Ny road salt attacks..

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One thing about Western NY winter's... Cars Rust like crazy around here...

I've been keeping any eye on my aveo and it appears to be nicely resistant to 6 month road salt bath every year. There was one spot on my rocker panel that had bubbled up, but that was due to a chip in the paint that went unnoticed.

Well also going unnoticed is a little spot I found under the hood..

And thats because I don't have to open the hood that much, on my trusty little Aveo.

Haha tRusty... lol.. j/k it's far from that.

Anyhow... I have noticed this rather bad spot, right at the top of the pass side strut tower. I can see how if this went totally unnoticed and the strut mount rusted away, the car might be totally junk. Even though the rest is totally fine and like new. I can see this happening after about 8 to 10 NY winters.
By then the running gear will be aging anyways, and probably time to upgrade to a new decades cars.
I caught it and am going to wire brush and rustproof the area.

I guess this post is just a heads up to any other rustbelters out there, where the use of road salt is heavy.

I'll try to get a pic. It's not a giant area, but its big enough to be a concern. It's a curved shape about an inch and a half long. I peeled an area of good metal back about the size of a nickel. underneath is some bad metal.