[urq] Wax coating

[Pasqualoni, James E]

Two different things here.  Yes, Cosmoline was the stuff they coated the
car with that was cleaned from the cars at the $tealership using a
special solvent.  Hot wax was used to, er, um fill the cavities heh
heh...

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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [urq] Wax coating

Isnt it officially called "Cosmoline" or something like that?


MikeDes156 at aol.com wrote:
> My first "real" job out of High School was as a New/Used car mechanic 
> at a Volkswagen/Porsche/Audi dealer. All the new cars that came in 
> were coated with this "wax", and I had to steam clean it off as soon 
> as they arrived at the dealership. A few times I went to the dock yard

> to pick up a new car and drive it back, but I always brought a 
> scrapper to clean off the glass. I was told then  (late 70's early 
> 80's) that the wax was to protect them from the salt air on  their 
> long ship voyage from the Fatherland. The cars were sprayed with the 
> wax  in Germany before the journey to the states. Just thought I'd
share a bit of  this useless info.
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