Coatsy91
Member Since: 29 Dec 2016
Location: Stirling
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Hi Guys
I am looking for some advice on undersealing my D3, I was looking to do this myself as I don't want to pay the £200-300 to have it done at a garage.
I have been looking at Schutz and hammerite underseal and I was wondering if anyone had used either product and could recommend one or the other ?
Cheers guys 
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 11th Jun 2017 8:53 pm |
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Coatsy91
Member Since: 29 Dec 2016
Location: Stirling
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Cheers for the info Disco_Mikey,
The messiness is not a problem, I am a fencer/farmer
I will have a look at the buzzweld, is it a spray on or a paint on ?
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| 11th Jun 2017 9:09 pm |
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dreynolds10
Member Since: 11 Jun 2013
Location: Berks
Posts: 166
 
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I used dinitrol and it seems to be holding up well (only one winter so far though). Disco3 project
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| 11th Jun 2017 9:11 pm |
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Coatsy91
Member Since: 29 Dec 2016
Location: Stirling
Posts: 61
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Thanks dreynold10,
I will have a look at that as well
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| 11th Jun 2017 9:18 pm |
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Disco_Mikey
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: Dundee, Scotland
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Coatsy91 wrote:Cheers for the info Disco_Mikey,
The messiness is not a problem, I am a fencer/farmer
I will have a look at the buzzweld, is it a spray on or a paint on ?
Either My D3 Build Thread
TDV8 Retrofit Build Thread
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| 12th Jun 2017 6:43 am |
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Wardy93
Member Since: 05 May 2017
Location: Manchester
Posts: 33
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Buzzweld sound good but see a fair few bad reviews about them, which put me off. I went with Dinitrol and paid to have it professionally done at a reputable garage and the product and the application was awful currently trying to get my money back 
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| 24th Jul 2017 12:17 pm |
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lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
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Dont use any form of underseal as it WILL eventually flake off and trap water making the problems much worse.
Chassis wax on the other hand wont hurt at all so long as you avoid waxoyl as its proper rubbish.
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| 24th Jul 2017 5:50 pm |
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Markland
Member Since: 16 May 2015
Location: 80085 Pebkac Terrace
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There is a product couple named perma-film and fluid-film.
But as usual in the conserving business, 2/3 of the job is the way You prepare the surface.
There is no product, You can brush over rusty bits and cure it all and forever...!
I used fluid film in several viscosities, from spray, to slime, until wax-like for the care of the frame, and been using the perma film product for the underbody of the chassis and outer perts of the frame.
It's clearly a possible DIY, but clearly not the greatest fun if one is not equippeted with the neccessary stuff and tools, meaning a compressor, spray guns, special sprayguns for the inside of the tubes, additional machines for roost treatment and roost conversion (brunox, i.e.)
Should reserve a long weekend to do it properly.
Maybe decide to do it in sections of bach, left, and the sides, as it makes sense take off some parts to gain access to the crucial corners, where the little roost-muppets live having their rustparty in the humid dark of the corners, where You nearly never wash it, even with a lance and 20bar and warm water. TDV6MY07-automatic-LHD-noDPF-iidbt-ffrrMod
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| 24th Jul 2017 7:22 pm |
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A.J.M
Member Since: 31 Oct 2009
Location: Carluke
Posts: 2815
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Mine will eventually be going to a place out past Glasgow airport for Dinitrol on it.
Have seen a few cars that they have treated and the results are very good.
Car is away for a week and they provide a disc with lots of pictures of the full treatment.
£600 but to me its worth the cost.
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| 24th Jul 2017 10:13 pm |
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Barn1e
D3 Decade
Member Since: 28 Aug 2006
Location: Mid-sussex
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I used Dinitrol on an old MX5 about 5 years ago. Still doing it's job. 2005, TDV6 S, Auto, 190k miles, owned from new, V8 Brake Upgrade, Nancom Evo, RLD protector, BAS EGR blanking & Remap, separate ATF cooler, changing all the fluids ahead of time.
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| 25th Jul 2017 7:46 am |
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B16 KJR
Member Since: 10 Jul 2006
Location: Rosyth, Fife
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A.J.M wrote:Mine will eventually be going to a place out past Glasgow airport for Dinitrol on it.
Have seen a few cars that they have treated and the results are very good.
Car is away for a week and they provide a disc with lots of pictures of the full treatment.
£600 but to me its worth the cost.
He certainly made a good job of both the cars that Iv'e had done
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| 25th Jul 2017 10:32 am |
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lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
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A.J.M wrote:Mine will eventually be going to a place out past Glasgow airport for Dinitrol on it.
Have seen a few cars that they have treated and the results are very good.
Car is away for a week and they provide a disc with lots of pictures of the full treatment.
£600 but to me its worth the cost.
For 600 quid you can buy the compressor/air line/wax applicator gun and all the wax and diy it, plus have some money left over, from then on its free to do any other car you may own.
Its not a hard job to do well.
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| 25th Jul 2017 4:33 pm |
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A.J.M
Member Since: 31 Oct 2009
Location: Carluke
Posts: 2815
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That is very true, but i don't have the time to rub down a full car, get the rust curer for any rusty bits, etc.
then spray it all.
Would rather let those who have been dealing with this stuff for longer than i've been alive deal with it as it will be done properly. 
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| 25th Jul 2017 10:03 pm |
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Welsh Wizard
Member Since: 19 Sep 2016
Location: CARDIFF
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Can anyone recommend anyone to do this in the Cardiff area? Ours needs doing.
Thanks in advance
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| 26th Jul 2017 12:39 am |
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of a job.
