I am brand new to this forum, so I will be having a lot of questions on country life. For 32 years, I have lived in large towns - with all the traffic, shops, and everything else that goes along with it. Now, I live in a rural area which is at least 30 min. from those places. So, there are things that I don't understand.
This is just a curiosity. Every so often, I see signs along the road that says "fresh oil". What does this mean, and why is there fresh oil? Recently, a road was tarred, which made it pretty nice. But then a few weeks weeks later, they put one of those oil signs up. And then, pebbles were put down. Now the road is rough. Why do they do this?
It's a bandaid type repaving system. Just to keep the roads drivable until they can be properly repaved. A lot of times, a particular road is so busy they may have to do this for a year or more before they can do adequate maintenence.
And unless you drive incredibly slowly through that "fresh oil" you'll have specks of it splattered on your car; more like tar than oil. They can be pretty tough to get off sometimes. I've found that WD-40 works about as well as anything, but maybe someone else knows of something better.
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