In places that salt the roads in winter, are all cars doomed to rust out at 10?15?20? years old. I come from a place where rust in cars stopped being an issue in the 1990s. So seeing pics of modern cars rusting to pieces blows my mind.

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In places that salt the roads in winter, are all cars doomed to rust out at 10?15?20? years old. I come from a place where rust in cars stopped being an issue in the 1990s. So seeing pics of modern cars rusting to pieces blows my mind.

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Looks like OP is from Aussie (is your username a reference to Nissan’s 2.8L inline 6 diesel?), but over here in New Zealand, we also don’t salt roads, cars from the 90s (30 years old) are plenty, and I have a 2001 Nissan Skyline that’s obs 22 years old, which has had a small amount of rust removed from an exhaust mount, 210,000km, was my daily until last year etc.

Then you watch car YouTubers in the UK that are all ‘this 5 year old Audi only has minor structural rust, what a great find’ and I’m all ???!!!?!!?!?!!!

I’ve had one car that was doomed from rust, it was a 1986 Nissan Laurel, in 2006.