Jesterr6216 · Mar 8, 2017

Morning folks. My ex-RAF 90 is getting a tad rusty in the old belly area. Where we live these days I can't undertake doing the job myself, so I'm looking for a garage/dealer based in the north east of England (ideally close to South Shields) that anyone has used and would recommend for blasting off the old rust, and then treating the whole underside to prevent new stuff. There used to be a place called the Waxworks but that seems to have gone by the by. I can find places down south but that's nae use to me up here.
Any help/pointing in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

norseman · Mar 9, 2017

The only places I know are, unfortunately, in the South. Be very careful in your choice as this industry is riddled with cowboys operating out of a shed, who think just squirting a bit of (various products) under your motor constitutes proper rust treatment & will charge you £400 - £500+ for the privilege.
I'm not going to elaborate as this is a very contentious subject, suggest you do a search on the forum & form your own opinion.

biggeeeee · Mar 9, 2017

Jesterr6216 said:
Morning folks. My ex-RAF 90 is getting a tad rusty in the old belly area. Where we live these days I can't undertake doing the job myself, so I'm looking for a garage/dealer based in the north east of England (ideally close to South Shields) that anyone has used and would recommend for blasting off the old rust, and then treating the whole underside to prevent new stuff. There used to be a place called the Waxworks but that seems to have gone by the by. I can find places down south but that's nae use to me up here.
Any help/pointing in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Good to hear Waxworks has went out of business - had my TD5 coated a few years back and he claimed that he would inspect yearly for a few years and sort any peeling with FREE top ups.
When I contacted him after the first year to book an inspection - he claimed business is poor so I'm not doing inspections at the moment, I'll contact you if this changes. Guess what never heard from him again.

brian47 · Mar 9, 2017

Another route you could take, if like me you have a local indie garage you really do trust. I supplied a full Dinitrol "kit", plus some extras and he did the job for me while I was swanning about in Yorkshire for a week.
He steamed off the underside, dried and inspected it then applied the Dinitrol products as directed on the tins. He charged me for 4 hours work in total.

Disco1BFG · Mar 9, 2017

brian47 said:
Another route you could take, if like me you have a local indie garage you really do trust. I supplied a full Dinitrol "kit", plus some extras and he did the job for me while I was swanning about in Yorkshire for a week.
He steamed off the underside, dried and inspected it then applied the Dinitrol products as directed on the tins. He charged me for 4 hours work in total.

This is fine advice if you can't DIY.

Clearly you do need a garage you can trust to empty the "cans" into/onto the vehicle, rather than into the bin.

Dinitrol is good stuff, and IMHO, 4 hours labour charge is good value too

Jesterr6216 · Mar 9, 2017

norseman said:
The only places I know are, unfortunately, in the South. Be very careful in your choice as this industry is riddled with cowboys operating out of a shed, who think just squirting a bit of (various products) under your motor constitutes proper rust treatment & will charge you £400 - £500+ for the privilege.
I'm not going to elaborate as this is a very contentious subject, suggest you do a search on the forum & form your own opinion.

Cheers Norseman

Jesterr6216 · Mar 9, 2017

Aye, that's exactly what I'm after, a garage someone recommends in the northeast. Just not an option to do the work in our communal car park. The neighbours would go beserk.
I thought the waxworks site sounded too good to be true.
Definite niche in the market up here.

Brown · Mar 9, 2017

It can be possible to work in communal or public areas without incident. I've Dinitrol-ed mine in the street, by putting down a big sheet of plastic and parking on top of it. It was a piece of builders' damp proof membrane from Screwfix as I remember. The compressor was in a shed at the back of our house and I just used a long air hose to work my underseal gun. Once finished I threw the plastic away. For touch ups I use a paintbrush for the thick stuff (4941) and a spray bottle for the thin and runny (3125).

gargoyle · Mar 9, 2017

Dinitrol are promoting authorised treatment centres on their website. The nearest to Shields is in Darlington. I'd heard of Dinitrol doing this as the garage that rechassis'd my 110 has become an authorised centre as well.

norseman · Mar 10, 2017

brian47 said:
He steamed off the underside, dried and inspected it then applied the Dinitrol products as directed on the tins.

The drying is very important. When I had my RRC first done a few years ago this part of the process was obviously skimped as the Waxoyl coating started to lift on the rear chassis after only a few weeks, I got the coating in that area re-done FOC but I still had to swallow the traveling costs.

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