looking under the car i could see surface rust in a few places.... pretty much all at the front in parts where the car was poorly sprayed and not masked up... which ended up spraying alot of things like pipes, radiator and quite alot underneath front of car..

 

 

before i do any thing major with the engine in future i wish to keep this protected... can anyone advise how i can treat the surface rust and then carry on protecting it in future?

Good old waxoyl or Shultz spray it all!! or you can paint it on

so do i just rub it down and put it on?

 

im going to be soo much more on top of this :)

 

sitting over damp/cold conrete cant of helped over winter :(

 

remember to paint concrete this year

rust convertor then wazoyl ;)

Good old waxoyl or Shultz spray it all!! or you can paint it on

 

Waxoyl will NOT cure rust mate.

 

Remove the surface rust as best you can (wire brush) then coat with a rust convertor such as kurust or dinitrol converust. Then it can be sprayed with your choice of underseal.

Wire brush will only remove the surface rust, not what lies beneath. Most car rust comes from the inside out.

 

You can't protect something that's already there. To do that you need to cut out the affected area, re-sheet, paint and seal.

 

Get some pics up of the rust. Can have an idea from photos which way it's rusting.

Wire brush will only remove the surface rust, not what lies beneath. Most car rust comes from the inside out.

 

You can't protect something that's already there. To do that you need to cut out the affected area, re-sheet, paint and seal.

 

Get some pics up of the rust. Can have an idea from photos which way it's rusting.

 

Very true but my answer refers to surface rust (as per title) not full blown rot :batman:

cheers for all your answers. most of it is surface as ive prodded really hard (more than i should) and it was study..

 

i will also take funkysi's advice and get some pictures up soon. i will treat the rest and cut out any damaged bits if i find some

 

will post in a new thread at some point in next few months.

 

cheers all