[urq] Front fender liners: is this feasible ?

[Andrew B]

I've thought about Rhino Lining as an undercoating before.  I'm guess
that it's more expensive, but I haven't looked into it.  Judging from
the commercials it will last forever and do a decent job of protecting
rust...

Anybody tried it?

On 10/5/06, Andrew Finney <afinn1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fender coatings.
>
> I looked into this quite a lot when I redid the underside of the '85. It was
> a Beverly Hills car all its life, so "re-did" is an overstatement, just
> cleaned and beefed up the existing protection and spot repaired a few
> scrapes in the coating. Wurth makes two products, both available in aerosol
> cans, one is a high temp application (for engine bays), and one is a
> standard product for the body. Both are excellent, go on like paint and dry
> reasonably hard. I protected every single new fastener on the underside with
> a coating of the standard wax and all the engine compartment seams with the
> high temp stuff.
>
> I also tried the two Waxoyl producst, one is pinkish, and one is black like
> rubberized undercoating. These came highly recommended from a lot of british
> and european car enthusiast groups. There has been some maligning of the
> product on this list. In hot temps these products are slightly tacky and to
> some degree I wish I had not applied the black product the wheel wells
> because working under the car in the summer will may you messy, but it is
> self healing unlike undercoating. It gets over 100 degrees F here routinely
> in the summer. I used the pink product on all the inner body panels and
> especially around the inside of the rear wheel arches (reached from the back
> seat).
>
> When I replaced the carpet with one from a 4000Q I wanted to strengthen the
> carpet backing because as you all know, the plastic backing to the carpet is
> brittle and cracks. I found that Rhino truck bed liner, applied in 3 coats,
> binds the carpet back together amazingly and is incredible durable. I would
> HIGHLY recommend this product as spot repair for the stock urathane (?)
> undercoating over any sprayable rubberized coating.
>
> Just some thoughts.
>
> Andrew Finney
> 1985 UrQ soon to have  4.2L V8.
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