ebonyandivory wrote: No one mentioned the toilet wax rings ground up and dissolved in mineral spirits with a touch of motor oil sprayed on with a garden sprayer yet?
fujioko/El Cheapo/Doc Brown experimented with this idea documented here on GRM. Seems like it holds up pretty well.
In reply to Hal:
I did it myself on my F150. Messy at first but held up.
I've been told to use chain wax for (for chainsaws, not the Key & Peele kind). It's thick and stays put. Didn't Mexico and other semi-third-world countries use old motor oil?
I am wondering why none of the superhydrophobic films have made it into this role?
In reply to NOHOME:
I'm guessing because keeping oxygen molecules away from metal is why the other stuff works.
Maybe the hydrophobic films allow oxygen through? (That doesn't make sense to me now that I wrote it because H2O but I'm no chemist.)
JohnRW1621 wrote: I have added this thread to my watchlist. I have two rust-free southern cars that I shipped north this year. It seems wise to protect them. Not sure how -- have never done.
Don't drive them in the winter. At all.
Southern cars seem to not hold up as well as Northern cars. I am thinking they get ten years of chips and stuff underneath but it never gets attacked, then one winter up here just destroys them.
The Tundra that I fabricated frame rail patches for last week had been coated with a wax stuff on the inside. It was done when the truck was a used truck and not brand new. Basically it just locked in the rust and allowed it to keep rusting.
Same thing happened to my first Subaru, someone undercoated it after it was new, the undercoating peeled off a couple years later and took most of the metal with it.
Anyone wanna join me in my conspiracy about the local and state Highway Depts. being in collusion with the local car dealerships?
Kinda like the junk food companies and dentists and/or endocrinologists helping each other stay in business?
For what it is worth, here is my endorsement of the Krown Rust control stuff. They do put a few vehicle specific holes in your car in order to get it places; due diligence or damage, your call.
The car is power-washed by the guys at Krown after they do the treatment every year, so I will assume this is one years worth of "creep" out the door seam and up the door. I look at it as evidence that the stuff is still there and working. 4 winters so far, 6 to go.
I still maintain that if you give a E36 M3 about a car, you won't drive it in salty winters.
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