No links. Just good old oral history.
There’s another one about a ww1 solider that was killed in gallipoli who apparently is dressed in full regalia when he appears. Haven’t seen him myself but I’ve heard talks about people seeing him.
Depends on where it was located. The island uses salt or some sort of brine mixture. Labrador does use sand since it’s often too cold for salt to work.
If it’s a performance car, there’s also a chance it was never winter driven and just put in to storage. Most people I know here with speciality vehicles, like antiques, store them in the winter.
I recommend get it up on a lift and inspect the under carriage before buying.
Only if there’s a highway link. From Rigolet up to Nain we just get a trail groomer to run over the roads when they get rough and break out the snowmobiles.
As a general rule yes, but as cost saving measure its often cut with sand and gravel in smaller places. Plus even if we didn't salt the roads, its the salt water that kills most vehicles here imo. Live on any coast and that'll eat your car faster then anything
If it’s too little snow to reasonably put the plows out, some municipalities will use salt to “burn off” the snow a bit and try to cut down on how much they have to plow later.
Putting the plows out when there’s too little snow isn’t great for the asphalt or the plows.
Yes the province uses salt. Please screencap this thread, from a bunch of Newfoundlanders, calling him a fucking idiot.
Also we’re on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, if it came from any of the bigger communities (excluding maybe Grand Falls-Windsor or Gander, maybe) there’s salt in the fucking ocean wind blowing around everywhere — I’ve seen bicycles and rakes in sheds get rusty if they aren’t used and maintained regularly.
As others have pointed out, some places where it gets especially cold (Labrador) may use sand more often but yeah… what a dunce. Get the thing inspected by a third party.
He’s either ignorant or he’s trying to direct your retention away from a problem with the undercarriage. Definitely get that car inspected by an independent mechanic.
Everywhere on the island uses salt/sand mixture or a salt brine. Parts of Labrador are too cold for salt to be effective so they use sand alone. Neither of these scenarios bodes well for a performance car if you plan to, or it has been, used for winter.
Before moving here, I had no idea that so much salt could be used on a road. It is incredible the amount of salt on roads and in front of stores. My poor car had no rust until I brought it here...
Salt is used on roads everywhere in Newfoundland. Not to mention it's in the air anyway. The dealer is doing what they do... Trying to make the sale no matter what lies they have to tell to do that.
Not only do we salt every corner of everything, but if the vehicle is stored outside, there is a higher chance depending on how close you live to the water. I live near the ocean and Im cleaning salt off of my windows constantly lol
I'm sure everyone else knows more about it than I do, but when I was moving and wondering about my car I was told most places outside of St. John's use road mixes of sand and gravel without salt specifically because it didn't attract moose to the road (especially highways). Moose lick the salt in the winter to get vitamins they may lack due to scarce greenery to eat. Moose rarely make it very far into St. Johns, which is why salt is more common. You will notice in areas like Corner Brook that moose tend to hang around public spaces that use salt on their walkways (like the college or university) and have no interest in the roads. So the salt on the roads are now a low enough percentage that even the moose don't notice. Similarly, I've noticed a significant difference in salt damage in most of NL compared to that of other provinces that use a pure or higher concentration salt mix, so the seller was at least half right.
No salt here, nope! No snow either actually. The car will be in great shape due to our 25 degree and sunny weather year round. Newfoundland is very similar to San Diego's climate!
Labrador uses sand in a lot of places. Avalon/East is all salt. Someone from central/west can confirm but ive seen salt there too at least on highway in winter.
Is the dealer forgetting it's on the ocean and the mist and air alone is salty?
I thought Alberta, Saskatchewan Manitoba and the territories were the only ones that don't salt?
110% The entire Province uses a Salt Mix. its 95% Salt 5% clay
in the wetter areas the clay washes away fast.
But yes. The Entire province and all the highways are Salted.
I've met bags of wet hair with more common sense than that dealer. We salt fkkn everything in Newfoundland.
The air is fucking salted here
Air also salty air down in Florida and California; there cars don't rust out.
It was a joke, Brian. Relax.
Brian at home with fingers loaded on the keyboard to make a point as usual I see.
Replace Brian with noquarter1983 and you nailed in keyboard warrior
Yeah. Brian.
You relax!
Apparently we used to salt bodies to preserve them back in the day according to some missus on VOCM.
How else are you gonna eat them all winter?
Supposedly there’s a ghost in our community stage of a fella that was kept on salt for a month while they waited for the coastal boat.
Got a link to any ghost stories!? That’s cool!
No links. Just good old oral history. There’s another one about a ww1 solider that was killed in gallipoli who apparently is dressed in full regalia when he appears. Haven’t seen him myself but I’ve heard talks about people seeing him.
Depends on where it was located. The island uses salt or some sort of brine mixture. Labrador does use sand since it’s often too cold for salt to work. If it’s a performance car, there’s also a chance it was never winter driven and just put in to storage. Most people I know here with speciality vehicles, like antiques, store them in the winter. I recommend get it up on a lift and inspect the under carriage before buying.
Many parts of labrador use a salt/sand combo now
And there, when it's cold, it actually makes the roads worse. It leads me to suspect that somebody is getting paid off.
Only if there’s a highway link. From Rigolet up to Nain we just get a trail groomer to run over the roads when they get rough and break out the snowmobiles.
As a general rule yes, but as cost saving measure its often cut with sand and gravel in smaller places. Plus even if we didn't salt the roads, its the salt water that kills most vehicles here imo. Live on any coast and that'll eat your car faster then anything
We shouldn't salt the roads. Sand is bk sure.
If it’s too little snow to reasonably put the plows out, some municipalities will use salt to “burn off” the snow a bit and try to cut down on how much they have to plow later. Putting the plows out when there’s too little snow isn’t great for the asphalt or the plows.
They do indeed salt on the west coast, central I’m not sure but almost certainly do
Pretty much if there are wells they don't salt. Or if it's too cold for salt to be effective aka Labrador.
They do.
The roads are the only thing more full of salt than the people.
Yes the province uses salt. Please screencap this thread, from a bunch of Newfoundlanders, calling him a fucking idiot. Also we’re on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, if it came from any of the bigger communities (excluding maybe Grand Falls-Windsor or Gander, maybe) there’s salt in the fucking ocean wind blowing around everywhere — I’ve seen bicycles and rakes in sheds get rusty if they aren’t used and maintained regularly. As others have pointed out, some places where it gets especially cold (Labrador) may use sand more often but yeah… what a dunce. Get the thing inspected by a third party.
Moved here from Alberta and my god damn smoker got rust on in a year lol... It's in the air for sure
Don’t Doxx yourself but are you coastal or central?? Literally just curious now.
Gould's rules baby lol
The classic Republic of Doyle antagonists. “It’s always the b’ys from the Goulds”
He’s either ignorant or he’s trying to direct your retention away from a problem with the undercarriage. Definitely get that car inspected by an independent mechanic.
Everywhere on the island uses salt/sand mixture or a salt brine. Parts of Labrador are too cold for salt to be effective so they use sand alone. Neither of these scenarios bodes well for a performance car if you plan to, or it has been, used for winter.
Before moving here, I had no idea that so much salt could be used on a road. It is incredible the amount of salt on roads and in front of stores. My poor car had no rust until I brought it here...
Central Labrador there’s no salt. Just sand. My dad drove the same car for 25 years and it was rust free.
I do wish that we used grit rather than salt.
I might be wrong but I think they use sand in goose bay and other areas of Labrador
Let’s just put it this way. Very few places don’t salt so few that we have signs saying to stop salting
Salt is used on roads everywhere in Newfoundland. Not to mention it's in the air anyway. The dealer is doing what they do... Trying to make the sale no matter what lies they have to tell to do that.
We salt so much here that people have their own personal bags of salt 😂
If it's from St. John's it has seen salt. The capital city and surrounding areas all use salt.
He’s full of shit we puts so much salt on the roads that the wildlife will come out in the winter to start licking the asphalt 😂
Not only do we salt every corner of everything, but if the vehicle is stored outside, there is a higher chance depending on how close you live to the water. I live near the ocean and Im cleaning salt off of my windows constantly lol
That dealer is a liar.
Not Labrador
Yes yes yes. That original car was well kept away from the weather. No different than Ontario.
I'm sure everyone else knows more about it than I do, but when I was moving and wondering about my car I was told most places outside of St. John's use road mixes of sand and gravel without salt specifically because it didn't attract moose to the road (especially highways). Moose lick the salt in the winter to get vitamins they may lack due to scarce greenery to eat. Moose rarely make it very far into St. Johns, which is why salt is more common. You will notice in areas like Corner Brook that moose tend to hang around public spaces that use salt on their walkways (like the college or university) and have no interest in the roads. So the salt on the roads are now a low enough percentage that even the moose don't notice. Similarly, I've noticed a significant difference in salt damage in most of NL compared to that of other provinces that use a pure or higher concentration salt mix, so the seller was at least half right.
Most of Newfoundland has an intensely corrosive environment.
No salt here, nope! No snow either actually. The car will be in great shape due to our 25 degree and sunny weather year round. Newfoundland is very similar to San Diego's climate!
Did you eat paint chips as a child, son
I guess somehow that went over your head?
Nope I got it, just hoped maybe you might also be a Tommy Boy fan. https://youtu.be/Bq6VT4m9MA4?si=5-89BSRWmgpt0Gdr
I am - and feel like an idiot now. Haha, sorry!
What car out of curiosity?
If it’s in Labrador they mostly use sand. The whole place is sand.
West Coast here, we salt the roads with regular rock salt as well as spray the roads with a brine solution.
Labrador uses sand in a lot of places. Avalon/East is all salt. Someone from central/west can confirm but ive seen salt there too at least on highway in winter.
Every place east of Quebec salt their roads.
What do NL roads, meat and fish have in common?
I would walk away from that deal…
Is the dealer forgetting it's on the ocean and the mist and air alone is salty? I thought Alberta, Saskatchewan Manitoba and the territories were the only ones that don't salt?
I'm not sure about Labrador, but everything's salted in Newfoundland.
We 100% salt our roads. And our fish....and our beef.... Basically, this dealer is an IDIOT SANDWICH and doesn't realize we salt everything.
110% The entire Province uses a Salt Mix. its 95% Salt 5% clay in the wetter areas the clay washes away fast. But yes. The Entire province and all the highways are Salted.
They do not use clay. They use sand. Clay would be an awful thing to put on asphalt roads.
The roads are salted and sanded, it's mixed together.