Cars are destroyed by salt in the rust belt, Toyotas seem to be the worst, but every car I have ever seen rusts. Since it’s a really warm weekend in WI, I tackled the job this (at a minimum this takes two days, due to dryin) here is what I did:
1. Removed all fiber panels from the wheel wells and undercarriage, along with the front plastic tray. Sprayed all steel panels with cosmonline (RP-342). This includes suspension arms, and subframes. focusing on pinch welds and seams.
2. Sprayed the inside of subframes, and body cavities with 3M cavity wax. Purchased the 3M wand set, to easily get in places such as rocker panels.
Still need to do the inside of doors and tailgate. Thinking of using wool wax on those since there won’t be much dirt attracted inside of those areas. One note, this is a very messy job, I went thru 3 tyvek bunny suits, wore a respirator (the fumes are nasty), and put plastic under the ST. Here are some wheel well pictures. Three of the wheel wells are still wet (bottom pic is dry) cosmoline is very runny, but the runs seem to go away by the time it dries.
1. Removed all fiber panels from the wheel wells and undercarriage, along with the front plastic tray. Sprayed all steel panels with cosmonline (RP-342). This includes suspension arms, and subframes. focusing on pinch welds and seams.
2. Sprayed the inside of subframes, and body cavities with 3M cavity wax. Purchased the 3M wand set, to easily get in places such as rocker panels.
Still need to do the inside of doors and tailgate. Thinking of using wool wax on those since there won’t be much dirt attracted inside of those areas. One note, this is a very messy job, I went thru 3 tyvek bunny suits, wore a respirator (the fumes are nasty), and put plastic under the ST. Here are some wheel well pictures. Three of the wheel wells are still wet (bottom pic is dry) cosmoline is very runny, but the runs seem to go away by the time it dries.
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