Anti-Corrosion Treatment

The anti-corrosion work was carried out by the official representative of the Swedish company Auson, “Eurotechmarket”.

Transcription of a conversation with the director before accepting the car:

“Years certainly take their toll. Honda is Japanese. It was made with completely different technology compared to new cars. Usually, on Japanese cars, it lasts about a year and a half, depending on the winter’s temperature regime; if the winter is warm, it might start deteriorating by summer. The deterioration process means that while the coating is intact now, where there’s serious corrosion, it absorbs the corrosion, dries out, and begins to peel off along with the corrosion, and that needs fixing.

Let’s look at the photos.

There are no holes, because today we categorize old cars by whether they have through corrosion or not.

Front right arch, upper longerons, and of course, the lower ones are very corroded, and in these places, there are no holes yet, but it’s close. That there is peeling is understandable, the car is 12 years old.

This is the power threshold; a decorative one goes on top, it’s rusty but still solid and healthy.

Top mount, shock absorber cup. This is the longeron on the other side.

Definitely, in these areas, but it’s the rear part, here the material will peel off because there’s very serious corrosion, and it will peel off nicely.

This is the first layer we soaked with liquid containing inhibitors. You can’t work with it any other way here. Then we applied wax.

Suspension elements were also done; it won’t give you anything significant, but when the whole car is being done, it inevitably gets on the suspension, and some parts will be done, some won’t. So we do everything fully, so it doesn’t look “treated here”/“not treated there”.

This is already the wax, it’s a completely different color – dark brown.

You see, my deep knowledge of materials, experience, and the appearance of Krown pushed me towards this treatment system.

When they appeared, especially strongly in terms of advertising, I first watched the company, studied them as much as possible. I drove up to them, looked. Now we redo their work once or twice a month, people come to us.

They gave me the idea that they have one product - a liquid composition for all occasions: hidden cavities, underbody, and everything else. It’s like transformer oil, a completely liquid composition. Maybe it works, I’m not going to judge them. But that it’s unacceptable, not suitable for new cars – that’s for sure. Because even giving you the car back, you sit down and there are no leaks and there won’t be. All because the material is technologically chosen. We have a similar product – Noxudol 750, we did the first layer with it here. It always flows, it’s always greasy, that’s why we cover it with wax. So that, first, it doesn’t wash off, and second, it does its job. They are based on one foundation and create, conditionally, a film after applying two layers, but in the lower film, it penetrated deeply and stopped corrosion, and the upper layer gives mechanical strength and protection from washing off.

“People come in saying, ‘what I did, what I didn’t do - nothing’s left, it all washed off.’ Because it’s oil, conditionally.

So, thank them for the idea.

Just more and more aged cars started to appear. Today, three cars in a row, all old.

Sometimes they ask to cover it with black wax. Many I try to explain – they don’t understand. It will wash off there, something else, like “it needs to be done in black”. I tell them, the car will rot under it. “Then I won’t do it with you, you don’t understand anything”. Go ahead. I’m absolutely calm about this. I just feel sorry for people because they will do it, blacken it, and then they come to us. It seemed fine for three years, but now… “What, it’s peeling, flaking, and corrosion underneath? - Yes, how did you know?”

This material doesn’t have penetrating power. Conditionally, if you imagine corrosion under a microscope in cross-section, it’s like a heart diagram. And when you only treat it with black, it only reaches halfway up the peak, and there’s an air layer left at the bottom. And here minus/plus, from humidity there condensation forms, it has nowhere to go because it’s covered with a film on top and it stays there. And it’s like a salt bath. And if you even caught a little bit of sulfur from the air, let’s say in Minsk, these are salts, and that’s it, the car rots. So it’s worse than doing nothing, at least the car will “breathe”. I then say, better then do nothing at all. If there’s no money or opportunity, it will at least “breathe”. You drove, got it wet, it airs out. Didn’t drive, it stands, it will rot.

That’s why the first layer is liquid here. It has penetration properties in a 50 μm gap test (half a cigarette paper) - 70 cm. I.e., it crawls through the gap just fantastically, naturally it impregnates corrosion. Sometimes, when the corrosion is serious, we apply it and say it will take a few days. “What are you going to do with it? - Nothing, it will just hang like that”. I.e., we applied the liquid composition, an hour-two-three passes, you look, as if nothing was applied - absorbed. The master says “like into dry land”.

We were also skeptical, the product is very old, also didn’t really believe until we convinced ourselves on certain points. We did a lot of Matizes. And now 10-12-year-old cars come to us, which are left. Their door edges at the bottom are flaring out, sealant is rising, corrosion. At first, we tried: cleaned, then etched, then acid primer, then acrylic, then painted, then sealant. A year later, it comes back - corrosion again. And you can’t take a lot of money for it, and it’s a lot of trouble. Then we decided to try this chemistry, 15 minutes of work on a Matiz. Not counting the fact that it stands, gets soaked. Just cleaned with a wire brush, because it’s all rotten, applied this product, it absorbed, applied a second time. Covered it with the same wax on top. A year later, the person comes back - nothing. Two years later - nothing. The cost is pennies, work time - minimal, the effect - colossal. That’s how we came to this technology, plus Krown. It’s not the Swedes who came up with it, but nevertheless, it works.

There are cars now for three years. There’s such a Lexus as a benchmark. The car is maximally cared for. It even has white furry mats. There are felt wheel arches in the area where the rear wheel arches meet the vertical walls. And because they’re wet and salty all the time. We treated it, it’s been three years now. Last year we removed it - nothing, this year - nothing.

So it’s not money down the drain. And we’ll see further…”

Various compounds were also used to treat the trunk lid edge, trunk niche seams and hood, hood, door cavities, door edges, and the body under the hood area.

Materials used:

• Mercasol 831 ML / 6 liters
• Mercasol 2 / 0.3 liters
• Mercasol 1 / 0.3 liters
• Coatex 652 / 3 liters
• Noxudol 750 / 7 liters

Work by days:

1. Dismantling, washing, drying
2. Treatment
3. Drying
4. Drying
5. Drying

• Total cost: 232 USD
• Mileage: 220 050 km