Thread: Rust Protection

Electronic protection is bogus on something that is not submerged in water -eg. your vehicle - lanotec, fish oil - any spray on stuff is as good as anything. Some places can spray a black tar stuff on - I had this done to mine - needs a touch up each year.

I was going to suggest "move west of the Great Divide", but having checked where Bowenville is on the map, I suggest you should not have much of a rust problem.

John

Hope this isn’t digressing the thread but since it seems to be a general rust question.

I recall reading that the bulkhead of the defenders is a double skin which is difficult to treat? One solution was to drill a hole in the outer engine bay skin and then spray a fish oil / anti rust product inside. I seem to recall that one suggestion was to fill it with oil and let it “seep” out.

Anyone ever heard of this or done it? OR does my memory fail me. (wouldn’t be the first time)

Yeah i'm west of the divide. Not a hell of alot of sea water out here, hang on what the hells water(hassn't rained here for about 4 months). lol.
I get to fraser and straddy and any other beachs or islands i can find often enough. Thought it'd be better to have somthing to help with rust than nothing at all. Think i'll spray lanolin on the underside fairly often, pretty cheap for what it does. Supposed to make mud and anything else that sticks come off a bit easier. We got a few cattle might help to wash the crap off.

I would not worry about it too Much . You can take precation when you go to the beach and spend some time cleaning the car afterwards.

But belive me Aussie realy don't know what rust is. These cars are made and designed in the Uk where they put salt on the roads for 4 months of the year. You clean your car on a monday and then drive tpo work and the side of the car is covered with a film of white salt. It is worse than driving down the beach

As for the electronic devices that they sell. Two things make me very warry about them ,
1st is the Uk has a mayor problem with rust and is the main reason most of the cars in the Uk are alot newer than ones in Aus , and if these worked really well then why are they not sold in the Uk or Europe. Untill i came here i had never heard of them .

Also I once worked at the Southside Land Rover dealership in Brisbane and the chap from one of the companies that sells these came to us to make us sell them with new cars. As i had not really heard of them before i was interested how they worked. He told me they put a negative charge though the chassis. At which point i said to him, that the battery does that anyway, He then walked of and would not talk to me for the rest of the day. BTW at the dealership if you sold this with the car you got another $70 in your pocket

The best you can do is underseal the bottom of the car. Some do it with used engine oil and spray the underneth. Or you can buy wax oil which you spray all under the car. This is what is done in the Uk and is tried and tested to work


BTW i had a 1996 disco (lived in Aus at Bridie Island most of its life ) and a 1996 90 import from Uk . The 90 was rebuilt and resprayed 6 years ago. Underneth the two looked totally differnat. The 90 has alot of more surface rust on the chassis whereas the disco was still in the black paint that the chassis came out the factory with . The bolts on the 90 was always fun to undo if needed whereas the Disco they came stragiht of with too much hassle. Same if you look at a RRC pretty much all 1990 RRc in the uk will be on the second or thired rear top tailgate and 2 botoom one. With have the sills welded up and pretty much totaly replaced with bar and weld, And the front inner wings with be replaced the same as the Sills. Could not belive my eyes when i first saw a RRC here

I thought the oil leaks were built in rust protection

Originally Posted by gatesy

I thought the oil leaks were built in rust protection

well that was always a joke in the Uk that Land Rovers do two things, give themselves an oil change and rust protect themselves

Originally Posted by Reads90

But belive me Aussie realy don't know what rust is.

I beg to differ. I was at a govt auction once where they had 2 4x4s ex Qld National Parks. Only 2 years old! But they had spent their entire life on moreton/fraser.

One was a 130, and you could pull handfulls of rust off the chassis. The other was a cruiser ute - which looked in better shape, but the rear axle housing was about to fall apart due to rust. Both vehicles had maybe another 12 months life in them, tops. I have never seen a vehicle rust that quickly in Europe.

But I agree the average car in Europe is much rustier than the average car here.