Thread: Protection from beach driving

they have had about 12 goes at fixing the roof on my Defender. Has been returned covered in overspary, paint peeling off, replaced rear windows due to overspray, now has cuts in paint work form what appears to be stanly knife after putting new sealent on roof join.

Originally Posted by spudboy

Do you still need to do this if you only go in dry sand?

We have a beach close to Adelaide (Goolwa/Murray mouth) when you drive down via sandhills and it is pretty wide.

I go there quite a bit, but never get it in the wet sand. It gets sand underneath, but because it's dry, I have never bothered rinsing it down after these trips.

Do you reckon I should still be rinsing it off, even if I keep out of the wet stuff? We mainly take the new Puma, so I don't want to end up with it rusting of course.....

Thanks
David

Beach sand has sea salt in it....whether it is wet or dry.......dry sand packs up under your vehicle......rain comes....water sprays up.....sand gets wet......salt gets wet........things start to rust....so to answer your question....YES...your vehicle should get a through wash down after each beach excusion....then park it over the lawn sprinkler.....some beaches have a vehicle wash down area like a car wash where water is sprayed up undet the vehicle

Living at Stockton Beach for the last 25yrs, sand & salt is a constant foe. I work in the irrigation industry. I made up a small 1m long 1/2" pipe peice. Fitted a 1" click-on tap nut to one end with a 1" x 1/2" bush, a 90deg 1/2" m&f elbow at the other end, a shrub adapter screwed onto the m&f elbow, and a 15' radius high volume full circle fan spray nozzle fitted to the shrub adapter (like gets fitted to a small pop-up sprinkler). It hangs next to the hose reel in the driveway.

Makes it real easy to reach under all of the vehicle, wheel arches and all the underbody area for washdown everytime we come off the beach. Quick & simple and washes out far more sand than one can easily get at with just a garden hose & nozzle.

About $15-$18 at any good irrigation store.

We used to run a panel shop. Underbody protection like Tectyl is a good idea, and it works! ... but washing down after each beach trip is just as important!

Kev..

Originally Posted by scarry

Have had a bit of work done by them & always found them to be excellent.They coated juniors Puma with underbody sealent,& wanted him to come over & check all was ok before they got it off the hoist.They also checked inside the chassis rails with a bore scope,to check it was coated correctly.

Would you mind popping over to help me get the overspray off then?

We sent it back, and they removed some of it.. but there is still plenty to practise on

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Would you mind popping over to help me get the overspray off then?

We sent it back, and they removed some of it.. but there is still plenty to practise on

Whats the problem,cant you get onto either them or whoever sent the vehicle over there & get it sorted?