Note that he is using the shaker cans, which is proven inferior to an actual spray gun application. It's still great, but they thin the product, so it comes out of the can. I bought a gun and spray all of my families cars ever fall (7 vehicles) for the past couple of years, and it is 100% worth it! A 5 gallon pail gets you 7 to 9 vehicles with a heavy application.
Very cool. A few items that will help prevent the rust even more: 1) spray it inside lowest 3-4 inches of your doors and fenders (front and back). There are videos showing how to do this or you can buy the FF Professional sprayer and buy the stuff by the gallon. 2) When you get a few warm days in the mid/late winter, grab a can and give the underside of your car a spray.
I have talked all my friends into using this. I have done my tacoma every year since 2021. This stuff gets everywhere. We did my friends 4runner a week ago I helped him and my truck was covered in it.
At this rate, besides the brakes, at 30 years old it will be in the same condition as a car that didn't use fluid film for 1 year!! I love this stuff!!
I live in Michigan too and just started applying it to both my cars the other day. I let the car sit for at least 24 hrs after i apply but with all this rain we got i get worried it comes off but when i check its still all there.
I Have my 2023 Crosstrek covered in fluid film and, it has already been through a salty Alberta Canadian🇨🇦winter❄️🧂 and other than the dirt stuck to the oil it looks just as the good as the day I picked it up! Meanwhile another friend of mine with the same car only exposed 1 season to the salt (without fluid film) and you can already see the surface rust forming 😬where as mine still looks brand new! 😇. I am very happy to be able to see the proof in the pudding! Thanks for making this video :) and I will continue to oil and hopefully drive mine for years to come! 😝
I use Fluid Film for motorcycle chains, but I live in an area with limestone rock and softer dust than other areas. For cars best to get a long spray wand to get inside doors and fenders through holes with plastic caps added, and like you said touch it up every fall for areas with lots of winter road salt.
@@KurtofTrades I have an 18 year old Jeep Grand Cherokee and currently live in PA. I even drilled small holes in the frame and used a long spray hose. I even took off the door panels and the rear hatch panel and sprayed in there. This stuff seems to work pretty well.
We use fluid film part A and B in 5-gallon buckets (paste and film) for shipping container repairs and service vehicle protection. Good stuff for Sure! Another excellent product for friction that never gets much spotlight is Slip Plate Graphite lubricant. We also use that for door seals and areas that make the container doors hard to open.
Connecticut here. I love fluid film I have found the best results if you dont wash the undercarriage of your car once you use fluid film. Started using it on my wife jeep when it was new in 2016. I do it twice a year.... not a spot of rust. Again, my wife never washes her vehical and I honestly think that helps the fluid film. People who absolutely love to wash there cars and get them squeeky clean every week.... its probably not for them. I would like to point out that here in the rust belt.... washing your car will not stop the rust. It helps if you do it yourself. But these automatic carwashes do more harm than good in my opinion. Unfortunately I went 10 years on my dodge caravan before discovering fluid film. The rust already took hold before I started. 18 years later Im still driving it. I think the fluid film did slow the rust down, but not stop it. The best bet is to start from a brand new car.
Ford Focus from that generation is very well known for rusting :) i had one for few years, really nice and reliable car. lived in the desert had no rust.
Is it suitable to spray directly on rust or paint? One of my car's fenders is beginning to rust and paint is flaking off, would like to hold it off the best I can this winter until I can get it fixed. The underside is perfect though...
Keep up the Good work!!! I do the same on my 92 740 VOLVO WGN i have no Rust people want to no if my VOLVO came, from Forida😂🤣 ive used fluid film for 6yrs when car was new i used old motor oil for the firsy 25yrs im in salty Boston
curious about when it creeps on the paint- I'm assuming then dirt sticks to it- Then when you wash it off of the brush, how bad is it scratching the paint?? Great videos though Going to apply some to my truck thanks
I have a 13 Legacy that’s lived every winter in Ohio. Has moderate rust underneath, lots of paint on frame/suspension components turning into surface/hopefully not penetrating rust. Has the typical Subaru rust forming on the rear wheel well where it meets the bumper too. Is it too late for fluid film? Do I need to prep or can I spray it directly over?
I wouldn’t bother. To fix it you will need to weld in new metal, it’s likely much worse underneath on the strut towers. Fluid film won’t hurt but it’s too far gone to make much of a difference
Only question I have, is how effective is it when applied over existing surface rust? Does it slow it down? Does it fall off or peal off like non lanolin products?
Does it degrade trims and rubber parts if over spray hits them? Fluid film specified that oil resistant parts are safe from over spray,but how am i suppose to know if these parts are oil resistant?
Thats crazy! I did hear that it creeps, but this is the first video I've seen that shows the extent of it. It didn't realise it happened to this extreme. How did you spray the inside of your doors? Did you remove the inside door cards or did you spray it in through holes? I'm going to be doing mine using a spray gun and I'm concerned about spraying it in through holes in the doors because I dont want it going all over the glass and the window winder mechanism.
What caused it to stain your exterior door and rocker panel? I don’t see it staining anywhere else on your exterior? I want to prevent that if I can when I apply it.
Dude I live in Michigan too what do we do the weather is starting to get up into the 40s again. Do we rinse the fluid film off or wait until the end of winter ? These temperature changes have me confused. Help lol
For the smell, I read somewhere that someone mixed an oil based Glade air freshener into their 1 gal can of Fluid Film, so instead of smelling like lanolin, the vehicle smelled more like apple cinnamon. I have no idea if it works, but it could be interesting to try.
I sprayed fluid film inside my doors (bottom, behind the rubber) and rockers and now my car smells like mildew, is this normal? It reeks, especially when my vehicle sits in the hot sun for an hour or longer.🤮 i feel like i will need to clean the fluid out and just spray some rustoleum....what would you suggest i do? The smell is so bad to the point where i could barely sit in my vehicle for that long.
need to remove the door panes and spray fluid film on the inside bottom of the doors....they rust from the inside out from salt washing down into the doors..
@@whatitisnt. use a jack and a jackstand. Get some of those hoses and nozzles for this kinda stuff and put it through framerails & rockers, there should be holes covered by rubber plugs, pry those out with a screw driver. Once applied, put the plugs back on.
So do you apply it every year? I am on my second year of using it, i degreased the undercarriage, let it dried Andthan I reapplied again, should I be doing that every year?
Fluid Film specifies re-application every year. Not degreasing, just a touch-up where it's gone or where there may be rust starting. Surface Shield is a bit more durable and specifies a 2 year touch-up interval.
I'm raised on a sheep farm. If some of the Fluid Film gets inside the car, it will smell just like the part of the sheep shed where we kept the smelly rams. 🐑
Pretty much the same thing. Old timers used to put on old motoroil then do a drive out on dry dusty country roads. Practically, anything you apply is better than nothing, a new car in the rustbelt (N.Y and the like) is gonna be toast after a few years because the rust will have gotten a solid hold. You can brake/delay/slow down the rusting process with fluidfilm/oil products, because it denies the rust the oxygen it needs to thrive, but eventually the rust is gonna win out.
Would fluid film or surface shield cause rust over time since mud or dirt sticks to it over time? I sprayed my subbie with them and the underbody is caked with dirt .
If it's gonna creep out to the outside surfaces it's not a product I would want to use. Car will look like crap and needs to be scrubed by hand. No thanks.
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Note that he is using the shaker cans, which is proven inferior to an actual spray gun application. It's still great, but they thin the product, so it comes out of the can. I bought a gun and spray all of my families cars ever fall (7 vehicles) for the past couple of years, and it is 100% worth it! A 5 gallon pail gets you 7 to 9 vehicles with a heavy application.
Very cool. A few items that will help prevent the rust even more: 1) spray it inside lowest 3-4 inches of your doors and fenders (front and back). There are videos showing how to do this or you can buy the FF Professional sprayer and buy the stuff by the gallon. 2) When you get a few warm days in the mid/late winter, grab a can and give the underside of your car a spray.
It’s really great! I got it in the doors and hatch too!
I have talked all my friends into using this. I have done my tacoma every year since 2021. This stuff gets everywhere. We did my friends 4runner a week ago I helped him and my truck was covered in it.
At this rate, besides the brakes, at 30 years old it will be in the same condition as a car that didn't use fluid film for 1 year!! I love this stuff!!
It really is an amazing product
💯 it's a must!
I live in Michigan too and just started applying it to both my cars the other day. I let the car sit for at least 24 hrs after i apply but with all this rain we got i get worried it comes off but when i check its still all there.
I Have my 2023 Crosstrek covered in fluid film and, it has already been through a salty Alberta Canadian🇨🇦winter❄️🧂 and other than the dirt stuck to the oil it looks just as the good as the day I picked it up! Meanwhile another friend of mine with the same car only exposed 1 season to the salt (without fluid film) and you can already see the surface rust forming 😬where as mine still looks brand new! 😇. I am very happy to be able to see the proof in the pudding! Thanks for making this video :) and I will continue to oil and hopefully drive mine for years to come! 😝
It’s amazing how bad cars can rust in just one year isn’t it? I still never understand why some people done use an undercoating
Good lord it's only a 2023 it better not being g showing rust!
I use Fluid Film for motorcycle chains, but I live in an area with limestone rock and softer dust than other areas. For cars best to get a long spray wand to get inside doors and fenders through holes with plastic caps added, and like you said touch it up every fall for areas with lots of winter road salt.
Those sprayer extensions are pretty good, they make 360 degree nozzles for them
@@KurtofTrades I have an 18 year old Jeep Grand Cherokee and currently live in PA. I even drilled small holes in the frame and used a long spray hose. I even took off the door panels and the rear hatch panel and sprayed in there. This stuff seems to work pretty well.
We use fluid film part A and B in 5-gallon buckets (paste and film) for shipping container repairs and service vehicle protection. Good stuff for Sure! Another excellent product for friction that never gets much spotlight is Slip Plate Graphite lubricant. We also use that for door seals and areas that make the container doors hard to open.
Connecticut here. I love fluid film I have found the best results if you dont wash the undercarriage of your car once you use fluid film. Started using it on my wife jeep when it was new in 2016. I do it twice a year.... not a spot of rust. Again, my wife never washes her vehical and I honestly think that helps the fluid film.
People who absolutely love to wash there cars and get them squeeky clean every week.... its probably not for them. I would like to point out that here in the rust belt.... washing your car will not stop the rust. It helps if you do it yourself. But these automatic carwashes do more harm than good in my opinion.
Unfortunately I went 10 years on my dodge caravan before discovering fluid film. The rust already took hold before I started. 18 years later Im still driving it. I think the fluid film did slow the rust down, but not stop it. The best bet is to start from a brand new car.
Ford Focus from that generation is very well known for rusting :) i had one for few years, really nice and reliable car. lived in the desert had no rust.
do you just spray it on the exterior panels like you did in your video or do you spray the door seams and inside the holes in frame?
No I was just doing that for demonstration, underside and inside the doors.
Is it suitable to spray directly on rust or paint? One of my car's fenders is beginning to rust and paint is flaking off, would like to hold it off the best I can this winter until I can get it fixed. The underside is perfect though...
Yes it will work fine. It will slow it down some but is more of a preventative for before it gets that bad.
@@KurtofTrades Thanks and very helpful video.
Thanks Man!
Please continue this Test :)
Will do!
Keep up the Good work!!! I do the same on my 92 740 VOLVO WGN i have no Rust people want to no if my VOLVO came, from Forida😂🤣 ive used fluid film for 6yrs when car was new i used old motor oil for the firsy 25yrs im in salty Boston
Good stuff!
curious about when it creeps on the paint- I'm assuming then dirt sticks to it- Then when you wash it off of the brush, how bad is it scratching the paint?? Great videos though Going to apply some to my truck
thanks
My cars white so they don’t really stick out, I haven’t noticed any deep scratches. Surface shield is really terrible to get off of paint though
I have a 13 Legacy that’s lived every winter in Ohio. Has moderate rust underneath, lots of paint on frame/suspension components turning into surface/hopefully not penetrating rust. Has the typical Subaru rust forming on the rear wheel well where it meets the bumper too. Is it too late for fluid film? Do I need to prep or can I spray it directly over?
I wouldn’t bother. To fix it you will need to weld in new metal, it’s likely much worse underneath on the strut towers. Fluid film won’t hurt but it’s too far gone to make much of a difference
Only question I have, is how effective is it when applied over existing surface rust? Does it slow it down? Does it fall off or peal off like non lanolin products?
It stays on rust pretty good, if it’s light rust it helps a lot, if it’s deep rust nothing will really help other than getting new metal.
You can get FF in other forms than spray cans. You can get it in 1 gallon, 5 gallon and 55 gallon sizes.
Does it degrade trims and rubber parts if over spray hits them? Fluid film specified that oil resistant parts are safe from over spray,but how am i suppose to know if these parts are oil resistant?
Haven’t had issues with any trims or rubbers. Seems almost everything on the underside of vehicles is oil resistant.
Just did my daughters 2018 impreza. What really surprised me was how much road dirt was built up on top of plastic undercarriage of the impreza
Thats crazy! I did hear that it creeps, but this is the first video I've seen that shows the extent of it. It didn't realise it happened to this extreme. How did you spray the inside of your doors? Did you remove the inside door cards or did you spray it in through holes? I'm going to be doing mine using a spray gun and I'm concerned about spraying it in through holes in the doors because I dont want it going all over the glass and the window winder mechanism.
It’s really good stuff. For the doors I sprayed in from the bottom drain holes using the straw that comes with the cans.
What caused it to stain your exterior door and rocker panel? I don’t see it staining anywhere else on your exterior? I want to prevent that if I can when I apply it.
It creeps out from the areas that are sprayed. I sprayed in the holes at the bottoms of the doors and inside the rockers. It easily wipes off
Great videos by the way very informative. Thank you for the reply! 😊
Love the Fluid Film on my WRX!
Dude I live in Michigan too what do we do the weather is starting to get up into the 40s again. Do we rinse the fluid film off or wait until the end of winter ? These temperature changes have me confused. Help lol
I don’t wash the underside at all until spring. You Could with a hose but I wouldn’t use a power washer
@@KurtofTrades would you wash the body of the car ?
Is it ok to lut over the laint work to protect it from rust like doors bonnet ect
Is there a way to stop the fluid film from creeping onto the paint? I don't want to ruin the clean look of my new car.
Don’t spray it close to the painted surfaces. If you don’t spray it directly on the paint then the creep wipes off pretty easily.
If it’s sprayed on the clear coat accidentally, does it wipe off easily?
Very easily.
For the smell, I read somewhere that someone mixed an oil based Glade air freshener into their 1 gal can of Fluid Film, so instead of smelling like lanolin, the vehicle smelled more like apple cinnamon. I have no idea if it works, but it could be interesting to try.
I sprayed fluid film inside my doors (bottom, behind the rubber) and rockers and now my car smells like mildew, is this normal? It reeks, especially when my vehicle sits in the hot sun for an hour or longer.🤮 i feel like i will need to clean the fluid out and just spray some rustoleum....what would you suggest i do? The smell is so bad to the point where i could barely sit in my vehicle for that long.
It will go away in a couple days.
Unless it’s being constantly being fed to and applied to the brake rotors as you drive, it won’t affect them or your braking.
need to remove the door panes and spray fluid film on the inside bottom of the doors....they rust from the inside out from salt washing down into the doors..
If you spray in the drain holes at the bottoms it has the same effect, but yes getting inside the panels is very important
What about Woolwax®Spray? Any better?
Haven’t used it but I have heard good things about it, I think it’s nearly identical
It is same type of product much thicker harder to wash off both great products.
At 7:44 do you mean don't wash the undercarriage after fluid film permanently or just few months/weeks/days while it dries?
Definitely not the first month but there’s really no reason to wash it at all in the winter.
@@KurtofTradesany recommendations on applying it? Do you just use a 3 ton jack and a few jack stands?
@@whatitisnt. use a jack and a jackstand. Get some of those hoses and nozzles for this kinda stuff and put it through framerails & rockers, there should be holes covered by rubber plugs, pry those out with a screw driver.
Once applied, put the plugs back on.
If these products are "sticky", dirt affixes to the undercarriage. Does the dirt eventually "wash off" exposing what we are covering? Thank You!
The dirt doesn’t really affect how the product works it just attaches to it. The product still makes a barrier wether or not it has dirt on it.
Dirt holds the oil on better.
Do you need to pressure wash the undercarriage before using this product?
It’s not required but I would. Make sure it’s really dry after before sprayinf
@@KurtofTradesThank you
So do you apply it every year? I am on my second year of using it, i degreased the undercarriage, let it dried Andthan I reapplied again, should I be doing that every year?
Yes every year it needs to be reapplied. I don’t usually degrease the underside I just spray more on over the top. Either is fine though
@@KurtofTrades fair enough, thanks for the quick response:)) I’m honestly impressed with this stuff
Fluid Film specifies re-application every year. Not degreasing, just a touch-up where it's gone or where there may be rust starting. Surface Shield is a bit more durable and specifies a 2 year touch-up interval.
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Very interesting and very variated chanel.
Why spray it on the outside paint??
Just showing how the products apply. It’s harder to see on the underside of the vehicle
Is this only to be used under the car?
That’s what it’s made for yes, it won’t hurt the paint though.
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Very informative, thanks.
Will your car get rust if you live in the rust belt?
Its doing its job
Car detailers are Screaming right now from the Scrub Brush on the paint.
😂 you are correct! I usually don’t do that haha
Is it too late to apply it in late November early December?
No it’s not, usually it’s better to apply before the salt starts flying though.
I'm raised on a sheep farm. If some of the Fluid Film gets inside the car, it will smell just like the part of the sheep shed where we kept the smelly rams. 🐑
I wonder how fluid film compares to cold pressed linseed oil, seems very similar at a first glance allthough linsseed oil smells like a wood workshop
Pretty much the same thing. Old timers used to put on old motoroil then do a drive out on dry dusty country roads.
Practically, anything you apply is better than nothing, a new car in the rustbelt (N.Y and the like) is gonna be toast after a few years because the rust will have gotten a solid hold.
You can brake/delay/slow down the rusting process with fluidfilm/oil products, because it denies the rust the oxygen it needs to thrive, but eventually the rust is gonna win out.
I'm pretty sold because that's a Subaru.
Rocker panel...not fender.
Would fluid film or surface shield cause rust over time since mud or dirt sticks to it over time? I sprayed my subbie with them and the underbody is caked with dirt .
I wouldn't think so, mud and dirt don't cause rust. Water and salt do. You will get dirt stuck to it but that shouldn't actually cause any problems.
@@John_Ridley Dirt and debris might trap salty water though
@@de3429 No. It will help repel/displace salty water. Part of how this works is water won't stick to it. Mud consists of water and dirt.
If it's gonna creep out to the outside surfaces it's not a product I would want to use. Car will look like crap and needs to be scrubed by hand. No thanks.
I figure the car looks like crap all winter anyways from the snow and salt so not that big of a deal 🤷♂️
Rust out your car
Goodbye to your car and the 40k mortgage you have on it then, hope it looks good for the little while you'll have it.