How long do you wait?

[Moparsmitty]

I won't take mine out until all the snow is gone and we get 2or 3 good soaking rains to wash salt off the roads maybe late April

It rained a couple of inches here last week (what a surprise in NW Washington huh?) and washed the salt brine off the highway so I'm good to go. If there's a hint of frost or ice around here they spray down the highways with this salt brine mix that I call pickle juice. The state must have a couple million gallons of that crap stored somewhere because they love to hose down the roads with it. It's like driving your car off into the ocean when you are driving through that crap. It's no wonder there are so many rust buckets driving around here.

 

[Nick2317]

It rained a couple of inches here last week (what a surprise in NW Washington huh?) and washed the salt brine off the highway so I'm good to go. If there's a hint of frost or ice around here they spray down the highways with this salt brine mix that I call pickle juice. The state must have a couple million gallons of that crap stored somewhere because they love to hose down the roads with it. It's like driving your car off into the ocean when you are driving through that crap. It's no wonder there are so many rust buckets driving around here.

Yea they have the same crap here they just call it "pre teater" for the roads but you can see all the white outlines on the road from the salt

 

[HT413]

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Lol, I'm in NJ, so except for rare years like the one we're having now, snow doesn't generally stick around too long and throughout the winter there are plenty of days the roads are salt /sand free. So if it's a nice crisp winter day and the roads are clear, dry and salt free, you can bet I'm rippin it up somewhere if I have the time.

 

[Propwash]

More power to you HT413. Drive it like you stole it! Wish I could say the same. Around here, salt is on the road from at least November to April and it doesn't leave. Usually by spring, everything within 10-20 foot of the road is covered in a salty powder or crust. It usually takes a couple really good rains to get rid of it. With this winter, seems like it won't be to June till I get to drive my car!

 

[64BEL]

Yes, it'll be a late wake up this year. It could very well be May, but I'm hoping for April. It's often March, but that notion is totally laughable this year. I'm with most of you guys - not until a few good rains wash the salt off the road. Plus, my car takes my truck's place in the garage, and I don't like scraping frost off the truck windows in the morning.

 

[Propwash]

I don't like scraping frost off the truck windows in the morning

I hear ya!! Sick of the windows frozen shut every morning, battery hovering around dead and either frost, snow or both covering the truck. I've had enough as well!

 

[Gpuller]

I usually don't get to drive until May. I live on a mile of gravel roads and we get some serious frost boils. I'd have to crank up the torsion bars for that 60's gasser stance to leave my yard. Otherwise the K-member would act as a road grader/leveler.
This year the frost is so deep roads might not be in good enough shape until June or July.

 

[396 Signet]

It rained a couple of inches here last week (what a surprise in NW Washington huh?) and washed the salt brine off the highway so I'm good to go. If there's a hint of frost or ice around here they spray down the highways with this salt brine mix that I call pickle juice. The state must have a couple million gallons of that crap stored somewhere because they love to hose down the roads with it. It's like driving your car off into the ocean when you are driving through that crap. It's no wonder there are so many rust buckets driving around here.

When did they start using that crap? Lived in Seattle many years ago & was pleasantly surprised by their lack of using road salt & many older cars to be seen. Too bad. I'm with Mr B, late April at best in Pittsburgh.

 

[Richard Cranium]

We are getting about an inch of snow today & it'll be 50 on Saturday. The thing that sucks is that just when all the salt was washed off the roads, we get more snow & the roads are now salted again.

 

[moparcanuck]

I usually have the GTX out by now. This year, I'm really pissed!!!! Got another 6 inches last night - snow that is. Still have 4-5 feet on my front lawn.

 

[Budnicks]

My car doesn't & won't come out of the garage no matter what time of year, unless it's a clear or no real chance of rain or wet {let alone salty icy roads}, she's a coddled B_I_T_C_H... to me I have something else I can drive & it's not worth it to chance wrecking or someone else wrecking my car, my baby/pride & joy {to me anyway}, that I have spent all my extra time & $$$ on, she's a Garage Queen maybe...LOL... but we have 300+ days a year here that are easily B_I_T_C_H driver days...