Is undercoating my Monte a waste?
#1
Is undercoating my Monte a waste?
So, here's the story. I live in the rust belt (ie: we dump tons of salt all over the roads all the time here). Even though I don't want to, I'll have to drive the Monte this winter, as my intentions in purchasing it were for it to be a nice daily driver. I know the underside of the car has no rust on it what-so-ever right now, and it seems that the factory rustproofing is still good BUT this was also the case with my ex Malibu when I first got it, which only took two years to rust out underneath and suffer because of it. So, I'm a bit worried to say the least, but I've heard undercoating is a complete scam and is innefective, etc.
What do you guys think?
What do you guys think?
#2
My car is going to go through it's 9th winter now, not much rust underneath it to be honest. Just try to wash the car once a week in the winter to get the salt off the best you can.
#4
Sounds good, just out of curiosity do you get a lot of salt where you live too?
We have a local carwash that does a underbody spray/wash for relatively cheap, so I might just use that if I go that route. I'm going to hope the Monte Carlo is higher quality than the Malibu because, well, I haven't seen one rusted out badly on the road yet. The Malibus though, are a dime a dozen.
We have a local carwash that does a underbody spray/wash for relatively cheap, so I might just use that if I go that route. I'm going to hope the Monte Carlo is higher quality than the Malibu because, well, I haven't seen one rusted out badly on the road yet. The Malibus though, are a dime a dozen.
#6
i just wanted to give you a heads up becuase parking in a garage can actually speed up the rust becuase the snow and ice that has build up melts mixes with the salt and the repeated process is not
#7
all that great give it more chance to seep into the metal.. but i am with mike on this one wash it weekly so it's not just sitting eating away at it
#8
When I lived up in the Poconos (6 years of the car's life) there is a TON of salt on the roads. In Philly there isn't as much, but I keep the habits of cleaning the car once a week (also make sure to dry everything really well, and keep those wheel wells clean)
#9
where i lived in va when i lived there there were alot of salt on the roads. i always made it a point to hose down and wash off what i could do underneath as well to prevent any thing from rusting.what i noticed on the malibu and some outher makes from outher manufactures are the wheel wells rust kind of horribly. i always pulled away the wheel skirts on the inside of the wheels to clean them as well. what i noticed is salt has a tendency to colect there if it is missed and never cleaned with care
#10
I can't wait to dry my car outside of the garage in winter this is going to be great. I guess that's the price I pay for a rust-free car, though. Also about the rust forming around the wheel skirts, that's definitely true, it was.. pretty bad around there.
Thanks for the headsup about the garage, I always thought it would be the opposite but now that I think about it that makes a lot of sense.
So I'm just going to assume that undercoating is not a gimmick, just unnecessary at this point.
Thanks for the headsup about the garage, I always thought it would be the opposite but now that I think about it that makes a lot of sense.
So I'm just going to assume that undercoating is not a gimmick, just unnecessary at this point.