Ok so winter is here and i'm starting too see a lot of people parking up their Evo or talking about it so my question why park it up? Now i'm not completely clueless about it because I know you may not want her too get all rusted up & such but i'm about too get one hopefully before winter is over so I can have a little but still...why?

 

Salt, my friend, salt.

 

rhetorical questions don't belong in a forum

 

your answer is in your question.^^ some of us love our cars and take car of them.

 

Don't get me wrong i LOVE Evos and wouldn't want any damage done too them but i mean i'd rather have fun now then pay for it later because its worth it, *also i mean stock Evos with no type of body work or rim changes*

 

SALT KILLS!!! Other drivers as well. I dont want to get slammed into cause some douche cant drive in the snow.

 

wow...never thought about that..... now i'm starting too think twice...

 

This also^

 

Salt is very bad.

But then again, after every snow storm. I rinse down my undercarriage. Mine still looks good with minimal surface rust.

My buddy has a 40K evo and his is rusted worse than mine. Plus he parks it outside.

You just gotta take care of the thing.

 

I lived in Vermont for decades, having a performance AWD like an EVO is a winter driver's dream come true. If you're worried about salt, then either take it into a car wash once a month or pick up a heated pressure washer to rinse it off occasionally. Much worse are highway crews dropping shovels of hot asphalt on the road as a patch during the middle of the summer -- do they bother to pack it down? NO, they let drivers do the work for them.

 

Agreed, when I do get it out every once in awhile for some fun in the snow, it goes to the car wash and gets a warm rinse down before it goes back into the garage lol.

 

Where I live, the action you describe can only be called a joke. Really. It's almost insulting to see. There's so much salt on the ground with so many freeze/thaw cycles that calling the methodology futile is a hell of a compliment. I mean, you don't see a lot of folks from the salt belt advising drivers in Arizona, right?

How is that worse? We're talking about intensive corrosion vs tar. Let's not get silly.

To respond to the OP's question, in my case, I bought the car to keep. Driving it in salt and expecting it to last for years is a nice dream to have. I've been driving in this environment for 30+ years, and I've heard every fairly tale in the book. Nothing works against salt like not exposing the car to it in the first place. This being said, if I were buying a 8 year old used Evo with 5 previous owners and list of mods a mile long, I'd surely drive it in the winter. Though we all drive Evos, we all don't drive the same Evos.

 

Salt and other drivers playing bumper cars. As fun as it is I wouldnt play with my evo

 

Yes, and because I live in an area that get snow and I drive in it, I do not take care of my car. Great logic!

 

I love my car, and take care of it. But, I'm not about to be one of those guys who dumps tons of money into a car to be a garage queen. 500+ whp Evo in the snow is fun, my big cam trans am in the snow was fun most of the time as well as my 400+rwhp 300zx TT and Camaro Z28. Salt isn't an issue if you wash it off every now and then. I grew up in Indiana and have never had a rust problem on my cars which has been a grand total of 13 of them.