folks today even know where the dipstick is located.How many even check there oil.

I only wonder where are mines and when was the last time I checked it. I would also wonder if I ever buy a vehicle without a dipstick how much are they and what work is involve to change them.

 

[Snobdds]

My wife's mercedes never had a dipstick. It was fine. It gave a visual indicator of the fluid level in one of the screens. The other parts of the car were a giant POS.

She learned her lesson with mercedes...never again.

 

[Hay Dude]

I built my house in Steamboat with infloor heat and water drains in the garage. I was seeing flash rust on stuff even after being allowed to dry. I then put a pretty robust dehumidifying system in and that took all the moisture out from the melting. It stopped the flash rusting.

It then dawned on me that it's not really the salt, but the humidity. I asked a buddy who was chemist and he said water dissolves positive ions in the water, letting electrons move faster through metal and the result is faster rusting.

Get your cars dry people...

Agreed. And it's worse if you have a vehicle that's almost exclusively driven in bad weather, such that it never has a chance to get blown dry on the nicer days.

Back when I was driving my trucks everyday, snow or sun, they didn't rust quite so quickly. But now I drive the truck only in bad weather, and drive a sedan when it's nice out, and the trucks seem to rot twice as fast. I think they retain the moisture longer, which they picked up in the prior day(s) snow, if you don't drive them to dry them out on the dry days.

When I am forced to drive after roads are treated, I spray the undersides of our vehicles with hot water and rinse them as thoroughly as possible. I’ll spend 15 minutes on rinsing till steamy clean water is all you see.

I have never had rust on a vehicle that I have owned since new.

 

[Hay Dude]

I wouldn't mind trying one, I am sure they are torquey engines, but I wouldn't buy one, maybe in a few years and the fact that there isn't any dip sticks sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.

Nothing like turbocharging to bring on the torque.

 

[WinterDeere]

What's worse is brine, it'll creep into places you wouldn't imagine and stick like no ones business.

I've seen a few make this claim, and honestly, I'm not buying it. Brine is simply salt in water, which is exactly what you have after rock salt has been pulverized by tires and mixed with snow. The beauty of brine is that they can cover the road surface with a small fraction of the amount of salt required, when distributing it in the form of rock salt, as so much of the rock salt ends up in the ditches on either side of the road.

Other than the amount of salt used, which is much less for brine, they are exactly the same. When it's deployed around here, applying it about 12-24 hours before a storm, it becomes a dry salt film on the road about 30 seconds after spraying.

When I am forced to drive after roads are treated, I spray the undersides of our vehicles with hot water and rinse them as thoroughly as possible. I’ll spend 15 minutes on rinsing till steamy clean water is all you see.

That would be a luxury. But when every day is filled with a half-dozen 10 - 30 minute trips, taking kids here and there or running to the local store, this quickly becomes impractical. Maybe one rinse at the end of the day would be do-able, but then still half of every day is spent with salt sitting on the vehicle.

 

[Hay Dude]

I've seen a few make this claim, and honestly, I'm not buying it. Brine is simply salt in water, which is exactly what you have after rock salt has been pulverized by tires and mixed with snow. The beauty of brine is that they can cover the road surface with a small fraction of the amount of salt required, when distributing it in the form of rock salt, as so much of the rock salt ends up in the ditches on either side of the road.

Other than the amount of salt used, which is much less for brine, they are exactly the same. When it's deployed around here, applying it about 12-24 hours before a storm, it becomes a dry salt film on the road about 30 seconds after spraying.


That would be a luxury. But when every day is filled with a half-dozen 10 - 30 minute trips, taking kids here and there or running to the local store, this quickly becomes impractical. Maybe one rinse at the end of the day would be do-able, but then still half of every day is spent with salt sitting on the vehicle.

I just wait until end of day, then hot wash the underside.
This procedure has served me well.

We had a frost proof hot water faucet installed just outside our garage for this sole purpose. We got a lot of use from it and have never had rust on our vehicles.

 

[WinterDeere]

I just wait until end of day, then hot wash the underside.
This procedure has served me well.

We had a frost proof hot water faucet installed just outside our garage for this sole purpose. We got a lot of use from it and have never had rust on our vehicles.

I guess I should consider it, but I'd have to resolve the icing on the driveway issue, as our driveway already gets dangerously icy and we have a lot of delivery vehicles in-out of the area adjacent to our garage.

I do have one spigot of softened water plumbed under our garage sink, which I can use for washing cars all winter long. It's not hot water, although I guess I could put a second spigot on the hot water tap without enormous trouble, or even a mixing valve between the two.