Electric Rust Protection POLL!

shad · 3rd May 2009, 08:09 PM

see this advertised all the time in fourby mags has anyone had this installed does it work

being a keen surf fisher am looking at all the best products to protect my girl

defender 110

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 3rd May 2009, 08:17 PM

RIGHT!

Poll Time!!!

**Grockle** · 3rd May 2009, 08:40 PM

Over here theres a co that does it costs around £2,000.00,had ours undersealed and waxoiled for around £300.00.

**harlie** · 3rd May 2009, 08:43 PM

I have removed 3 (various) systems from friends 4WDs now. Why? they had rust. Only cars fitted with these I've seen with no rust also had a good coat of paint...

Talk to an industrial chemist, I did....

**harlie** · 3rd May 2009, 08:58 PM

It will protect your Defender really well - definitely won't rust while there’s a good layer of paint on the car. Get a Hyclone too.

Seen heaps of cars now with this rubbish developing good surface rust once they get a few kms and the original paint or underbody coating is thinning. I put the question to a Friend (was my best man) who is an Industrial Chemist and after a looking into it for a week came to the conclusion that he can’t believe they can market it. Electrolysis and Galvanic corrosion maybe but rust no.

Try and find a car with some bare metal - see if it has rust...

**abaddonxi** · 3rd May 2009, 09:02 PM

Do you reckon that snake oil is cold pressed?

Or do it while they're warm and active?

**abaddonxi** · 3rd May 2009, 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by Grockle

Over here theres a co that does it costs around £2,000.00,had ours undersealed and waxoiled for around £300.00.

Would have thought that for that kind of money you could get a galvanised chassis, and get someone else to put it together.

Simon

**p38arover** · 3rd May 2009, 10:03 PM

Some years back, Overlander did an article on it espousing how good it was Some time (a year or two) later I suggested a follow up article.

They never did it. I wonder why.

**dullbird** · 3rd May 2009, 10:05 PM

wow look its 50/50 at the moment

**dmdigital** · 3rd May 2009, 10:22 PM

Here's a good little read: Car Rust and How to Stop It (Dr Karl Homework: ABC Science)

Some years back when I was buying the D2 I asked a couple of the corrosion specialists at work about these systems. The answer I got was basically the same as the above article. Cathodic protection systems don't work on a car. Strictly speaking they aren't snake oil, but they also won't do anything to inhibit rust when used on a car. Boats, bridges, pipe lines are a whole different story though.

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