Uggg bored out of my mind right now but too lazt to get back into the garage for now and keep plugging away.
So never having seen this type of product before, I've recently started seeing commercials and other media about a company who offers an Oil based undercoating for vehicles. I mean actual oil as in coating the entire underneath with dripping wet oil like motor oil or something. I thought it was just a bad SNL type bit made to be funny but for the motortrend channel. I liken it to the Progressive commercial where they have an insurance based amusement park. Its just a really bad idea.
Before I comment I will say that it's apparent to me that such a treatment would actually be effective in terms of preventing rust. We've all seen cars with some type of oil based under carriage leak where the area that was covered by the leaking oil as it crawls its way from front to back overtime has prevented any and all rust and anything coated in the leaking oil is completely rust free. So without any firsthand testing, I think that it would be effective. I mean there's proof in every oil leaking rust bucket on the road that wet oil prevents metal from rusting. SO I don't doubt its effectiveness. I'm trying to make up my own absurd example of something that would work to solve a problem but its such a bad and impractical idea that it would be silly to try to sell the public on it but I can't think of a analogy at the moment
So ok it would be effective as long as the surface was covered with a film of wet oil, but I watched these guys spraying a car with their treatment I was cringing man. I could never have that done to one of my cars. I've spent enough time and busted knuckles over the years trying to fix PITA oil leaks that seeing my car with the entire bottom side coated in wet oil like that would drive me insane. I have a real cringe reaction to it when I see it being put on but only aftr I realized that it wasn't meant to be funny at all. These guys were dead serious about telling the world that they had discovered the end all-be all rust "vaccine" that was going to eradicate 100% of all rust from planet Earth. Forever.
I couldn't even wrap my head around it being real at first because I immediately thought haha that's funny. It was so obvious what a failure of an idea it was to me. Shows you how much ( or little) I know. I feel like any self respecting car lover would naturally feel the same way but I guess I'm not the visionary that I thought I was because that company seems to be thriving and growing.
It's not a new idea apparently and I've always pictured it being done the first time by some not highly educated lug head type guy you see in movies who's being ridiculed by the rest of the guys when he shows them what he's come up with all on his own. And yet he still believes it's a genius idea. The old "don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something" story.
Does anyone else have a problem doing that to one of their cars? Let's assume it is VERY effective and would guarantee to protect against ever having even a spec of rust on your car for life. Oh and it only costs ten cents to have it applied. The only trade off being that your car would be eternally drenched in oil underneath forever. It just goes against the grain man/ So much so that I predict that that company will be out of business fairly soon and the process will be relegate to DIY'ers by selling $20 Rust proofing kits at Walmart in a rattle can. It also comes with a pair of disposable cardboard eye protection and an oil spill mat for under the car. Of course you can get the deluxe Kit for $30. That includes a smaller travel size can of oil drench to keep in your glove box for roadside touch-ups when you and the car just feel "dry" for some reason and the only surefire cure is a nice quick re-drenching of oil. Plus it includes a "deluxe" spill mat which is almost DOUBLE the size of the standard kit.
That's how ludiucrous the idea seems to me. And I know there are going to be "voices of reason" who respond by saying it's actually a very brilliant and effective method of rust proofing and here are the 73 scientifically proven reasons why you're an idiot (meaning me). Thanks but save it. This reaction is not fact based. Its based purely on my own emotions. I'm never, ever coating my entire vehicles underbelly with oil and letting it stay there forever. hehe
Now do you believe me when I said I am bored as heck? Uh oh, I think I hear the guys i white suits coming down the street. And now I'm STILL bored! I almost wish that I drank right now.
So never having seen this type of product before, I've recently started seeing commercials and other media about a company who offers an Oil based undercoating for vehicles. I mean actual oil as in coating the entire underneath with dripping wet oil like motor oil or something. I thought it was just a bad SNL type bit made to be funny but for the motortrend channel. I liken it to the Progressive commercial where they have an insurance based amusement park. Its just a really bad idea.
Before I comment I will say that it's apparent to me that such a treatment would actually be effective in terms of preventing rust. We've all seen cars with some type of oil based under carriage leak where the area that was covered by the leaking oil as it crawls its way from front to back overtime has prevented any and all rust and anything coated in the leaking oil is completely rust free. So without any firsthand testing, I think that it would be effective. I mean there's proof in every oil leaking rust bucket on the road that wet oil prevents metal from rusting. SO I don't doubt its effectiveness. I'm trying to make up my own absurd example of something that would work to solve a problem but its such a bad and impractical idea that it would be silly to try to sell the public on it but I can't think of a analogy at the moment
So ok it would be effective as long as the surface was covered with a film of wet oil, but I watched these guys spraying a car with their treatment I was cringing man. I could never have that done to one of my cars. I've spent enough time and busted knuckles over the years trying to fix PITA oil leaks that seeing my car with the entire bottom side coated in wet oil like that would drive me insane. I have a real cringe reaction to it when I see it being put on but only aftr I realized that it wasn't meant to be funny at all. These guys were dead serious about telling the world that they had discovered the end all-be all rust "vaccine" that was going to eradicate 100% of all rust from planet Earth. Forever.
I couldn't even wrap my head around it being real at first because I immediately thought haha that's funny. It was so obvious what a failure of an idea it was to me. Shows you how much ( or little) I know. I feel like any self respecting car lover would naturally feel the same way but I guess I'm not the visionary that I thought I was because that company seems to be thriving and growing.
It's not a new idea apparently and I've always pictured it being done the first time by some not highly educated lug head type guy you see in movies who's being ridiculed by the rest of the guys when he shows them what he's come up with all on his own. And yet he still believes it's a genius idea. The old "don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something" story.
Does anyone else have a problem doing that to one of their cars? Let's assume it is VERY effective and would guarantee to protect against ever having even a spec of rust on your car for life. Oh and it only costs ten cents to have it applied. The only trade off being that your car would be eternally drenched in oil underneath forever. It just goes against the grain man/ So much so that I predict that that company will be out of business fairly soon and the process will be relegate to DIY'ers by selling $20 Rust proofing kits at Walmart in a rattle can. It also comes with a pair of disposable cardboard eye protection and an oil spill mat for under the car. Of course you can get the deluxe Kit for $30. That includes a smaller travel size can of oil drench to keep in your glove box for roadside touch-ups when you and the car just feel "dry" for some reason and the only surefire cure is a nice quick re-drenching of oil. Plus it includes a "deluxe" spill mat which is almost DOUBLE the size of the standard kit.
That's how ludiucrous the idea seems to me. And I know there are going to be "voices of reason" who respond by saying it's actually a very brilliant and effective method of rust proofing and here are the 73 scientifically proven reasons why you're an idiot (meaning me). Thanks but save it. This reaction is not fact based. Its based purely on my own emotions. I'm never, ever coating my entire vehicles underbelly with oil and letting it stay there forever. hehe
Now do you believe me when I said I am bored as heck? Uh oh, I think I hear the guys i white suits coming down the street. And now I'm STILL bored! I almost wish that I drank right now.