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Old 10-15-2010, 10:09 AM
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Do these things work?

http://www.ruststopnorthamerica.com/


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I was going to say 'search' but then I did and 99.5% of google hits are from the company themselves or copy the brochure from them.

I did find these:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...15135956AA62xPL
http://www.canadiandriver.com/forum/index....ic,43470.0.html

Oily spray-on coatings on a clean car will do more for you than this thing IMO. You aren't driving a steel boat in the water, you're driving a car. Rinse the undercarriage when you can to get salt off the bottom of the car, oil it, and that's about as good as you are going to get.
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Snake oil. Rust is also known as Iron Oxide. Iron with an extra Oxygen particle, not iron with a valence atom. Removing the valence atoms does not stop rust. They have alot of science on their site, but it's the wrong concept.
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You could put on some zinc tabs like they do for the locks (the kind that raise and lower water levels) but it would only work in a particular area.
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I have installed a couple of these. Interesting to note that they mainly go in the engine bay. I dunno I'm definetly on the fence. I have seen success, but I have done some intense undercoating jobs that swat couldn't get through. I do hate working on undercoated cars though ahhhh fark!
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depending on something like this to make sure it doesn't rust is null. only good ole fashioned elbow grease and knowledge of salty roads is the key on this.




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