To wax or not to wax?

[Erics]

Gentlemen,

Per my other lengthy thread, many of you probably know that i recently acquired a fully restored car in Germany.

The finishes were not 100% and it just spent 2 weeks with my local guy who had as a task to iron out a number of things: small water leaks, battery not right, fit white steering wheel, re align the woods, paint polished and detailed etc...

He is about to put back on the factory yellow, red, white and green marks to the chassis.

Now my questions are the following:

the underside of the car looks superb and he advised me against applying any wax as it looks too crisp to 'spoil'..
I seem to understand that these cars did have underside wax applied from the factory.
I would not mind a bit of underside protection. I live in england after all and i want to drive the car (ok not in the snow and when roads are salted and gritted).

*Should i have wax put on, yay or nay?
*If yes, which one and on which parts?

Thanks in advance,
Eric.

[Erics]

some pics

[jameshoward]

Where the car has had the floor pans replaced the original finish has gone, so you could put underseal there, but it would make for quite a lot of work if you were to do it properly and not make it look messy. Personally, I would put underbody seal there, but I'm not too fused about how the underside of may car looks as I'm really the only person that sees it. It's a shame the restorer didn't do that properly for the want of a bit of extra work. But so long as the car is painted underneath - which it is - you don't need to worry too much about waxing it provided you keep it clean and rinse off the underside, etc esp after driving in rain, snow, etc. What you should do is worry about the parts you can't see, so inside the box sections, up inside the wheel arches along the famous water trap, dinitrol in the sills, etc. That's where the trouble starts. There's a diagram on the site from MB that shows where Dinitrol/waxoly should be applied.

JH

[Erics]

Thank you kindly James. I can't find this diagram. Could you please put me in the right direction?

[Jonny B]

Erics,

Try "waxoyl" in the main search function. I just did and got a page of hits. I did not read through them, but a single page should be manageable, and will give you some insights into many aspects of the underbody treatment.

I also tried with "dinitrol" there were about six hits. Also easy to read through (some of them are probably the same as the "waxoyl" search.

[Erics]

Hi Jonny.

Thanks.

I did it with Dinitrol and Waxoil.

I read a lot of what was there.

What i would be really after is a diagram as to where to apply.

[Jowe]

Thank you kindly James. I can't find this diagram. Could you please put me in the right direction?

Check here: http://www.sl113.org/wiki/ChassisBody/Rust

[Jowe]

Also, found this test of anti-rust treatments: http://www.auson.se/sites/default/files/rusttest_noxudol_700_classic_monthly_uk.pdf