Decided to do somethin g about my dirty undercarriage
Been wanting to do this for a while now and started off as a test on my wife's impreza as hers is an import and as such no underseal or protection from our harsher climate and penchant for salting the roads. So looked into Lanoguard and bought enough to do two cars.
Her car is absolutely mint underneath ( namely because we keep it SORN over the winter and under cover ) but it was still dirty . So using an underbody lance extension on my Kranzle and some APC/degreaser soon cleaned everything up nicely. Then a liberal coating of Lanoguard and it now, after a week, has a lovely layer of protection. Now onto the RS. A bit more involved as this car has more undertrays than any car I have had before ( one is even missing ) so off they came first and got thoroughly cleaned up.
At this point ( and only on the RS ) I discovered a new undertray ( top left in this photo ) which is not on my S Line but of course it hides the DRC system.. that was interesting to find.
Car had been jacked up by the diff at this point so gave a ton of access under there.
Then the repeat of cleaning and jet wash and the air blower to remove any water hiding and to get it dry for the Lanoguard. Really easy to apply with the extended spray nozzle and gave it a damn good coating. Motor grease applied with a brush on any rust prone areas . All undertrays refitted and car left to cure for a few days. Then jacked up the front and did under the engine and suspension/gearbox etc.
Should be good for 10 months or so.
Next job will be to remove the side skirts/blades as they are another area of grime build up but thats for another day.
And at some point I will tackle the S Line and do the same.