[urq] RE : Front fender liners: is this feasible ?

[Louis-Alain Richard]

Thanks Andrew, there is a lot of useful info in there.
 
But since I am on a budget, I will try to repair the most obvious faults
for now, and I'll have the car oil-shoot as a measure of safety. The
total resto will be for later...
 
LAR
 
 
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De : Andrew Finney [mailto:afinn1 at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : 5 octobre, 2006 07:35
À : laraa at sympatico.ca; martin at quattro.ca
Cc : urq at audifans.com
Objet : Front fender liners: is this feasible ?
 
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.