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BigJimnyMeet 2024

14th July 2024
Parkwood Nr. Leeds

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Underseal ,Rust prevention. Is it worth it. ?

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04 Jan 2021 11:51 #231475 by Scimike
Hahaha :D

Thats just a bad day (funny) in the offiice, can happen to anyone with anything. Do it yourself, you know you want to!

Once drop a full can of "boil it youself" motorcycle chain grease in the kitchen.It promptly washed all over the floor and half way up the kitchen units before it solidified in a black grease line. The only clean patch was under my feet.
I had to jam the door to stop the wife entering the room and lie for 3 hours about why she could not come in whilst I removed most traces.
To this day she has no idea of just how bad it was :D 
No longer used solid grease chain lube!!

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04 Jan 2021 12:12 #231476 by DrRobin
Ah, we have all been there, black sludge came out of one of our radiators and all over the wall and hall carpet when I was taking it off to decorate. It took ages to come out of the new hall carpet and never came off the walls until we decorated, fortunately she was out and didn't see it on the carpet.

Mike, I used to boil up Linklife on the kitchen hob for my motorbike chain, that was before me and the missus started living together, I then used an old camping gas stove, but the Linklife tin is too unstable, it fell off once, but was still semi hard, so enter my little portable gas range, it works great and is super stable and is useful to heat up anything in a tin..

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My only incident with our cat (some time ago now, cat is long dead and buried in the back garden), I put some concrete down in the garage to cover the hole left by the gas board when they changed the meter. The cat stood in it while it was still wet (you can still see her foot prints) and then jumped up on to my sports car which was kept in the garage back then. The concrete marks came off the paint fairly easily, slightly harder from the soft top and the cats feet didn't seem to suffer at all. She was an outdoor cat, so didn't come in the house, just the garage and kitchen.

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04 Jan 2021 12:25 #231477 by Roger Fairclough
I was working on the car in the garage. I was using a 13mm combi. spanner. When I had finished the job I lobbed the spanner onto the bench. It hit a large can of pressurised Waxoyl which promptly exploded. Some of it hit me in the face and required a petrol soaked rag to get it off. I basically undersealed the garage wall and roof and worktop. 

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04 Jan 2021 12:34 #231479 by Lambert
I have mine trained. Anything like this is classified as "man glitter" and is NOT a problem.

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04 Jan 2021 12:48 #231480 by Old Neil

Scimike wrote: Hahaha :D

Thats just a bad day (funny) in the offiice, can happen to anyone with anything. Do it yourself, you know you want to!

Once drop a full can of "boil it youself" motorcycle chain grease in the kitchen.It promptly washed all over the floor and half way up the kitchen units before it solidified in a black grease line. The only clean patch was under my feet.
I had to jam the door to stop the wife entering the room and lie for 3 hours about why she could not come in whilst I removed most traces.
To this day she has no idea of just how bad it was :D 
No longer used solid grease chain lube!!

are duckhams chain grease, them were the days

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15 Jul 2021 11:51 #236699 by Coco BT
collecting a commercial next week. Thinking of having it done prior to collection. Is the £120 a standard Suzuki price? 
What areas do they cover and what products do they use?

Thanks 

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15 Jul 2021 12:25 #236701 by nogbad
That's cheap I had mine done by the dealership before we picked it up I think it was 250 pounds they just sprayed underneath didn't take anything off.

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15 Jul 2021 12:57 #236702 by lightning
Looking under our SZ5 l am still not 100% sure it needs extra wax based products squirting on the chassis etc
The inside of the box sections seems to already have a coating of something and l assume the outer panels are galvanised.

However it obviously won't do any harm to do it, if it makes you feel better.

l've done some spraying of wax under ours, with a product that doesn't dry out like the wax oil l used to use on my Land Rover.

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15 Jul 2021 13:09 - 15 Jul 2021 13:10 #236703 by Dan
Have a look under the jack.

There were rust spots bubbling through the paintwork on mine and its not had a hard life in the short time I've had it.
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15 Jul 2021 14:08 #236704 by Coco BT
think i may just diy it. My neighbour luckily runs a 4x4 disco specialist, always willing to help out on weekends

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15 Jul 2021 17:35 #236710 by lightning

Have a look under the jack.

There were rust spots bubbling through the paintwork on mine and its not had a hard life in the short time I've had it.

l will, thank you for the advice.
 

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16 Jul 2021 23:23 #236746 by lightning
Update

l checked under the jack on our 2020 Jimny and there's some sort of bitumous coating, sprayed over in body colour, so unlikely that rust will come through there.

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