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Pics of my Crosstrek
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The salt flats have varying degrees of salt cover. There is a hard salt crust that covers over a sandy / gritty substrate. The salt flats are vanishing at about 1% a year and there are many places where the entire surface is just that sand / grit. Those are where you see the tire marks. You will see some sprinkling of white sand throughout, but it's hardly uniform.
Drive further out and there are sections where the salt crust is thick. Here you won't see tire tracks because the sand is actually hard enough to not cave under the weight of the tires.
The wavy patterns that you see in this section are areas where the salt layer has expanded and opened up, seen here:
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You immediately go to the nearest car wash in Wendover and manually wash out the underside of your car, getting yourself wet and dirty in the process as you lay down on the ground to see underneath the car. In my case it was winter so the ground was actually a half foot thick slab of solid ice and frozen car cleaner chemicals at the car wash due to their leaky hose.
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Thanks. Samsung GS4 in HDR mode mounted to the tip of a tripod which I held up in the air like a pole.
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What are you talking about...Subaru's don't rust!
I have a recall notice that says otherwise
Nice pics FBB. Did you do any "fun" maneuvers? I burned through a whole tank of gas doing donuts and speed runs around Black Rock Desert the few times I went there. Never did make it to Bonneville, but it is on my list.
Technically the salt needs water to break down into it's metal and chloride ions to speed corrosion, but yeah, the salt definitely helps a lot more than water alone. I think Bonneville is mainly sodium chloride, with some magnesium and potassium chlorides sprinkled in.
Technically the salt needs water to break down into it's metal and chloride ions to speed corrosion, but yeah, the salt definitely helps a lot more than water alone. I think Bonneville is mainly sodium chloride, with some magnesium and potassium chlorides sprinkled in.
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Haha, no manuevors. For one, my car is loaded for bear. It's my traveling home so its not going to be fast nor do I want to risk it.
Also, there was no one there. No support anywhere close so if something did happen it would be bad, or at the very least a long wait.
Also, I'm not familiar with the flats or the terrain characteristics or the local weather. At night I approached small pools of water about twice the length of my car on the flats and even though I have an AWD car I'm not going to risk going through unknown bodies of water, no matter how innocuous looking, unless I know the hardness of the substrate underneath the water. On something like a desert salt flat I imagined it could be sandy and goopy and perfect territory for getting stuck.
http://saltflats.com/stuck.htm
Last thing I want is to accidentally go really fast headlong into a pit of this salty, corrosive goop.
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