Mag Chloride is real filmy too. When you get splash-back on your windshield it is really tough to clear. Also when it mixes with snow it is slicker than frog guts on Teflon.

Edit: Thanks Heather - yes my cut & paste skills are very impressive.
As for New York, were they using refuted mob bosses ground-up real fine and sprinkled ever so respectfully on the ice? I like the way New York City doesn't plow the snow, they melt it with these street cleaner looking trucks that heat the street and melt the snow.

 

Has anyone heard of the stuff I read about a year or two ago, where they use some leftover byproduct of beer brewing to mix in with the sand/salt road mix and it works better than anything else? I'd love to be able to say we have roads paved with beer.

My other tip is, if you do have a coinop wash, each time you pass by just pull in. In the winter the hoses are turned on a little all the time to keep the water flowing so it doesn't freeze. Pulling the trigger you'll get a bit more of a stream. Enough to rinse most of the junk off your car, for free without putting any tokens in. It is enough to get the bad stuff off your paint and hold you over a few months till you can give it a real wash.

 

A water rustler? I think they still hang you kind of people around hear!

 

You're not stealing anything, they just recycle the water

 

In the grander scheme of life - it all get's recycled (except for that which goes into space and never returns).

 

This was an interesting thread that came up in my search for "mag chloride" but I'm wondering if anyone has found an effective technique for dealing with the mag chloride when it's dried onto the car. My car was covered in the stuff and I was on a business trip and couldn't find a car wash and the stuff dried on. A day later when I got home, I attempted power wash, warm rinse, etc., and this stuff appears to have etched the paint. I'm beginning to work on it with polishing compound and a buffer but I'm wondering if there isn't a chemical way to neutralize this that I should have attempted first?