OT: Winter approacheth

[pwl at mindspring.com (Ron Bunch)]

(Please excuse any email format protocol violations as I respond from the cave of Digest lurkers.)

For winter protection, there is a wonderful product available in Germany that I've never seen here and can't understand why. Maybe it is an EPA thing, but I don't know.

The product is spray wax in an aerosol can. Wonderful stuff!

It is commonly found at German dealers and FLAPS, but I've never been able to find it here. 

To use it, I'd give the underside and engine compartments of my autos a good pressure wash, then let them dry a day or two. In the door and other drain holes, I'd spray CRC 5-56 until it dripped out the open doors. Then, spray the wax into crevasses, all over any seams, and exposed metal underneath (except exhaust components, of course), and carefully in the engine compartment to protect exposed nuts, bolts and unpainted metal. (Just a squirt here and there.)

Throughout  the winter, I'd just rinse the underside lightly with cold water spray so as to leave the wax coating intact.

Over time, the wax would collect dust, nits  and dirt and start to look crappy.  So, on a clean dry day: back to the car wash and blow it all off with pressurized hot water and repeat the treatment.

This isn't just about treating one's car as a winter beater.  We have an 82 that we acquired in 2004. It has only seen HI and Hilton Head, SC: no winter salt.  But, the rust and corrosion on that car is as bad as any salt spray winter beater I've ever seen.

If any of you know a source for this protective spray wax, I'll take a case, although I live in Georgia. 
It really works! (Maybe that makes it banned here.)

It should be a standard V.A.G product offering.



Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:23:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neptuno <neptunonc@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Winter approacheth
To: Eric S <scirocco@vintagewatercooleds.com>
Cc: Scirocco email List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
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Yes you are rigth, but some of us dont have other resources. That is way the hose
and some water at high pressure are my friends.

Eric S <scirocco@vintagewatercooleds.com> wrote:
You live in a state that uses SALT on the roads in winter...

I think this deserves a public execution and your vehicles donated to the
scirocco list for proper use.

-- 
Eric