[urq] Wax coating

[i.rautenberg at waratap.com]

Correct.  Cosmoline is the protectant used for transport across the  
ocean.  Also sprayed on the engine compartment and often not removed  
from the engine compartment when car was delivered. The engine  
compartment looks like sh#t after many years, but if you powerwash it  
off (keeping water away from electrical components), the engine will  
sparkle like new :-)   Both are great corrosion inhibitors.  IIRC the  
wax coatings were actually wax dippings of the entire body before  
interior, electrical, engine and associated assembly of the rest of  
the vehicle.

Ingo

PS  Don't know if they're still doing the cosmoline coating or not.

Quoting "Pasqualoni, James E" <james.pasqualoni at gs.com>:

> 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...
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Bob D
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:49 PM
> To: MikeDes156 at aol.com
> Cc: urq at audifans.com
> 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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