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Originally Posted by pushrod
LOL at thread.
How old is the oldest twin right now? 5 winters? That's not enough to get any sort of reasonable observation on rust.
Rust protection is the difference between 10 year old cars in the junkyard and 15 year old cars in the junkyard. If you only plan to keep your car for 8 years, who gives a fuck.
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Unless it is a Mazda! Visible bubbles in 3 years and rust through in 6.
It is the guys that figure they are going to keep these cars forever and ever because they will be a rare collector's item that are paranoid. I bet 99% of that crowd has moved on well before the first REAL rust ever appears. Little bits of surface rust is not what eats cars it is the stuff that festers behind the paint for a decade or so and then BANG a hole that does. Rust proofing will not prevent that hidden stuff no matter what the companies that do it tell you.
Cars are made of steel. Steel rusts. Even parked in the garage all winter it is rusting. Nothing short of storing it in a hermetically sealed bubble (or Arizona) will prevent it from rusting eventually. It started to rust the minute it rolled off the assembly line. The guys preserving them to make big bucks in twenty years are going to be very disappointed I think.