Edit 11/4/22 Going forward Surface shield will have a female top on the aerosol cans like the other products that are out in the market. This means the grafitti adapter is no longer required to attach the inner cavity tool to the aerosol can. As of now both the male and female cans are on store shelves. Just something to watch for. Products used in this video: Surface Shield Gallon: amzn.to/2YpscVq Surface Shield 5 Gallon: amzn.to/30rrrvK Surface Shield Aerosol: amzn.to/3BIUgk8 Fluid Film: amzn.to/3mQbiZy Woolwax: amzn.to/3wmpbS1 Professional Spray Gun: amzn.to/3bIN9gX Aerosol Can Spray Handle: amzn.to/3EUpE1b Graffiti Adapters for MALE Blaster Cans: amzn.to/3CPi5rX Inner Cavity Spray Wand for Aerosol:amzn.to/3NNtZbP Wireless Borescope: amzn.to/3CPdCoV My Amazon Store: www.amazon.com/shop/repairgeek Help support the channel, buy using my Amazon links As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases and your cost is exactly the same My Amazon Store: www.amazon.com/shop/repairgeek Help support the channel, buy using my Amazon links As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases and your cost is exactly the same.
I just tried surface shield for the first time this past weekend on some round frame rails before putting caps on the end Inside the wheel wells. I picked up 10 cans from Harbor Frieght and to my surprise I got 7 cans with a male end, and 3 cans with the new female end. I wasn't aware of Blaster making this change, so I had already purchased a cavity coating wand made by 3M that accepts the male end cans. Now I'll have to buy another wand for these new style cans. I'm curious, have you verified that the KBS coating wand works with the new female surface shield cans? Or have you sprayed it with the KBS wand and the graffiti adapter?
Dude, I busted your chops in the past and you proved results with your data. Appreciate your videos! Don’t be entertained by the haters, keep producing great content!
That thing looks amazing! I just had my truck done with NH Oil this weekend. I plan on keeping up with it and I hope to get the same results. Great series of videos. Thanks for sharing.
I live in the rust belt and I'm trying to make my 2021 tundra last 15 to 20 years. I've sprayed a heavy coat of fluid film every year and it's absolutely spotless! I'll keep it up every year.👍
Major respect for what you’re doing here with the channel, and loved the “stay curious” bit as it really separates the marketing and claims from reality. Congrats on the position with B’Laster!
I watched a lot of undercoating review to settle on which product o was going to offer in my business. I've sprayed both WW and FF and found WW to be better for long term adhesion. I've not tried Blaster mainly because of the cost but from what I've gathered is Blaster is essentially the same as FF and WW but has petroleum jelly added to increase its longevity. When I do undercoating I spray thick. Usually 1.5 to 2 gal for a truck. I also spray everything including the floor pans and bottom of the bed. On my second year I had a few repeat customers and was beginning to think they weren't satisfied and went elsewhere. That wasn't the case at all. They simply saw that it didn't need another coat. Again, thanks for your honest reviews.
I drive a 19’ Toyota Tundra and i live in Erie Pennsylvania. I don’t care what you drive around here, you must undercoat!.. i have black fluid film applied every October and i still have “No rust, at all” …. All the stuff they put on the roads be it salt, brine, sand, cinders will eat an untreated vehicle alive in no time. Protect your investment. 😊
I had my 4Runner sprayed for the third year in a row. When I went to pick it up they asked, “have you been driving this truck at all? It looks new.” Thank you for all of the informative videos on this topic. 👍🏻
I live in central NY land of salt, brine and sand+gravel dumped on roads thru winter. I just purchased my first NEW vehicle in 44 years. I coated it with fluid film and will diligently keep coating it. Thanks for your work and unbiased information all the best to you.
I heat the Woolwax to about 180* and blast inside all the frame holes. It comes out so fine that you can actually see plumes of W.W. mist come out in all other areas of the frame, far away from where I am actually spraying. This ensures that the inside of the frame is coated as well. Great videos!
Hey I used a product called Waxoyl . They have underbody and cavity products and instructions indicated to place in hot bucket of water then pour into spray gun for best results coating and creeping into pinch welds and inner sheet metal.
I have a 86 D21 that was parked for 20+ years, it has taken some research to get it back on the road and while learning about rust I found your channel. Thanks to your testing and advice I have applied Surface Shield liberally. Thank you for the help.
Congrats on the new job. You and research and development team should open up shops in the midwest. Like a jiffy lube or tires plus. That would be a game changer. Who wouldn't love to have a shop who can under coat a vehicle with a good product.
My shoulders can't do it all day every day. I tried doing like 3 cars a day for a week this year. By the end of the week my shoulders were tore up from holding the spray gun over my head for literally hours a day.
Should develop a bungee setup for assisting with that. I’m happy with this product. I did my truck for the first time last fall. It’s a game changer alright!
Tell blaster to put a better spray nozzle on the spray cans, had issues spraying it this weekend, product was indoors before I used it and it was 70 degrees outside and kept the can shook up, had to remove and reinstall the nozzle multiple times. I like the product so far, they need to get more of it out there it was kinda hard to find, thanks for listening
I just had my new Outback undercoated with Fluid Film. I ran out of time to do it myself, so I had another company do it. I wanted to use Surface Shield based on your results but I could not find any dealers. I realize it is a new product, but Blaster needs to have an online list of applicators once the product gets more established.
Really appreciate this content. It takes a huge amount of energy and resources to make a vehicle. Anyone who promotes protecting these vehicles from corrosion so they last as long as possible is doing a great service to people and the environment. I have lots of experience with fluid film and I found it washed off too easily (salt/snow belt Ontario), and it is expensive. I also have experience with "annual dripless underbody oil" from Carquest. I can get a 5 g bail for the same cost of 1g fluid film. This stuff is 100% dripless and seems to last longer although it's likely toxic compared to lanolin.
I have a 2015 crv. I’ve fluid filmed it since it was 2 months old. I live about 45 minutes from you. I’m dead sold on either product. I love that your proving over and over is you can have a rust free car anywhere if you just take the time and do what you do. I drive 76 everyday so it’s brutal on the salt spray. Great video man !!!!!
I absolutely love fluid film. Your video of the two Chevy work trucks side by side sold me. Just coated my Honda for the winter as I am in Ohio also. Thanks for your honesty on everything. Makes it easier for guys like me to pick a route that has been proven in the past as far as undercoatings go. Keep up the great work sir and good luck on the new job!
I'd love to have my truck coated with Surface Shield, but I'm just not able to do it myself! I hope Blaster will work to get a dealer network set up where people can take vehicles to be coated.
We all have personal needs that we have to take care of first, ie mortgage, rent, car payments, children, credit cards, cell phones etc. With that being said you do what you have to do! Your the reason I started coating my 2005 Ford excursion with wool wax. This is my second year and I really like the results. I only choose wool wax because I wanted black undercoating. I live in SD and I drive nationwide for work ( Wildland firefighter) I drive on a ton of dirt roads, the product holds up! Thank you for taking time to do the research, film, edit and post this video. You keep testing I'll keep watching and make my decision based off information given.
I live in Norway and so it snowes a lot, and in the “big“ city’s they salt but if u buy a car from where we don’t salt u will see a biiiig difference on cars from where we salt to where we don’t, so judging something like this to protect from salt it makes big difference. Love ur vids
Great job. I just had my new F150 coated thoroughly with Surface Shield by a true professional when it come to undercoating 😉. Can’t wait to see the results after a Cleveland winter. Definitely will follow your recommendation and have it done again next year.
I live in the Salt Belt and started using Woolwax when I got my 07 Silverado from Texas about 3 years ago. All our cars get a treatment every May and touch-ups in October. I even spray over the rust and it slows down or stops further rust. You can even spray inside frame channels. Advice: if you use an air compressor, put an air dryer between the compressor and your air gun, otherwise you may be trapping moisture inside the Woolwax. Also warm the quart jugs in the sun (or in hot water if you live in the northeast where the sun doesn't exist) to make it flow better.
I like the flammability test you did, keep the great work. I use both fluid film and blaster. I use fluid film on non-washed areas and blaster on washed areas. I confirmed also after a year that the blaster was still on my bolts around my wheel wells. Thanks for all of your reviews. God bless you and your family!!!!!!!
I have a 1986 Ford Bronco that I plan to restore. The only reason that I got it is that its frame is still in great shape with only minor spots of surface rust. There are some areas on the axles covered in oil and road dust; under the oily layer the axle has its original paint intact.. It seems the wet coatings is the way to go...
Awesome results I’ve been following your channel for awhile. I have a 2002 Chevy Tracker that I bought here in Michigan pretty rusty being on a budget I made my own undercoating out of toilet wax rings, bar and chain oil, boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits to thin it. After two years and two treatments it’s held up very well and the cost is significantly less. I wish I had the means to do a in-depth results video like yours that being said I’d like to see you do one with a homemade undercoating like mine.
I just put on surface shield today 6-23-23 on my new 2022 GMC Canyon i'll see this time next year how well it works I just got finished 2 hours ago I'm trying because you said its some good stuff great Videos.
I put 2 coats, back to back to insure coverage when new of fluid film and the underside is fine after 9 years!! I only recoat a litte when I do brake work or similar to replace wiped off film. Same on my pickup in 2020 and it is perfect.
Surface Shield looks good. I had similar results using AMSOIL HD MP. I put two coats on a new Tacoma and 8 years later (in OHIO) no rust! Down side of AMSOIL, they don't sell bulk. It only comes in 15oz spray cans and it's hard to find.
I coated my entire snowplow including the frame and everything mounted to it 2 years ago with Surface Shield shortly after buying the plow. I have a deep scratch on the front of plow just above the cutting edge. The only thing I've sprayed on it since is the front of plow which gets most of the abuse from grit and salt. That scratch that's on the plow still hasn't rusted and there is not a speck of rust on any part of the plow or any bolt, screw, hydraulic hose fitting, pin, spring, cylinder, etc. That stuff is great!
I’m a Woolwax and Fluid Film user. If The newcomer, Surface Shield, has been available when I started using lanolin I’d likely use it as well. Fluid Film is available at Walmart, for me that’s a plus (actually a minus since I get a discount😊). Woolwax was the first one to be available in black so I use it mainly on the underside because it just looks sweet when it’s fresh. Fluid Film goes everywhere “hidden” I’ll likely not switch from my current product and annual or as needed applications. Reason is these products just work and are not very costly for a DIYer. You keep doing what you do, you do it well.
I think your tests are pretty clear and fair. Good point on oil choice mirroring lanolin coating choice. It's about proper maintenance and application, the products are all pretty good.
Here is another solvent experiment. Expose different anti rust compounds to the air. Your Scientific Method is good enough to figure out the rest. Stay curious. Oooo. Merch with "Stay Curious" might be a good seller if no one else is using it. You are doing a great job. Keep it up.
I’ve used both Surface Prep & Fluid Film, and they work. Agree, SP is easier to spray, and a little thinner (creeps well). Most of the benefit is in thorough application. The first application is the most time & product consuming as every nook & cranny needs covered. But each year after that gets easier, I just hit the high splash areas. Both great.
We use fluid film in aviation on every part to prevent corrosion and I love this stuff, like you said before it will become more viscous after it's been applied and left for a few days especially in the cold
Congrats for your new job. We all need to put food on the table. Thanks for disclosing it, it proves once again your very high integrity. BTW, what a boss move with the torch! Finally, congrats to your new employer to be smart enough to hire great talent .
I just bought cans and ordered a pail on line. getting my new vehicle by the end of the month. Last vehicle so I want todo a good job of it. Thanks for your web page, it fixed that hole, so to speak lol Your an honest man. I respect that.I have tried them all, and it is time for 'Blaster'!
Thank you for another great review. I have you to thank for introducing me to Fluid Film and Surface Shield years ago. I bought a 2019 Honda Passport new. I coated it that summer after seeing your video's. I just went under it the other day and it looks great. Just light minor stuff, bracket bolts etc...that get road spray get a little iffy, but nothing major. Thanks again for all your testing and reviews!! Keep doing the reviews! I'd love to see a 7 year or more when that time comes.
The Surface Shield that I applied a year ago to my 4Runner undercarriage still looks good. I need to get it up on jack stands and put on another coat this year before the roads are salted. I just bought a 1996 Hijet mini truck from Japan where they apparently don't salt their roads. It has only minor surface corrosion on the frame. It's getting a good spray of Surface Shield before I drive it in any winter weather. Thanks for talking Blaster into a spray can nozzle that doesn't need an adapter for a spray wand to spray inside frames and body panels.
Holy smokes congratulations on the new career!!!! That’s awesome man. I love blaster products for sure. You have such an open mind with your videos. 👍🏼. !!
I am proud of you, you are a fine and smart young man dfoing a free service to all of us that are mislead by those companies claiming this and that. the proof is in the soup. Congrats , keep doing what you are doing you are doiung a great job. God Bless YOU.
Hey stop giving you dad a hard time about being video savy .lol . I took your advise and did my new f250 before last winter , couldn't be happier. Thank you . I grabbed 3 more cans for touch up before this winter , honestly it doesn't need it .👍 Surface Shield is
It's not about being video savvy. You don't hold a conversation with someone with your back turned 🤣. I'm sure he taught me that when I was young. I'm just holding him to the same standard that he taught me haha.
Congratulations. Well deserved. Excellent videos. Used surface shield on my 2015 King Ranch PowerStroke. Looked ok after 2 Upper Peninsula Winters and weekly car washes, it washed off rather quickly. Used the spray cans. 3 didn’t work. Counted it as a loss. I’ll be buying the 5gal bucket this year to spray my new Tacoma and a friends vehicles. Lesson learned on the cans. Thanks for the videos. I’ve turned a few folks onto surface shield. Just not the aerosol cans lol.
Love your common sense science approach and the very useful info you provide. Frame rust is car cancer. I hate it. I looked at a dozen used 4Runners in Cincinnati and they all had very rusted frames, spray painted black. I could poke the frame in the back with my finger and chunks of bubbled rust would flake off, held together by the fresh black paint. Frame rust is much worse in Ohio than it is here in central Kentucky and we salt and brine our roads quite a bit.
I have cut Fluid Film with old transmission and old gear oil. Seems to have held up quite well. I will say you should check out Pro Form oil based undercoating. It's made up of two major hydrocarbons, one of which is the same that Fluid Film is.
Holy mack I guess it's works! Look at how bad the exhaust corroded and no rust any were else. I know that exhausts rust quick. The exhaust look so rusty it shows how bad the conditions are, that these products perform and survive in. Nice! Buying some tomorrow.
in our area in NY state, we use a product called Rust Check...it has to be applied once a year but it works great....it is sprayed on the underside and into the doors and fenders and any inner panels......i had a 2005 Subaru Baja that i just sold in 2020 and it was 99% rust free and that was mostly minor surface rust on hidden areas or areas exposed to car washings....for a car that was 15 yrs old and looking as great as it did when I sold it, it was worth it for me....this product that you showed looks very promising too and I would love to see 10 yr and 15 yr follow ups....great video
I tested rust check out on the telephone pole. My results weren't good but, my pole testing test JUST the product. On an undercarriage it's going to collect dirt as well but that adds another variable to a test. If it works for you... Use it. 👍
Do you wash/power water your undercarriage every time you reapply your product every year. Also for winter management do you wash or power wash the undercarriage every winter when it gets really salty under there.
Thanks for the video, I wish I had come across your videos a couple years ago when I bought my new 2021 Jeep Wrangler. Now I will have to wait till spring or summer to do all my vehicles since I'm in NE Indiana & don't work on vehicles in the winter anymore, unless I have to.
Congratulations on your job. You are right not to do your pickup every year I have been coat mine 17 years it gets to messy .I scraped some off last year.
Sooooo..........thanks to your video and review of "Surface Shield," I undercoated my 2019 Impala with Surface Shield today. Took about six cans, probably could have done it with less, but sometimes I get carried away. LOL!!! Next year, I'm going to purchase a paint spray kit and purchase a five gallon bucket of the stuff. .....and I live in NE Indiana, so I feel your pain when it comes to crap weather and salt eating away our vehicles.
I've got a 2014 ford f150 bought new and rust checked every year, no rust and I live in the rust and salt belt. It messy if you need to work on it but rather that than a rust bucket. Still looks and runs like new.
I will say pb blaster is always my go to for penetrating oil for all my repairs in Maine. I was using woolwax undercoating but I hate having to heat it, and getting it is kind of a pain compared to FF black at napa. I would use surface shield but I don't want to play around with making it black, and I don't want to breathe it in with the added chemicals. Granted I wear a respirator but as everyone that sprays commercially knows it lingers for awhile
@@alb12345672 yes town roads use a sand and salt mix, and the state roads use a salt and calcium mix. Horrible on vehicles around here, they rot out within 10-15 years if not undercoated regularly.
@@frankhartford5194 Sounds like rustproofing is a necessity.No sand in used in NY but it is still pretty bad. And the inspections seems strict there too. In NY, not so much, there could be rust to the door handles but as long as the suspension attachment points on the frame are ok.
in australia alot of people are using "4wdetail Chassis Shield" it dosnt have Lanolin in it and they claim its better than Lanolin but i havent seen anyone compare the 2, have you heard of it or got an opinion on it?
Seems like the surface shield sticks better to the truck underbody, but it also seems like debris sticks to the surface shield better than it does fluid film. I think those are leaves and dirt mixed into the surface shield. Fluid film stays a bit cleaner.
Most tube steps have no drain holes in them for condensation. You MUST drill weep holes if you want them to last. First time I did this a quart of water came out of one.
I just got a gallon of Surface Shield. Pricey.... I only had to do minimal recoat after using a couple of cans last year. The stuff is good. Every year I have to spray less and less, but there are spots that need to be shot. I will spray the inside of the frame with FF next year. The only obvious spots I needed are from rock chips. Look at the MSDS for each product FF and SS. They are very similar except SS has petroleum jelly. SS has less offensive odor as well. I can see applications for both products and will continue to use both. Thank you for your video on these products, or my 4runner would be out there rusting away.
Great content. Congrats on the new career path! Coming from NY and now central OH, anything is better than nothing. Blaster is on my list of next products to use on my 19 JLU and 90 MJ.
For areas that get blasted, I’ve had good results with honey goo by kleen flo. My fender well/mud flap bolts are hard to keep fluid film/rust check etc on. The honey goo stays put. Check it out and see what you think!
I like the honesty here.. and I must say my surface shield spraying form last November still looks wet on the side and needs a little touch up here and there on front crossmembers..and few other spots and i plan on giving it a good catch- up spraying in a couple weeks. Wish I could go check out SEMA ! I agree with you about not believing everything and putting things to the test !
Congrats on the new opportunity! I’m sold on Surface Shield here in Maine. Now having your new position, I’m thinking you’ll be able to answer this one for me. Has Blaster come out with any long spray nozzles for their cans? I’d like to reach into sections of my frame rails that are tough to get to. Happy New Year! ✌🏻
Appreciate your honesty. Any treatment with lanolin based products to rust belt vehicles is going to help prolong the damage done by municipal ice treatment products.
Glad I stumbled onto your channel. I have a 2015 Tahoe and live in SE Ohio (Marietta area). I'm at right 190k mile's and need to coat my Tahoe in something. The factory wax like coating is worn off in a lot of spots. I'd like to touch it up and also spray stuff into the rockers and inner fenders etc.
You’re just being honest fella and true to yourself. That’s the only person you need to be true to. Best of luck with your new career move. 👍🏼✌🏻🍷🏴🇺🇸.
1) do you spray in the door jams and hinges? Donyou make holes in the doors jams like krown does? 2) how are your reaults with surface shield on rubber trim? There was some boticeable trim damage from constant contact with fluid film 3) if surface shield stays on much better than fluid film under pressure washer.... if it creeps onto the exrerior paint, can it be removed for cosmetic reasons?
I had to laugh when you put the torch to that Lanolin. If you have ever seen a fire at a wool store or a shearing shed where the lanolin gets into the timber I don't think you would do that. However it looks like the stuff to use and I have used it to protect machined surfaces, some very highly finished and never been disappointed. Different brand but basically the same ingredients.
Can anyone tell me if these lanolin based products swell the door rubbers? Can you apply over petroleum based products or should that be cleaned off first? Where I live they use a salt brine instead of rock salt, so we need to really take care of our vehicles.
@@RepairGeek I guessed by the starter noise it’s quite hard to tell the difference regarding the motor because the only difference really is the displacement
I noticed your dads exhaust was rusty. What I do is with new steel pipes is clean with Breakcleen, then primer, then high temp(1400 deg) header paint. It stays soft until it gets hot, then it hardens. It looks good and lasts a long time.
Edit 11/4/22 Going forward Surface shield will have a female top on the aerosol cans like the other products that are out in the market. This means the grafitti adapter is no longer required to attach the inner cavity tool to the aerosol can. As of now both the male and female cans are on store shelves. Just something to watch for.
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I just tried surface shield for the first time this past weekend on some round frame rails before putting caps on the end Inside the wheel wells. I picked up 10 cans from Harbor Frieght and to my surprise I got 7 cans with a male end, and 3 cans with the new female end. I wasn't aware of Blaster making this change, so I had already purchased a cavity coating wand made by 3M that accepts the male end cans. Now I'll have to buy another wand for these new style cans. I'm curious, have you verified that the KBS coating wand works with the new female surface shield cans? Or have you sprayed it with the KBS wand and the graffiti adapter?
thanks for this update! do you know if the product on Amazon is being sold with male vs female currently?
I have no idea what stock Amazon has on hand. I know the newer stuff that is heading out the door is female.
The KBS for a fact works. I literally bought every single cavity adapter on amazon and tried them all.
Will they ever be available in Canada? We need it the most!
Dude, I busted your chops in the past and you proved results with your data. Appreciate your videos! Don’t be entertained by the haters, keep producing great content!
Trolls give me content.
@@RepairGeek Challenge accepted! 😎
J/K, excellent channel!
That thing looks amazing! I just had my truck done with NH Oil this weekend. I plan on keeping up with it and I hope to get the same results. Great series of videos. Thanks for sharing.
I live in the rust belt and I'm trying to make my 2021 tundra last 15 to 20 years. I've sprayed a heavy coat of fluid film every year and it's absolutely spotless! I'll keep it up every year.👍
Yeah, I've heard that it never truly washes all the way off. There's always a microscopic layer left in the pores of the metal.
Major respect for what you’re doing here with the channel, and loved the “stay curious” bit as it really separates the marketing and claims from reality. Congrats on the position with B’Laster!
I watched a lot of undercoating review to settle on which product o was going to offer in my business. I've sprayed both WW and FF and found WW to be better for long term adhesion. I've not tried Blaster mainly because of the cost but from what I've gathered is Blaster is essentially the same as FF and WW but has petroleum jelly added to increase its longevity. When I do undercoating I spray thick. Usually 1.5 to 2 gal for a truck. I also spray everything including the floor pans and bottom of the bed. On my second year I had a few repeat customers and was beginning to think they weren't satisfied and went elsewhere. That wasn't the case at all. They simply saw that it didn't need another coat. Again, thanks for your honest reviews.
I drive a 19’ Toyota Tundra and i live in Erie Pennsylvania. I don’t care what you drive around here, you must undercoat!.. i have black fluid film applied every October and i still have “No rust, at all” …. All the stuff they put on the roads be it salt, brine, sand, cinders will eat an untreated vehicle alive in no time. Protect your investment. 😊
I had my 4Runner sprayed for the third year in a row. When I went to pick it up they asked, “have you been driving this truck at all? It looks new.” Thank you for all of the informative videos on this topic. 👍🏻
Curious what you’ve been spraying it with? Blaster or FF? Thanks!
@@rangerjonoutdoors6429 Fluid film.
I live in central NY land of salt, brine and sand+gravel dumped on roads thru winter. I just purchased my first NEW vehicle in 44 years. I coated it with fluid film and will diligently keep coating it. Thanks for your work and unbiased information all the best to you.
I heat the Woolwax to about 180* and blast inside all the frame holes. It comes out so fine that you can actually see plumes of W.W. mist come out in all other areas of the frame, far away from where I am actually spraying. This ensures that the inside of the frame is coated as well. Great videos!
Hey I used a product called Waxoyl . They have underbody and cavity products and instructions indicated to place in hot bucket of water then pour into spray gun for best results coating and creeping into pinch welds and inner sheet metal.
I have a 86 D21 that was parked for 20+ years, it has taken some research to get it back on the road and while learning about rust I found your channel. Thanks to your testing and advice I have applied Surface Shield liberally. Thank you for the help.
Congrats on the new job. You and research and development team should open up shops in the midwest. Like a jiffy lube or tires plus. That would be a game changer. Who wouldn't love to have a shop who can under coat a vehicle with a good product.
My shoulders can't do it all day every day. I tried doing like 3 cars a day for a week this year. By the end of the week my shoulders were tore up from holding the spray gun over my head for literally hours a day.
Should develop a bungee setup for assisting with that. I’m happy with this product. I did my truck for the first time last fall. It’s a game changer alright!
Tell blaster to put a better spray nozzle on the spray cans, had issues spraying it this weekend, product was indoors before I used it and it was 70 degrees outside and kept the can shook up, had to remove and reinstall the nozzle multiple times. I like the product so far, they need to get more of it out there it was kinda hard to find, thanks for listening
I just had my new Outback undercoated with Fluid Film. I ran out of time to do it myself, so I had another company do it. I wanted to use Surface Shield based on your results but I could not find any dealers. I realize it is a new product, but Blaster needs to have an online list of applicators once the product gets more established.
Really appreciate this content. It takes a huge amount of energy and resources to make a vehicle. Anyone who promotes protecting these vehicles from corrosion so they last as long as possible is doing a great service to people and the environment. I have lots of experience with fluid film and I found it washed off too easily (salt/snow belt Ontario), and it is expensive. I also have experience with "annual dripless underbody oil" from Carquest. I can get a 5 g bail for the same cost of 1g fluid film. This stuff is 100% dripless and seems to last longer although it's likely toxic compared to lanolin.
I have a 2015 crv. I’ve fluid filmed it since it was 2 months old. I live about 45 minutes from you. I’m dead sold on either product. I love that your proving over and over is you can have a rust free car anywhere if you just take the time and do what you do. I drive 76 everyday so it’s brutal on the salt spray. Great video man !!!!!
I absolutely love fluid film. Your video of the two Chevy work trucks side by side sold me. Just coated my Honda for the winter as I am in Ohio also. Thanks for your honesty on everything. Makes it easier for guys like me to pick a route that has been proven in the past as far as undercoatings go. Keep up the great work sir and good luck on the new job!
I'd love to have my truck coated with Surface Shield, but I'm just not able to do it myself! I hope Blaster will work to get a dealer network set up where people can take vehicles to be coated.
by the stuff and pay someone with an undercoating gun to do it, or pay somebody to do it with aerosol cans.
We all have personal needs that we have to take care of first, ie mortgage, rent, car payments, children, credit cards, cell phones etc. With that being said you do what you have to do! Your the reason I started coating my 2005 Ford excursion with wool wax. This is my second year and I really like the results. I only choose wool wax because I wanted black undercoating. I live in SD and I drive nationwide for work ( Wildland firefighter) I drive on a ton of dirt roads, the product holds up! Thank you for taking time to do the research, film, edit and post this video. You keep testing I'll keep watching and make my decision based off information given.
Thanks for the update. Keep us informed. U can still do w/blaster. And good for u on a new career! It's smart! 👍🇺🇸
Mad respect for you brother! Way to stand up for what’s right.
I live in Norway and so it snowes a lot, and in the “big“ city’s they salt but if u buy a car from where we don’t salt u will see a biiiig difference on cars from where we salt to where we don’t, so judging something like this to protect from salt it makes big difference. Love ur vids
I live in the rust belt eastern Canada 🇨🇦 PEI and this channel is amazing with true results/testing 👍
Great job. I just had my new F150 coated thoroughly with Surface Shield by a true professional when it come to undercoating 😉. Can’t wait to see the results after a Cleveland winter. Definitely will follow your recommendation and have it done again next year.
I live in the Salt Belt and started using Woolwax when I got my 07 Silverado from Texas about 3 years ago. All our cars get a treatment every May and touch-ups in October. I even spray over the rust and it slows down or stops further rust. You can even spray inside frame channels. Advice: if you use an air compressor, put an air dryer between the compressor and your air gun, otherwise you may be trapping moisture inside the Woolwax. Also warm the quart jugs in the sun (or in hot water if you live in the northeast where the sun doesn't exist) to make it flow better.
I like the flammability test you did, keep the great work. I use both fluid film and blaster. I use fluid film on non-washed areas and blaster on washed areas. I confirmed also after a year that the blaster was still on my bolts around my wheel wells. Thanks for all of your reviews. God bless you and your family!!!!!!!
What were the results of that test?
I have a 1986 Ford Bronco that I plan to restore. The only reason that I got it is that its frame is still in great shape with only minor spots of surface rust. There are some areas on the axles covered in oil and road dust; under the oily layer the axle has its original paint intact.. It seems the wet coatings is the way to go...
Awesome results I’ve been following your channel for awhile. I have a 2002 Chevy Tracker that I bought here in Michigan pretty rusty being on a budget I made my own undercoating out of toilet wax rings, bar and chain oil, boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits to thin it. After two years and two treatments it’s held up very well and the cost is significantly less. I wish I had the means to do a in-depth results video like yours that being said I’d like to see you do one with a homemade undercoating like mine.
I just put on surface shield today 6-23-23 on my new 2022 GMC Canyon i'll see this time next year how well it works I just got finished 2 hours ago I'm trying because you said its some good stuff great Videos.
I put 2 coats, back to back to insure coverage when new of fluid film and the underside is fine after 9 years!! I only recoat a litte when I do brake work or similar to replace wiped off film. Same on my pickup in 2020 and it is perfect.
Surface Shield looks good. I had similar results using AMSOIL HD MP. I put two coats on a new Tacoma and 8 years later (in OHIO) no rust!
Down side of AMSOIL, they don't sell bulk. It only comes in 15oz spray cans and it's hard to find.
can you not buy the Amsoil in Bulk from their website and associated dealers for a discount? that is one product i have yet to try in western Iowa
I coated my entire snowplow including the frame and everything mounted to it 2 years ago with Surface Shield shortly after buying the plow. I have a deep scratch on the front of plow just above the cutting edge. The only thing I've sprayed on it since is the front of plow which gets most of the abuse from grit and salt. That scratch that's on the plow still hasn't rusted and there is not a speck of rust on any part of the plow or any bolt, screw, hydraulic hose fitting, pin, spring, cylinder, etc. That stuff is great!
I love your content involving rust prevention/testing/fluid film/surface shield… Many blessings bro
I’m a Woolwax and Fluid Film user. If The newcomer, Surface Shield, has been available when I started using lanolin I’d likely use it as well. Fluid Film is available at Walmart, for me that’s a plus (actually a minus since I get a discount😊). Woolwax was the first one to be available in black so I use it mainly on the underside because it just looks sweet when it’s fresh. Fluid Film goes everywhere “hidden”
I’ll likely not switch from my current product and annual or as needed applications. Reason is these products just work and are not very costly for a DIYer.
You keep doing what you do, you do it well.
I think your tests are pretty clear and fair. Good point on oil choice mirroring lanolin coating choice. It's about proper maintenance and application, the products are all pretty good.
Here is another solvent experiment. Expose different anti rust compounds to the air. Your Scientific Method is good enough to figure out the rest. Stay curious. Oooo. Merch with "Stay Curious" might be a good seller if no one else is using it. You are doing a great job. Keep it up.
I’ve used both Surface Prep & Fluid Film, and they work. Agree, SP is easier to spray, and a little thinner (creeps well). Most of the benefit is in thorough application. The first application is the most time & product consuming as every nook & cranny needs covered. But each year after that gets easier, I just hit the high splash areas. Both great.
Thx for the video. These products flat out work. I’ve been using them since 2007, before that, hydraulic fluid.
We use fluid film in aviation on every part to prevent corrosion and I love this stuff, like you said before it will become more viscous after it's been applied and left for a few days especially in the cold
Congrats for your new job. We all need to put food on the table.
Thanks for disclosing it, it proves once again your very high integrity.
BTW, what a boss move with the torch!
Finally, congrats to your new employer to be smart enough to hire great talent .
Congratulations on your new job , i appreciate your honesty and i will continue to watch your videos.
I just bought cans and ordered a pail on line. getting my new vehicle by the end of the month. Last vehicle so I want todo a good job of it. Thanks for your web page, it fixed that hole, so to speak lol
Your an honest man. I respect that.I have tried them all, and it is time for 'Blaster'!
Thank you for another great review. I have you to thank for introducing me to Fluid Film and Surface Shield years ago. I bought a 2019 Honda Passport new. I coated it that summer after seeing your video's. I just went under it the other day and it looks great. Just light minor stuff, bracket bolts etc...that get road spray get a little iffy, but nothing major. Thanks again for all your testing and reviews!! Keep doing the reviews! I'd love to see a 7 year or more when that time comes.
The Surface Shield that I applied a year ago to my 4Runner undercarriage still looks good. I need to get it up on jack stands and put on another coat this year before the roads are salted. I just bought a 1996 Hijet mini truck from Japan where they apparently don't salt their roads. It has only minor surface corrosion on the frame. It's getting a good spray of Surface Shield before I drive it in any winter weather. Thanks for talking Blaster into a spray can nozzle that doesn't need an adapter for a spray wand to spray inside frames and body panels.
Glad this was the first thing I applied to my 4runner when I purchased it new.
Boss move with the torch. Dealers always make up lies to attract customers.
Holy smokes congratulations on the new career!!!! That’s awesome man. I love blaster products for sure. You have such an open mind with your videos. 👍🏼. !!
I am proud of you, you are a fine and smart young man dfoing a free service to all of us that are mislead by those companies claiming this and that. the proof is in the soup. Congrats , keep doing what you are doing you are doiung a great job.
God Bless YOU.
Hey stop giving you dad a hard time about being video savy .lol . I took your advise and did my new f250 before last winter , couldn't be happier. Thank you . I grabbed 3 more cans for touch up before this winter , honestly it doesn't need it .👍 Surface Shield is
It's not about being video savvy. You don't hold a conversation with someone with your back turned 🤣. I'm sure he taught me that when I was young. I'm just holding him to the same standard that he taught me haha.
Congratulations. Well deserved. Excellent videos. Used surface shield on my 2015 King Ranch PowerStroke. Looked ok after 2 Upper Peninsula Winters and weekly car washes, it washed off rather quickly. Used the spray cans. 3 didn’t work. Counted it as a loss. I’ll be buying the 5gal bucket this year to spray my new Tacoma and a friends vehicles. Lesson learned on the cans. Thanks for the videos. I’ve turned a few folks onto surface shield. Just not the aerosol cans lol.
I did recently switch to surface shield and I'm not going back. Thanks again.
I wonder if it would be possible to remove rust from a car by spraying with rust remover gel and letting it sit on for a couple of days.
like some sort of Acid??
Love your common sense science approach and the very useful info you provide. Frame rust is car cancer. I hate it. I looked at a dozen used 4Runners in Cincinnati and they all had very rusted frames, spray painted black. I could poke the frame in the back with my finger and chunks of bubbled rust would flake off, held together by the fresh black paint. Frame rust is much worse in Ohio than it is here in central Kentucky and we salt and brine our roads quite a bit.
Great callout anyone with a fair amount of common sense will watch you and know your honesty is real honest it’s easy sniffing out the hater’s
Keep up the good work and do not worry about the negative comments , you are fair and honest in all your videos. Thank You for all you do.
What about the inner doors, did you do them plus did it show up on your windows after rolling them down?
I have cut Fluid Film with old transmission and old gear oil. Seems to have held up quite well. I will say you should check out Pro Form oil based undercoating. It's made up of two major hydrocarbons, one of which is the same that Fluid Film is.
Thank you for the updates! Good /luck with your new endeavors!
Congratulations!! Good for you.See folks you don't have to yell and jump up and down to get recognized.
Holy mack I guess it's works! Look at how bad the exhaust corroded and no rust any were else. I know that exhausts rust quick. The exhaust look so rusty it shows how bad the conditions are, that these products perform and survive in. Nice! Buying some tomorrow.
I would stick to fluid film, works great for me in Europe since over 10 years, 10 years with absolutely no rust
Thanks for the annual review. Good luck with the new job. Thanks for being honest
in our area in NY state, we use a product called Rust Check...it has to be applied once a year but it works great....it is sprayed on the underside and into the doors and fenders and any inner panels......i had a 2005 Subaru Baja that i just sold in 2020 and it was 99% rust free and that was mostly minor surface rust on hidden areas or areas exposed to car washings....for a car that was 15 yrs old and looking as great as it did when I sold it, it was worth it for me....this product that you showed looks very promising too and I would love to see 10 yr and 15 yr follow ups....great video
I tested rust check out on the telephone pole. My results weren't good but, my pole testing test JUST the product. On an undercarriage it's going to collect dirt as well but that adds another variable to a test. If it works for you... Use it. 👍
Yes, I also use Rust Check for many years here in Canada and it is fantastic!
@@astrogate1 I have used rust check in Canada and it was useless, more and more rust each year. I had it sprayed professionally.
Do you wash/power water your undercarriage every time you reapply your product every year. Also for winter management do you wash or power wash the undercarriage every winter when it gets really salty under there.
I wish those products were available in central europe, it seems like we are so far behind when it comes to undercarriage protection.
do you use used motor oil or something of the sorts?
Thanks for the video, I wish I had come across your videos a couple years ago when I bought my new 2021 Jeep Wrangler. Now I will have to wait till spring or summer to do all my vehicles since I'm in NE Indiana & don't work on vehicles in the winter anymore, unless I have to.
Congratulations on your job. You are right not to do your pickup every year I have been coat mine 17 years it gets to messy .I scraped some off last year.
Sooooo..........thanks to your video and review of "Surface Shield," I undercoated my 2019 Impala with Surface Shield today. Took about six cans, probably could have done it with less, but sometimes I get carried away. LOL!!! Next year, I'm going to purchase a paint spray kit and purchase a five gallon bucket of the stuff. .....and I live in NE Indiana, so I feel your pain when it comes to crap weather and salt eating away our vehicles.
I've got a 2014 ford f150 bought new and rust checked every year, no rust and I live in the rust and salt belt. It messy if you need to work on it but rather that than a rust bucket. Still looks and runs like new.
I will say pb blaster is always my go to for penetrating oil for all my repairs in Maine. I was using woolwax undercoating but I hate having to heat it, and getting it is kind of a pain compared to FF black at napa. I would use surface shield but I don't want to play around with making it black, and I don't want to breathe it in with the added chemicals. Granted I wear a respirator but as everyone that sprays commercially knows it lingers for awhile
Does Maine sand roads? I got a truck from Maine and it was full of sand in the frame. Maybe it was driven on the beach.
@@alb12345672 yes town roads use a sand and salt mix, and the state roads use a salt and calcium mix. Horrible on vehicles around here, they rot out within 10-15 years if not undercoated regularly.
@@frankhartford5194 Sounds like rustproofing is a necessity.No sand in used in NY but it is still pretty bad. And the inspections seems strict there too. In NY, not so much, there could be rust to the door handles but as long as the suspension attachment points on the frame are ok.
Just sprayed 2 trucks today in surface shield.thanks for the great videos
in australia alot of people are using "4wdetail Chassis Shield" it dosnt have Lanolin in it and they claim its better than Lanolin but i havent seen anyone compare the 2, have you heard of it or got an opinion on it?
Congratulations on your new job! You have an excellent channel thank you!
Seems like the surface shield sticks better to the truck underbody, but it also seems like debris sticks to the surface shield better than it does fluid film. I think those are leaves and dirt mixed into the surface shield. Fluid film stays a bit cleaner.
Love your honesty and content .. Thank You
Just did the underside and frame of my 41 year old Chevy truck. Going to get another 41 years out of it.
Your videos are A+! Thank you!
Most tube steps have no drain holes in them for condensation. You MUST drill weep holes if you want them to last. First time I did this a quart of water came out of one.
I just got a gallon of Surface Shield. Pricey.... I only had to do minimal recoat after using a couple of cans last year. The stuff is good. Every year I have to spray less and less, but there are spots that need to be shot. I will spray the inside of the frame with FF next year. The only obvious spots I needed are from rock chips. Look at the MSDS for each product FF and SS. They are very similar except SS has petroleum jelly. SS has less offensive odor as well. I can see applications for both products and will continue to use both. Thank you for your video on these products, or my 4runner would be out there rusting away.
Great content. Congrats on the new career path! Coming from NY and now central OH, anything is better than nothing. Blaster is on my list of next products to use on my 19 JLU and 90 MJ.
For areas that get blasted, I’ve had good results with honey goo by kleen flo. My fender well/mud flap bolts are hard to keep fluid film/rust check etc on. The honey goo stays put. Check it out and see what you think!
Fluid Film is the best American invention since peanut butter.
@@PrometricUSA 🤣
@@PrometricUSA peanut better sucks for breakfast
I like the honesty here.. and I must say my surface shield spraying form last November still looks wet on the side and needs a little touch up here and there on front crossmembers..and few other spots and i plan on giving it a good catch- up spraying in a couple weeks. Wish I could go check out SEMA ! I agree with you about not believing everything and putting things to the test !
Congrats on the new opportunity! I’m sold on Surface Shield here in Maine. Now having your new position, I’m thinking you’ll be able to answer this one for me. Has Blaster come out with any long spray nozzles for their cans? I’d like to reach into sections of my frame rails that are tough to get to. Happy New Year! ✌🏻
Not at this time no.
@@RepairGeek Bummin
Appreciate your honesty. Any treatment with lanolin based products to rust belt vehicles is going to help prolong the damage done by municipal ice treatment products.
Glad I stumbled onto your channel. I have a 2015 Tahoe and live in SE Ohio (Marietta area). I'm at right 190k mile's and need to coat my Tahoe in something. The factory wax like coating is worn off in a lot of spots. I'd like to touch it up and also spray stuff into the rockers and inner fenders etc.
Good luck on your new life path. Godspeed.
You’re just being honest fella and true to yourself. That’s the only person you need to be true to. Best of luck with your new career move. 👍🏼✌🏻🍷🏴🇺🇸.
1) do you spray in the door jams and hinges? Donyou make holes in the doors jams like krown does?
2) how are your reaults with surface shield on rubber trim? There was some boticeable trim damage from constant contact with fluid film
3) if surface shield stays on much better than fluid film under pressure washer.... if it creeps onto the exrerior paint, can it be removed for cosmetic reasons?
This stuff is a must in the salt belt to protect such an expensive purchase.
Usually just touch ups are necessary after the first coat. As long as you get inside the frame good.
Fantastic, I look forward to this every year!
You are very smart to out your self. - I don't think you should stop the comparison on your personal channel
Comparisons aren't going anywhere. B'laster comparisons are going away.
I had to laugh when you put the torch to that Lanolin. If you have ever seen a fire at a wool store or a shearing shed where the lanolin gets into the timber I don't think you would do that. However it looks like the stuff to use and I have used it to protect machined surfaces, some very highly finished and never been disappointed. Different brand but basically the same ingredients.
Well, wood burns... 😆
@@RepairGeek Indeed it does but add a bit of lanolin and it really intensifies.👍
3'27" you can see some rust and flakes on bolts, etc, but pretty sure it's where you didn't spray in the past... Looks good!
Can anyone tell me if these lanolin based products swell the door rubbers? Can you apply over petroleum based products or should that be cleaned off first? Where I live they use a salt brine instead of rock salt, so we need to really take care of our vehicles.
it may swell? i used a product from Canada that did nearly 500$ damage in that area and not happy since the bottle label said SAFE for rubber
I like how their music is a 5.4 triton starting. The best sound on earth
4.6 actually but you literally couldn't be any closer with a guess lol
@@RepairGeek I guessed by the starter noise it’s quite hard to tell the difference regarding the motor because the only difference really is the displacement
@3:25 It does look like there was some rust where water constantly pools up inside the lower control arm.
God Bless You. Stay Curious on Everything In Life.
I noticed your dads exhaust was rusty. What I do is with new steel pipes is clean with Breakcleen, then primer, then high temp(1400 deg) header paint. It stays soft until it gets hot, then it hardens. It looks good and lasts a long time.
I'm going to test a solution this winter. I want to see how it's going to hold up before posting the video.
Congrats on the new job! Had to look it up, hadn't realized how close to Akron Blaster was located.
Oh shit same