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Surface rusting underneath

  • 11-06-2012 11:32am
    #1
    Glenalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭


    While taking the towbar of my 2006 Hilux at the weekend I noticed some surface rust starting to appear all over the underside. The vehicle has never been near salt water. What is the best way to treat this and prevent the rust from developing? Is there some product I can spray on to cure this? Thanks.


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  • #2
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    You can spray on some "Toyota forgot the underseal". It's great stuff but I find it hard to get it to stick somtimes.


  • #3
    101sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    Thought I'd replied to this but must have forgotten to send :o

    The stuff Pottler is on about is shutz or waxoil, black sticky sh!te you spray on. Comes in 1l cans you screw on to a shutz gun (need a compressor) which blows it over the chassis, the drive, the dog, yourself and anything else in the vicinity, it's a truly disgusting job to carry out. Basically coats the chassis in bitumen.

    You'd need to thoroughly clean the chassis and knock off any loose rust. It will take at least 6 cans, used 12 on my 101 but it's cheap enough.


  • #4
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    101sean wrote: »
    Thought I'd replied to this but must have forgotten to send :o

    The stuff Pottler is on about is shutz or waxoil, black sticky sh!te you spray on. Comes in 1l cans you screw on to a shutz gun (need a compressor) which blows it over the chassis, the drive, the dog, yourself and anything else in the vicinity, it's a truly disgusting job to carry out. Basically coats the chassis in bitumen.

    You'd need to thoroughly clean the chassis and knock off any loose rust. It will take at least 6 cans, used 12 on my 101 but it's cheap enough.
    LOL Sean, I was slagging Toyotas crappy underseal and their policy if you go to them and complain, but yeah, bodyschutz is the job - it comes in aerosols as well OP and they are easier and cleaner to use, I don't bother with the compressor version anymore, it's too messy. Is the Toyota an import?


  • #5
    101sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    Guessed you were but it probably confused the OP!

    It's not only Toyota when it comes to chassis protection either :rolleyes:


  • #6
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    Is it a Euro model Hilux or a Hilux Vigo (Thai)?


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  • #7
    Glenalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭Glenalla


    Its a UK spec, not an import from Thailand. Purchased from N Ireland dealer new.


  • #8
    Conways1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭Conways1977


    Galvo spray will offer protection against rusting = Any motor factors will stock


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