WHITBY FREE PRESS PAGE 8, WEDNESDAY SEflEMBER 24,1980, NEW CAR SUPPLEMENT WiuNT DRUVWG 1 What Sait Dioes To A Car- And How To Prevent It eWbter la Ice, snowdlfts, bilzswd and corrsie rmod seltz - a chalueme to car owuer and drive. As oa aid to driversFord of Canada has produced a report -on WWyS golasse" wfnter drIvbq sgrain, reduceawon the ce ,Improve the s4fety factor, and save driers som e Mone>' too. Infor- mation and drflvllg gudelines are based on tests of drivers aid ces operutlng under wlnter condition ,carrld out by safe- s>' couclls and others and on data produced by safety coun- cils, automobile associations, Insumnce com punies and va- rima provincil anspmortation deparments. Sat, sprcad en a roadway, helpa cle. ceand snow when the temperature docsn't faUi toc low. It docs something ehu. Sait and moisture comb- ine ta forni brie, and the. brine attacks anY Mutai wiiether its parfthef Uic lhways struct- unr, bridge or vehicle. Tii. resuIt, sfter time, is rust. A study for the U.S. Environ- mental Protection Agency put the total economic coot ta the. communlty cf sbit-1n.duccd cor- rosion osalnOat 15 Urnes the. coit of buylns and ap readint the sait. More than two million tous of sait arm spread every ysr on Canadian roadsanmd streets according to the Roads sj»d Transportation Associtioa of-Canada. That amount keepa irqcreasing. Ontario aud Quibec use a large portion cf tiiat total. For instance, the. RTAC estiniates the. city cf Montreal averages 100,000 tons a year - as much as the amount used in al cf Western Canada. Aside from 1the sait -spread to clear ice and snow, there is a sericus effect in coastal areas froin sea sait. Rust sets int metal most quickly in warmn and huniid conditions; brin. is most darnaging in weak solù- tiens. Passing vehicles splash sait brin. against car- windows; the brine seeps down iute door wells where some cf it can be Itrapped to sîart corrosive act- lion. Sait brin. combines with ,dirt on paved roads, and bc- ;cornes packcd imb hiddcn &réas cf a car. DirI sud atone tiirown up by tumniug wheels can .chip away prolective ceat- ings, leaving the. bar. metal exposed. WASH CAR One cf the beat, and cheap- est, methoda of combating sait is washing. Give your car fre- quent wintertime washing - cf ail extcrior surfaces, including those underside areas that can be reached - in order te help prevent a buildup cf corrosive salIs. Every three snonths poUsh your car with a goed wax r.- cemmeuded by the manufactu- rer, te protect the paint and bright mets] surfaces. At the. same time, make a check cf the drain Ioles in door panels te ensure they are net plugged. Thc spring washdown wlth large quantities of dlean water hs parficularly important ta avoid the posslbility that, watered-down brine solution wiil stay at work through the. mild, warmer weath.r, especil. ly on humid days. Parking in an open-air ot, driveway or unheated garage is preferable ta lcaving your car in a hcated garage, since warmer temperature, in combi- nation with brin., speds up the corrosive process. 1RuaI in cars caused by sait has attracîcd the. inercat and concem f government, con- sumer groupa and motoriats as the. use cf sait in Eastern Canada has increased. One manufacturer, Ford cf Canada, introduced the. Dura. guard Anti-Corrosion Syst.m on ail its 1977-model *ri sold in Canada. The multi- million dollar engineering snd manufacîuring proces isback' cd by the. 3-year Duraguard Corrosion Perforation Warran- ty. Among the.higblights; cf the system are a thrce-fold increase in th. us. cf special mit r- sistant precoated steel, a vinyl protective coating. under the. paint on, the lower body aide te prevent chipping from toncs thrown up by tiie wheels and -redesign cf certain areas which might trap mud or brin. The Duraguard System aud Warranty' is net only unique in Canada, but Ford is the-only manufacturer te have intro- duced it in this country. ~t.. s o TIIERE ARE IPCJGLY 19 MILLION IRIJCKI BING LJSE IN -M4E O.S. MANY SPMCAL KINOS ARE MADE BY OVR 6M0 COMPAUIIES IN AMERCA. ONE£CCOMPANY OFFEP.S àqO DEsiG4s 0F TRUCKS. lTE LARGESr TRUCKING COMPAI« OIS C>WSLI VAED FREGI.TWAYS, OASED AT MENlLO PARK, CAL% F. IT R4AS MORE 114ANO 4,000 PÎECES, OF EQIPAAENT. Y3 OF ALL I-OE FARMS IN TN-E U.S. HAVE TRUCKS. TRUCKS HAVE SERVE() THEf 25,000 OWNMMES ON AMAEPJCA li-AT HAVE No RAJLRCAD NoR WATERWAY ACCESS. IN 1904,ONLY ,ABOUT 700 11iUCKS WERE IN USE IN U.S. BY 1918, AROUND 250,000- WERE IN OPERATION. Ex-BaU LPL4YR ~ BECAM(AN S410 7V tuêr pRE4acJJ 0 700a MIgI0VANO 7IV MYE vWUXW. w