Chlor Mag

[yknot123]

In the process of removing front passenger seat to fix rear heater unit, it lead to some serious cleaning. Was paid about 3$ in loose change and 6 hours of work. Cleaned the seats all around.
This lead me too the rear slider windows that had not close on passenger side for awhile. Had tried to clean this many times before but still did not close all the way.
Upon further exploration the weather stripping was not working right. After peeling the various ribs back white powder started to appear. Working with various tools including popsicle wooden stick, the white powder was slowly coming loose. After much gentle scraping with wood popsicle stick the inner molding was loose. Able then to pull the inner molding towards front and found that the back side was covered in the white hard powder. Below the inner molding the main weatherstrip molding was also caked in white powder. This white caked on stuff was built up until the latch point in the rear. Lots of gentle scraping and then soaking was able to remove this built up mess. The Chlor Mag had eaten away the track sections on the back slider and sections came off when cleaning.
The next day worked on finishing cleaning passenger side and then worked on driver side. The same issue had occured.
The drain holes were blocked and the track was deterioated on back slider.
Lesson learned. Chlor Mag is bad for our enviroment and also for vehicles. These rear sliders catch the wind and grit from roadways here in Colorado. The area mentioned needs attention to be cleaned.
Owners of 80's may want to check this if your drive in snow country.

 

[cbmontgo]

I hate mag chloride. Wish they’d quit putting that crap on the roads.

 

[Cruzilla]

This is why I dont drive my Cruisers in the winter.. MagChloride is some serious s***e!!

 

[Heckraiser]

After my paint job last summer, I am seeing new rust blooming (and evidence of some serious corner cutting by the body shop). Time to get some snow tires for the DD and keep the clunker indoors over the winter

 

[yknot123]

After my paint job last summer, I am seeing new rust blooming (and evidence of some serious corner cutting by the body shop). Time to get some snow tires for the DD and keep the clunker indoors over the winter

It seems Colorado Cruisers notice this problem with Mag Chloride. We too have some rust cancer occuring in spots.
Cruisers are meant for the snow and many other things including four wheeling. Our running boards rusted out pretty quick. Replaced them few years back with others by another 80 owner who took them off.
Mudflaps and running boards really do help with the Mag Chloride getting into under carriage plus wheel wells.

 

[yknot123]

This is why I dont drive my Cruisers in the winter.. MagChloride is some serious s***e!!

Have tried to talk to CDOT about this challenge. It seems the Truckers have a pretty strong lobby. Not everybody follows the law regarding snow tires, AWD,4WD during snowstorms. Mag Chloride adds to this and is deceptive in storms. Hard to tell if icy or wet.

 

[Workhorse]

God bless government. They seem to know everything, don't they? Ruins every car and truck on the road and is way less effective than salt/sand mix. Somebody somewhere is making a lot of money on this cancer (rust) causing crap. The other thing to consider is the environmental impact (I'm not a greenie) of mag chloride is and that it is drains into ground water. It is perfectly OK for the government to put this stuff into our water systems but if we citizens did it we would be in the penitentiary and labeled land rapists. How ironic and double standard-ish.

 

[leonard_nemoy]

God bless government. They seem to know everything, don't they? Ruins every car and truck on the road and is way less effective than salt/sand mix. Somebody somewhere is making a lot of money on this cancer causing crap. The other thing to consider is the environmental impact (I'm not a greenie) of mag chloride is and that it is drains into ground water. It is perfectly OK for the government to put this stuff into our water systems but if we citizens did it we would be in the penitentiary and labeled land rapists. How ironic and double standard-ish.

It's bad enough they are letting mag chlor into the water and environment but what about all the sodium chloride and potassium chloride in the water and environment...... wait a minute sodium chloride is table salt and completely harmless while potassium chloride is used as an alternative to table salt for individuals with high sodium levels. Ever go swimming in the ocean and get sea water in your mouth, if you have than you ingested magnesium chloride. As far as ions in the ocean are concerned magnesium accounts for 3.6%, sodium is 30.6% and chloride is 55%. So all in all mag chloride is a very common salt that is actually considered essential for our health. But if you are in california be careful because than it will destroy the environment and make everyone sick.