Wassup guys hope your having a good weekend. I just wanted to ask a question regarding the undercarriage on a 2004 Gt. I used to have a camry and a altima and they had this black paint sort of coating on the undercarriage for protection but the mustang doesn't. It just has normal paint. Is this normal? safe? will it just rust to hell?

Thanks

 

in areas that see heavy snow and resulting salted roads, not having an undercoat can allow rust to start. The undercoating you see schmeared around passenger cars and imports is normally intended more for sound deadening than any rust inhibition.

The bottom of the mustang chassis is painted so that will provide much of the rust proofing that a cruddy undercoating would.

If you want an undercoating they usually offer you one when you're haggling the final price of your mustang, along with the extended useless warranty and pine tree stink bombs and gap insurance.

 

Thanks bro, so your saying I dont need to do anything to it right?

 

I'm saying no such thing... you could be driving through a pit of acid every day and I (and possibly you) wouldn't even know it. But you shouldn't need any kind of undercoating unless you live in an area where there's heavy salt or other corrosive influence. Coastal areas, heavy snow areas, akaline salt flats (Salt Lake City), dry lakebed duty, etc.. are all things that might justify an undercoating. Most people get away without it and never have any rust to speak of. This is why california cars are very popular when it comes to classics... there's no salt on most of our roads. they usually use sand or plows in our snow-prone areas.

 

yeah I live in Atlanta so I dont think I have a problem. Thanks