Crawling Salt !

[MARKSC4]

I park the daily driver in a two-car garage next to the vette which is hibernating. The problem is, during the winter months in Ohio, the roads are salted to the max. The wet salt drips onto the floor and seems to grow crystals when it dries which creep across the floor and into the vette's bedroom.
I know you folks who aren't in the salt-belt probably think I'm hallucinating, but maybe some of my neighbors can identify with this.

Anyone have any suggestions? Any way to barracade maybe?

Don't say move south, the wife won't go. (hmmm, maybe I should think about moving south!).

 

[Ripp 73]

I know how you feel Mark. I am not sure there is an absolute way to avoid the moister all together. However, I would think putting some blankets, towels or cardboard boxes on the ground around the Vette would help to absorb some of that. Some might say use a car cover, but IMHO that could trap the moister inside even longer. Hopefully someone has a better idea.

 

[74bigblock]

Don't park your everyday car in the garage. It's the wind that moves the salt around. If you don't open the door, it doesn't blow around... then again... if you don't park your beater in the garage, there's no salt to blow around!

 

[wishuwerehere82]

The crawling salt. I have the durn stuff growing out of my cinder blocks inside the basement walls. They crumble if you touch them, so I don't touch them. I have not parked a salty car in the agare since I have owned the house(12 years).

The best way to avoid it is to keep the salty car outside. It will rot the car out faster inside the warm garage besides getting it all over the floor. The best way to keep it away from the Vette is to absorb it with some towel wads in the flow zone.

 

[StingrayL76]

Same problem here in Michigan, so I put the '65 in a Car Jacket and it comes out in the spring just the way I stored it in the fall.

 

[Vettefan87]

Yeah the snow overall sucks, and everything it brings with it. I like winter for about a week, the snow is sort of fun to mess around in with my brothers 4Runner, but after that I can't stand not driving my vette.

 

[LittleRedFlatBack]

Crawing Salt

I park the daily driver in a two-car garage next to the vette which is hibernating. The problem is, during the winter months in Ohio, the roads are salted to the max. The wet salt drips onto the floor and seems to grow crystals when it dries which creep across the floor and into the vette's bedroom.
I know you folks who aren't in the salt-belt probably think I'm hallucinating, but maybe some of my neighbors can identify with this.

Anyone have any suggestions? Any way to barracade maybe?

Don't say move south, the wife won't go. (hmmm, maybe I should think about moving south!).

First of all, you're correct in that most Southerner's don't understand the problem of dealing with the salt in wintertime because we don't have to deal with it, but I have an idea for you. I know this seems backwards, but how about parking the daily driver on an old piece of carpet. It seems like when the ice/snow/salt melts off the daily driver and hits the garage floor it wouldn't blow around so easily or travel across the garage via a water trail. Just a thought. Good luck.

 

[JRMaroon]

First of all, you're correct in that most Southerner's don't understand the problem of dealing with the salt in wintertime because we don't have to deal with it...

That is very true. Yesterday there was ice on a sidewalk in my condo property. The slippery patch was marked by the yellow sign you would see on a recently mopped surface. No salt, no chipping of the small patch, but a sign. I love it down here

Sorry for the hijack, I thought this was funny.

Jeff

 

[BTDOG]

You might try a large bag of kitty litter or oil absorbant. Just run a long mound of it the length of the car. You could isolate(no pun intented) it by using a couple of twos by four by tens about three or four inches apart and fill in between them.

Good luck,

Mike

 

[wishuwerehere82]

Kitty litter turns to mud when it gets wet. It's more of a mess than the salt is, IMHO. Towels can be rinsed, wrung out and replaced when they get saturated. 3M makes spill control pillows that are kitty litter in long cloth bags for easy disposal.