HOW TO: Prevent your car (or truck) from rusting - Page 2

**TJ-MX6** · 7-22-06, 23:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Messiah

why not just hang a piece of nickle on the bottom of your car so that electrons will come and eat the nickel be4 ur car like a boat

WTF... I never heard of that...! - But it wouldnt surprise me 1 iota...!!
Great if it works....

**schwinn** · 7-23-06, 9:53

That would only work if the car were always submerged in sea water. The process of using nickle (Are you sure it's not zinc? Similar efforts are used in electric water heaters. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater_corrosion) is to prevent galvanic corrosion. Galvanic corrosion requires that the metals are in contact with each other, or are electrically in contact via a fluid (ie, seawater/salt water). The zinc is used to be a sacrificial anode (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrificial_zinc), so that it corrodes instead of the boat-metals.

Unless your car is sumberged in salt water, this won't work.

**Graham_A_M** · 7-23-06, 16:44

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Originally Posted by silvermanor

aweomse thanks for the reply, i have a can of rust check, will that work? its a primer, and do i really have to get the trim taken off i can peel the one i have back a bit now

of course you can, but it wont do a thing towards stopping the rust. The rust has to be sealed off so NOTHING can get to it, peeling back the trim won't stop that. Its like the (automotive) equivelent to "avoiding the threat of terrorism... by not listening to the news"
It'll still be a problem, regardless if you ignore it or not. Best to solve it properly; by removing the trim.

**Ray403** · 7-28-06, 19:03

If you live in Canada you can order Por 15 from here: www.canada-por15.com
looks like they have many other useful products as well. I wish I would of found this site earlier, because they have this kit for patching up holes, a bit like fiberglass.

Murphy · 7-31-06, 14:33

I've been doing this for years, works like a charm.

!)drill rocker panels and doors. (buy black plactic caps from rust-check)
2)buy a pesticide pump-sprayer
3) use chain-saw bar oil cut with a bit of paint thinner.
4) spray inside doors (make sure the vapour seal is intact) and rockers until oil runs out of the drip holes.
5) coat the underside of the car, inside the trunk, under wheel-wells, basicaly any exposed metal.
6) let it drip, or if you really want the oil to stick for the winter take a run down a dusty gravel road. The dust coats the oil underneath and holds it on.

Same concept as a yearly Crown Rust-check, but with a cost of about 15-20$ for oil and thinner. If you do it in warm weather you might not need the thinner, or you can put the sprayer in a bucket of hot water while you're spraying to thin the oil.

7-23-06, 9:53	#17 (permalink)
schwinn Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: , MA, USA iTrader: (0)	That would only work if the car were always submerged in sea water. The process of using nickle (Are you sure it's not zinc? Similar efforts are used in electric water heaters. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater_corrosion) is to prevent galvanic corrosion. Galvanic corrosion requires that the metals are in contact with each other, or are electrically in contact via a fluid (ie, seawater/salt water). The zinc is used to be a sacrificial anode (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrificial_zinc), so that it corrodes instead of the boat-metals. Unless your car is sumberged in salt water, this won't work.
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7-28-06, 19:03	#19 (permalink)
Ray403 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Red Deer, AB, Canada Age: 19 iTrader: (0)	If you live in Canada you can order Por 15 from here: www.canada-por15.com looks like they have many other useful products as well. I wish I would of found this site earlier, because they have this kit for patching up holes, a bit like fiberglass.
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7-31-06, 14:33	#20 (permalink)
Murphy Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Winterpeg, Canada iTrader: (0)	I've been doing this for years, works like a charm. !)drill rocker panels and doors. (buy black plactic caps from rust-check) 2)buy a pesticide pump-sprayer 3) use chain-saw bar oil cut with a bit of paint thinner. 4) spray inside doors (make sure the vapour seal is intact) and rockers until oil runs out of the drip holes. 5) coat the underside of the car, inside the trunk, under wheel-wells, basicaly any exposed metal. 6) let it drip, or if you really want the oil to stick for the winter take a run down a dusty gravel road. The dust coats the oil underneath and holds it on. Same concept as a yearly Crown Rust-check, but with a cost of about 15-20$ for oil and thinner. If you do it in warm weather you might not need the thinner, or you can put the sprayer in a bucket of hot water while you're spraying to thin the oil.