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Busted bolts!!!

Reply #15 –
Quote from: 88CabernetKitty;415714
Well, unless it's a coastal car that's been run on the beach. That salt and sand combo can sometimes be much worse on a car than northern road salt.
Imagine how bad we have it here - road salt AND sea salt. I've seen frames rusted through on Chevy trucks as new as 2008 (and this was also an issue on 1997-2003 Ford trucks, but they seem to have gotten better since 2004), and rear subframes on Dodge Calibers rotted beyond repair.

Another method I use to remove broken bolts is grind a slot into the broken bolt and turn it out with a screwdriver, but this only works on bolts that broke due to overtightening or from stress (such as Ford and Dodge manifold bolts)
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Busted bolts!!!

Reply #16 –
i guess thats whats kinda neat about living in the rot belt, while it sucks when you run into these situations. sometimes a smoke, a break and having at it can be kinda "fun".