Axle falling off R-Pod, 2nd try

Having lived in both, I consider the OBX to be worse than the northeast. It’s much warmer when it’s salty, and heat greatly accelerates chemical reactions, including corrosion. Rule of thumb is double the reaction rate for every 10 degrees C. A summer hurricane vs a winter snow event are about 20-30 deg C different in temperature, so that’s about 4-8x faster corrosion.

Just one storm surge event will destroy a vehicle. We call them tide trucks out here 😜. We keep em for driving on the beach, which we won’t do with our good vehicles. We chuckle at all the tourists who drive their brand new $60k 4wd pickups on the beach. Some of these idiots even drive through the surf on purpose.

Towing operators make good coin on the OBX in summer and its almost always some clown with a brand new 4wd truck. 4wd just gets these guys further from help before they get themselves well and truly stuck.  You have to pay for a beach driving permit now to access the national seashore so they get to pay 3x, once for the permit, once for the towing, and once for the corrosion and vehicle damage. All so they can say they actually used their 4wd one time. Me, I just park and walk over and I get to pick an area where they exclude driving so I'm not having these clowns drive 2 feet from me disturbing my beach nap time.