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On a whim, I looked up the price of this stuff. It hasn't, apparently, changed much in a couple of decades. However, it seems to be supplied in "black" and "clear" nowadays. Is the original honey-coloured gloopy stuff no longer available?
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Lordy. I'd have thought they'd have gone out of business with galvanised cars these days.
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Golden honey Waxoyl still available.
I use it on the pressed steel black painted wishbones on the Yaris and on the rear suspension pans.. These are not galvanised and rust at the welds.
And as Mercedes E class owners will understand , these parts rust. In the case of 1997-2003 Mercedes, the front cross members rust through...
As do brake lines and various other dirty and not looked at bits.
When you keep cars as long as our family do (or buy them secondhand and old) Waxoyl is very useful.
My 5 litre can is 20 years old though so i am not a current customer. My sprayable cylinder is more modern: about 10? years old:-)
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Lordy. I'd have thought they'd have gone out of business with galvanised cars these days.
Not at all - it self-perpetuates by keeping old non-galvanised bangers on the road.
The last can I got was the honey coloured stuff. Mind you "pouring" it from the gallon can into the schutz can was a bit messy.
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>>Lordy. I'd have thought they'd have gone out of business with galvanised cars these days.
My Audi is galvanised and is starting to rust on the front wings at 5 years old! Wish I had used Waxoyl :-(
I use it on my TF as well as it is bound to follow the MG tradition of disappearing to crusty metal given enough time. Although so far so good with that one.
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Given the labour intensive nature of this unpleasant work, it makes sense to use the best form of protection available.
I have been very unimpressed with the performance of Waxoyl and have been unexpectedly surprised by the effectiveness of Dinitrol (the grade number escapes me, but it's the smelly runny brown liquid which sets into a waxy solid).
Although my VAG vehicle is galvanised and not rusty, plating the fasteners effectively seems to have escaped their capabilities. The use of poorly protected ferrous screws in the wheel arches to fix the liners seems to be the best they can do. I have removed each screw in turn and treated the threads and the heads when replaced. Despite the heads being fully exposed to water flung from the wheels, it doesn't wash off. The infamous front suspension "pinch bolts" have had this treatment too.
No connections with either Company of course.
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Edited by 659FBE on 02/09/2008 at 17:07
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Classic Waxoyl is next to useless
It does not self heal, does not adhear properly to the surface allowing and traping water under it, blocks drainage and is easily disloged by stones and chippings.
Utterly inapropriate to put on the bottom of a car.
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The one that came top in tests a while ago was Bilt Hamber. Just ordered 5 litres to do mine & a mates 944's Link to there site is 'ere.
www.bilthamber.com/
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"Clear" Waxoyl is in fact the honey-coloured stuff.
And no, galvanization doesn't prevent rust, it only delays it :-(.
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