Winter protection

[Copperman05]

I intend on getting the car on a ramp and squirting a load of Dynax S50 on the front wing bottoms and sill cavities before the onset of winter. What other areas should I be looking at?

Cheers
Edd

 

[Ez_101]

Sills?

 

[sawood12]

Worth checking out your fuel line in the usual place they corrode and get some copperslip or sticky grease on them to add further protection. I don't think you are allowed to cover with underseal as it prevents inspection of the pipes at MOT time, but you want to get something on them. Also check the rear lip of the wheel arch where it bends down and inwards under the car. And I guess just check the general condition of the underseal to check if there has been any nicks or cracks in it where some careless grease monkey has mis-placed a jack at some point and stick a blob of underseal on there. Other than that these cars stand upto the weather very well indeed. The fact that there are so many 944's on the UK roads after 20yrs is testiment to that. You don't see near as many italian cars of the same vintage. We like to act all dissapointed when we hear about corroded sills and wings, but even with a fully galvanised shell 20yrs is extremely good going. Galvanising doesn't rust proof - it just slows down the corrosion process.

 

[cococola]

Last year I retreated my inner sills through the door shut vents and front wheel arch liners.I retreated my outer sills and repainted them and re undersealed the underside of the vehicle as some of the old underseal starts to crack. The general condition was very good however I feel happy that everything is hopefully sorted for the future.

 

[Alpine]

ORIGINAL: Copperman05 I intend on getting the car on a ramp and squirting a load of Dynax S50 on the front wing bottoms and sill cavities before the onset of winter. What other areas should I be looking at? Cheers Edd

Edd to do a proper job you'd be best removing the wheelarch liners on both side, clearing out the muck and debris behind the wing bottoms and then treating with Dynax. If you just squirt the dynax in without cleaning out first, it is unlikely to do a proper job.

 

[Alpine]

ORIGINAL: sawood12 Also check the rear lip of the wheel arch where it bends down and inwards under the car.

I've filled my rear wheelarch lip with grease so that water cannot collect

 

[Copperman05]

ORIGINAL: Alpine Edd to do a proper job you'd be best removing the wheelarch liners on both side, clearing out the muck and debris behind the wing bottoms and then treating with Dynax. If you just squirt the dynax in without cleaning out first, it is unlikely to do a proper job.

Seems like a good idea, thanks, how easy/difficult are the liners to take off? Edd

 

[Alpine]

ORIGINAL: Copperman05 Seems like a good idea, thanks, how easy/difficult are the liners to take off? Edd

Not that difficult, need wheels off and then there are about 5 or 6 retaining bolts to undue. You need to remove the black trim at the bottom of the wing too, that has 3 bolts from behind. The liners then pull out, with a bit of a twist and a tug. First time I did mine I think it took 45 mins per side, but i did it again earlier this year and it took about 20 mins per side. Well worth doing though; there was lots of mud at the bottom of my wings and round the black trim when I did them first time, and it is this that retains moisture and then leads to the wings rusting through from behind.