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Before and After underbody treatment

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lyndon:
I have seen the AD for this guy in the mags. Its only up the road from me. My disco is a 1990 model and has relativley little rust underneath. There is a small amount of corrosion in a few spots but no holes and if caught now they will probably be okay.

This guy steam cleans the underneath and then treats it after drying it out thourghly. He then gives it all a coat of Waxoyl.

Is this worth the £500 he wants to do the job. It comes with a 5 year rust free garrantee.

I am also thinking of giving her a new coat of paint. I can't decide if I want to shell out on a proper re-spray, or use some nice Army green matt paint (proper army gear) and roller it. The current paint job is in very poor condition. No rust just scratched to hell and dull. My thiking is as a fishing truck green would be good and with the army paint any future scratches just get painted out. The finish shouldn't be too bad with the matt stuff. What do you guys reckon?.

How much is a paint job and would you try the roller first?. Is the under body job worth it or should I try doing it myself ?.

Like I have said before I intend to do some serious work on her (and spend serious money I guess) and so it would make sense to stop the rust in its tracks now I suppose.

ady:
We used to charge £150 for the steam clean and waxoil, its a job that costs in materials and labour about £50 but its a messy job, not sure what he would treat it with apart from the waxoil, a full respray including in the doors is about 1k, if your not too botherd about the door checks and such then your looking at around £750, standox paint is £40 a litre at the moment. hope that helps.

lyndon:
Thanks. His advert says he sprays it with a compound called Steelguard or MOD no. PX 24 designed to chase water from the engines of Harrier jump jets on navy aircraft carriers. It penitrates the chassis and leaves a paper thin coatsing that has anti rust properties so once the Waxoyl goes on it seals the stuff in there and prevents further rust forming.

Any comments on Rollering the paint work with matt army paint?.

Jake:

--- Quote from: "lyndon" ---Any comments on Rollering the paint work with matt army paint?.
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We painted our old series that way.
The only problem we found was you used a lot of paint compared to spraying it on plus your bound to get a lot of runs.
Its easy to touch up though  :wink:

davidlandy:
a new galvanised chassis is about £1k

I would rather spend my money one one of those.

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