wax coating

[bob]

Those coccoons are discarded really? Dang, Id love to get my hands on 
one of those!

Wylie Bean wrote:
> No cosmoline ( or anything else for that matter) applied to the car's
> finish except for an easily-removable static-infused plastic that
> leaves no residue whatsoever.  That has almost entirely given up its
> position (at least with Audi) in favor of Tyvek/cloth fabric coccoons
> that are removed and discarded at PDI.
>
> The "wax-dip" portion of the assembly process is not only meant to
> fill body cavities for rust prohibition, but it also evacuates those
> same body cavities of water left over from the assembly process as
> well.
>
> no cosmoline used on the motors anymore either.
>
>
> Wylie Bean
> TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
> 90 Cq
> 99.5 A4 Avant 1.8Tq
> 01 allroad q 2.7T
>
> (all of the above learn't directly at Audi's new ABS school back in
> 2000)
>
>
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