Andy,
Actually it is serious. There was a tussle at work about when this and the Stormer should come over from the UK. The pair ended up coming just over a year ago in the winter.
Here is the thread
http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?22024-Santa-delivered-early
As you can see there was snow on the ground, which, ergo, means there was salt on the roads, lots of it. Have you seen the distance from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Kingston, Ontario?
The company contracted for the haulage were supposed to have "sheeted" the loads extensively . . . . . but the 436 got naked part way into the journey and so the driver cut the flapping mess away and so it arrived as a frozen lump. There was an enormous bitch fight but any reductions in charges will never fully offset the cost of the damage
We have extensively washed and rinsed the beast but what has happened is all that nasty salt ladden road spray went into the engine bay once the covering was gone.
Needless to say we knew that gremlins were going to appear. This is just the first. I know the proper thing is to pull the pack, but the time bandit just doesn't allow it.
R