Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[lowdrag]

Of all people, Mercedes really screwed up at the turn of the century with the accountants ruling the engineers. That period C and E class cars are now quite a rear sight on the roads. Body rust, collapsed suspensions, they had it all in spades.

rust by Tony Brown, on Flickr

[Ray White]

One of my customers has just bought an MX5. So concerned was he about the potential for rot he has invested in a Dinitrol treatment. He has paid £100 for a kit and employed someone to apply it.

I have used Dinitrol before but not found it to be better or worse than anything else.

[Richard H]

It's easy to apply in cold temperatures though.

My everyday runabout is a Rover 600 (T reg). There is no rot anywhere on it, at 140,000 miles. That's because I keep the arches free from mud and keep the car clean (though not as clean as the classics). Yes the Rover is worthless but it still gets the preventative and essential maintenance it needs.

A work colleague has an 06 Focus which is starting to rot on the inner and outer sills.
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Richard Hughes

[Bitumen Boy]

I find the Bilt-Hamber rustproofing waxes a little easier to apply than the Dinitrol, but either is streets ahead of Waxoyl.

[BigJohn]

[Ray White]

In the dim and distant past I used to spray sump oil to the underside of my Austin A30. It seemed to work as well as anything that came from a shop.

[47Jag]

Ray,

I worked in a multi franchise garage in Toronto in 1964 and the Rolls Royce mechanics did this too when the cars came in for service.

Art

[lowdrag]

[Ray White]

[Bitumen Boy]

[Ray White]

I expect we forget how filthy dirty working garages used to be. Mechanics were looked down on, poorly paid and generally wore boiler suits that were caked in black grease. The world has changed so much. These days we have “technicians” who work in clean garages and are at ease with technology. They would have no truck with spraying sump oil under a car, I don’t suppose.

[alastairq]

I remember spraying hot waxoyl and sump oil into sills...did the job, however, on a very hot summer's day, where ever I parked, there would be two lines of oily drips on the road surface, as the waxoyl melted in hte sun...and ran out of the drain holes.