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Guest Pearman

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Hi,

I have been told that during winter months, salt is used to breakdown ice on japan’s roads. I’m also told that this leads to higher levels of rust in jap cars.

Questions,

What do you guys think? Found much rust in your cars?

If so, where are the problem areas / common places to checkout?

I also here that AM body kits are sometimes used to hide rust, etc

Any comments…

Thanks

Pearman

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red17 Experienced

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It doesnt snow that much in Japan. The mainland and the south in particular (where the most people live) is more prone to temperate/sub tropical climate which has typhoons and torrential rain in winter, humid wet summers.

Sapporo however is usually covered in snow during winter, but thats about 1.7 million people out of 126 million. Not that many cars really :P

I dare say the problem exsists, but its probably fairly uncommon. If your worried, id check things like chassis rails and subframe parts.

Red17

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Yeah just have a good look under the the car... ie subframe etc...

I checked out mine before i bought it and was really impressed with the condition of the car in terms of rust, mainly because i found absolutely none... japan would be alot less harsh in terms of rust than us here on the east coast of australia i think?

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Originally posted by red17

It doesnt snow that much in Japan. The mainland and the south in particular (where the most people live) is more prone to temperate/sub tropical climate which has typhoons and torrential rain in winter, humid wet summers.  

Sapporo however is usually covered in snow during winter, but thats about 1.7 million people out of 126 million. Not that many cars really :)

It sounds like you know alot about Japan, but I'm confused. Have you ever been to Japan?

I just came back from two weeks in Japan where I was based in Tokyo and backpacked around north and south of the main island. I caught the Shinkansen to Hiroshima, Kyoto and Nagano.

It was snowing all the way to Hiroshima (Kyoto is on the way), it snowed in Nagano (obviously), and even snowed in Tokyo the day after I left.

From my brief experience and most importantly talking to people who live there and/or have family there, it seems that Japan sees a LOT of snow in their winter.

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Merli Grand Master

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Originally posted by red17

Ok maybe im wrong then, damn university education lets me down again. These authors of text books should really stop publishing lies  

Red17

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hehe...

Makes sense, my degree was full of outdated procedures and programming languages... Silly University :)

In any case, as I said, I was only there for two weeks, so I'm hardly an authority on Japan, but the impression that I got was that they get their fair share of the white stuff ;)

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