Preventing Rust formation (1 Viewer)

[Spirits]

Hi,

If you scratch your car while reversing or something, and its a pretty deep sratch, but you don't have money to fix it, is there any thing you can do to stop rust from forming where you scratched it?

Cheers.

 

[Providence.]

Hi,

If you scratch your car while reversing or something, and its a pretty deep sratch, but you don't have money to fix it, is there any thing you can do to stop rust from forming where you scratched it?

Cheers.

Rust is an electrochemical process involving the reduction of water and oxygen. You can prevent further rusting by painting the rust site or using a more reactive metal than iron (or the metal rusting) such as zinc or aluminium to cover the site.

 

[SipSip]

Rust is an electrochemical process involving the reduction of water and oxygen. You can prevent further rusting by painting the rust site or using a more reactive metal than iron (or the metal rusting) such as zinc or aluminium to cover the site.

I agree, but it is quite hard to find aluminium to paint onto the car.

Where did you buy the car? If it's from a dealer, they normally have some touch up paint that you can get from them. Otherwise you might want to see whether any of your friends have touch up paint; once you put it on evenly, let it dry and then polish that area, should help at least a bit

 

[CieL]

Random thought.
Would clear nail polish work?

 

[cuppas]

i hope you didnt just leave that bare metal unprotected while you were waiting for the most helpful forum reply

 

[mr_brightside]

Keep your hand pressed up against it.

 

[^CoSMic DoRiS^^]

Random thought.
Would clear nail polish work?

don't know. it may, if you used enough. i think you'd have to use a lot.