So winter hit red deer a bit hard, and abit late. How long do i have that the unfied rust becomes gapping whole, i belive its passing the surface rust stage. I can get pics if u guys like

 

I've yet to see a Jag rusting in NY. MAYBE an older one, but I've never seen a 2000's jag rusting. It's too late at that point, better care should have been taken to prevent it in the first place.

I'd get rust-killing primer, and do the bottom of the car and suspension and differentials. Then I'd get rubber undercoating and go over top of that. Make sure the bottom of the car is spotless before all this. Then go to a rusterminator authorized dealer and have one of those installed.

 

Doesn't anyone oil spray the car anymore????

 

eh oil works. But it looks shoddy and you have to keep re applying it. And its messy

 

Well, i live in canda and they salt the roads pretty bad, and when i got the car it had new mud guards on it which caused thepaint to scratch, by the wheels and rust to set it, that the only rus ton my car, other then that everything else is fine

 

Oh wow I see what happened. Well that is NOT a good situation. What color is your car? You can buy this black rust inhibitor, it comes with a pad, almost a scouring bad, to put the liquid on. I think rustoleum makes it. It makes a black surface thats rock hard on top of the rust thats there, and it wont let the rust get any worse. Grab some sand paper and gently smooth the bubbles/rough surface out, and put this rustoleum rust stopper on top

Perhaps try this out:
http://paint-and-supplies.hardwarest...ay-143875.aspx

Its not what I used, but it seems to have the same premise. The stuff I used was in a white bottle with I believe a red cap, and it came with the scouring/application pad on the side of the bottle.

 

yeah mine, according to the jaguar dealer, has a rare antracite color, which is actaully black, i don't really see a difference. Can i pick up the stuff just from any good car parts store??? Never heard of it before

 

When I bought mine back in the day, it was just a local Ace Hardware store.. try a hardware store or an Advanced Auto or O'Reillys or Nappa. I'm sure one of those guys would carry it.it might blend in fairly well as long as the rust is smoothed out.

 

yeah, we can only hope, what the products name, and what is it called, without a brand name??

 

Oil can resist corrosion, but it will deteriorate the factory undercoating, also void the corrosion warranty.

As much as an oil cover piece of metal will rust more slowly, an oily part, covered with dirt, and then wet with salty water... will rust faster.
If you oil spray, you need to do it often, and remove the dirty that sticks to it often.

Imagine the poor piece of metal that would otherwise be salty for a day, with oily dirt it might be salty all summer long!

The very best protection is an impermeable layer of protection, (powder coat primer) against the metal, and then paint and a good rubberised coating to protect from abraision.
most of all the best protection is KEEP IT CLEAN>>> spotlessly clean under the car and under the motor hood. every little bit of dirt will make the car rust faster.

I have done many many salt spray tests for the automotive industry. Rust is one of the most horrible bits of subjective decision making by car owners... maybe tied for unscientific thinking with when to change your motor oil!!!!

 

Theres also a nother way to prevent rust, by running a current through it, it stops the rust dead and actaully witht he right compents you can reverse some of it. But your looking at 300+ for these units.

 

My dad sells rusterminator and swears by it, and so do I. Hell the navy uses an electrical system thsts similar but much larger. Make sure an authorized desler installs it though

 

electric things need three things to work, an annode, a cathode, and an electrolyte.
you need to put just the exact voltage on the system to counteract the gavlanic activity.

The cathode and annode need to be in the electrolyte.
IN a ship there may be some validity to this, as the ocean is a good electrolyte.

On a car.... you need salty water that is continuously connected to make a circuit between two parts that are at a different electric potential. Basically this is impossible to re-create predictibly. and only works during the time that the car is FULLY salty and wet.

I dont see the technical merit.. I wish it worked, but science says otherwise.

 

Interesting points. I'm going to call up my dad who's an electrician and get his take on what you said. He's very interested in the science behind these devices

 

I'm with Jimmy. If those thigs worked they would have been on cars years ago or at least offered as an option. Short of doing the doing what Jimmy suggests make sure you get the underbody sprayed at the car wash in winter. Am very familiar with snow and salt where I live and cringe every time in winter when I see that white coating all over my car after it snows, but that's life in the upper midwest (first salting was done just the other night!). Actually earlier in the summer when my car was up on the rack for an oil change I took a good look at the bottom. Was actually pretty surprised to see how good it looked under there.

 

well, actauly the idea that they put them on cars is very recent, pipeline companys have been using them for years, y running a electric, negative currretn through tht pipes to prevent corroison and envirment damgae, the cathode/ anadoe and electrolyte , i think, is something abit diffrerent. You have to be able to runn a negative current though the metal, in order to prevent the electrons from oxidizing and cuaing rust. I woul write up teh red-ox equations but im sure we all don't want a repeat of high school chemistry.lol

 

All of the quick fix ideas are all on the wrong track. The so called Rustoleum is only good for lawn chairs that can be cheaply replaced after the rust apart. I am a retired Dept of the Navy Corrosion Control Specialist, dealer and rep. for Cortec, the largest Corrosion prevention Company on the planet. I can supply you with rust remover, rust coating, rust killer, emitter pads, degreaser that leaves a protective coating and additives to add to the radiator, gas tank and oil to prevent corrosion anyplace they go. All of this is guaranteed and most of it can be painted over.
Powder caoting is not a rust barrier, I have seen powder coated aluminum housings rust away and leave the coating sitting on the ground in a pile of alum. oxide. Email me and I will send information. dspiper@comcast.net D.Shearer