DSM IV: A Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Car Disorders

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Fuelslt1: Jun 23, 2007; Maybe if I sell enough undercoating, I'll eventually stop being a gigantic prick.

MikeyTsi posted:

It would be good if someone could look at it; the guy says it's an ABS car with no sunroof, but didn't respond to my request for information about the interior. He also said that he was getting the car checked out to verify if it's in fact the CAS.

Also no real information about rust, which is a concern on a Colorado car. From the pictures it doesn't look like a big problem on the shock towers or the engine bay, but there are some other problem areas to look at.

Rust...on a Colorado car?

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Fuelslt1: Jun 23, 2007; Maybe if I sell enough undercoating, I'll eventually stop being a gigantic prick.

MikeyTsi posted:

They salt the roads, do they not?

They use a mixture of sand and/or magnesium chloride depending on where you are in CO and what the conditions are like.

No salt.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 17:20

Fuelslt1: Jun 23, 2007; Maybe if I sell enough undercoating, I'll eventually stop being a gigantic prick.

kastein posted:

mag chloride isn't typically thought of as "salt" by anyone but chemists and maybe people with BP issues, but I think KCl is the usual salt substitute not MgCl2.

However, it's the chlorine atoms that catalyze rusting, so, welp. Magnesium chloride may cause it slower but it should still do the same thing, theoretically. CO's rustfree status probably has more to do with the fact that it's basically a high altitude desert with super low humidity most of the time.

Yeah...whatever this guy just said.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2016 16:10

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