The product
Most rust-proofing shops around here run one or the other. We run FLUID FILM®, and rather than tell you the other one is bad — it is not — here is what actually differs, so you can decide on the vehicle you own and the winters it sees.
The shop is at 2498 Lapeer Rd, Port Huron, MI, 48060 — one bay, one address. 7 days · 9 AM – 10 PM, by appointment only, with a key drop box for drop-off.
FLUID FILM® is a lanolin-based film — refined wool wax and corrosion inhibitors — that goes on wet and stays that way. It does not cure; it creeps. Corrosion Free is a thin-film, dripless product that dries to a clear coating with a corrosion inhibitor in it. Both are sprayed into the same places, both are reapplied annually, and both are a great deal better than nothing.
Salt does its work in the seams and box sections, not on the open flat surfaces. A product that keeps moving keeps finding those seams for weeks after it is applied, and it self-heals when a stone chips it. A product that dries stays where it landed; if the coverage misses a seam, that seam is unprotected until next year. On a frame that already has surface rust, the wet film soaks into the scale and stops it; there is no stripping, no primer.
A dried film is cleaner. It does not carry a smell for the first few days, it does not leave a light residue on a driveway, and it holds up somewhat better to a summer of pressure-washing. If your vehicle lives in a heated garage, gets washed weekly and is new, the difference over a single season is small. If it lives outside, drives gravel and salt, and already has some rust on it, the film that keeps moving is the one doing more for you.
That either product is permanent. Neither is. Michigan winters take a year's coverage off any of them, which is why every shop in this trade — whichever product it runs — books the same customers back each autumn.
Questions
Still not sure it is worth doing on yours?
Ask Rick →Tell us the vehicle and when you could drop it — most jobs are done the same day.
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