Mechanic Reacts to Rust Disasters
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
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WHERE IS SANDROOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Fixing rust holes in eg hatches
It's okay, we got Suppy Instead.
He rusted away😂
Where is November?!? 😢
The boys are mad
"ive never leaf blowered a horse before" - Suppy Japinch
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He honestly looked like he was considering trying it, too.
I laughed my ass off
Oddly enough, livestock blowers are a thing and they're pretty much just an electric leaf blower. I've lived on a beef farm my whole life, and we use them on show cattle after washing them to dry/fluff their hair.
Nobody leafblows a horse like the Kentucky Cobra. 🐍
"Patina Turner" and "Patina Fay" were fucking hilarious.
They were on par with some ok dad jokes 🎉
Gonna call mine Patina Belcher
12:00. To be fair, ships use a small DC current on their hull to help prevent corrosion. It's the same principle. Biggest difference is that ships have sacrificial anodes that corrode away so the steel doesn't, and, on most days, ships are in water.
The current had to be closed to work , line when they are in water , in cars wouldn't work do to the rubber tires , you had to be parking in water to work
@norbertszekeres867 and that's specifically why I said what I did about the ships being in water. Lol
Sandro and suppy would be the funniest combo...
Didn't that happen last video?
@@amogusenjoyer yeah it did before the comp video
Regardless - Brett gots to GO, lol. Dude's a Dunning Kruger poster boy.
On an unrelated note, I can't wait to get in a buddy's car and compliment his DONGar. 😄
Sandro WITHOUT Suppy would be way better. The Supmiester grates on my nerves.
@@leeboss6631 how is he a DK poster boy? What did he say that wasn't true?
Important note: Cars stored on concrete rust from the bottom up, too, in climates with large temperature swings. The concrete will sweat, and the moisture will eat the car just like it would on grass.
Edit: I’m not saying it’s worse or even as bad ass grass, just saying it can still rot a car out form underneath, just like grass can. Concrete is the better of the two options but what you really need is a moisture barrier and/or a climate controlled storage space.
similar for vehicles parked on grass.
But cars stored IN concrete don't rust
There will be no grass under a car if you let it sit for a while. It dies because it does not get sunshine.
@@valije so will never rust after the grass dies? right?
@@valije The moisture in the soil will still kill a car.
hol' up.
my man's out there souping up a Nissan Quest enough to _break it in half_ and we're just gonna let that slide? mad props.
I think he embellished his story a bit, seems like that kinda guy
You stupid or you dumb? It broke from rust
@@dominicrichardson5546definitely not embellished. Ive known him for about a decade and thats the kind of person he is. If it can be fast and its cheap he says f-it.
I mean he DID say it snapped in half from the rust lol
Nice to see a fellow Kansas in one of your Videos. Even though he is from Manhattan and I am from Wichita still nice to see. Love all your guys's videos keep up the good work.
For sure, didn't expect to see someone on here from where I live!
As someone who is from Wichita and went to KSU, I feel represented
Northern Canada here, it is funny watching people from California talk about road salt and how to prevent rust. 😂 Up here we spray our vehicles with oil annually. The first treatment involves drilling holes in panels like the doors so that the oil can be sprayed in and on all surfaces. These holes are plugged and reopened for each annual treatment. 🎉 Fun times! Companies like Krown do this service.
The recommendation to use acetone was pretty comical
I’m in Canada too, I was surprised this was not mentioned!
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Yeah it's always hilarious seeing anybody from California or really anywhere where it doesn't snow complain about rust
I've had really good luck using a combination of a rust converter product called Coraseal rust preventative oil-based tractor paint and bed liner
Its not just canada I live in Chicago Illinois. I spray the underside my car with oil every winter. Beacause of salt
So cathodic protection is a process where you can protect buried pipes and such from corroding with electric current. But in order for it to work you need sacrificial anodes and they need to be in the same electrolyte solution (ground water and soil for example). This essentially works like electroplating where the metal from the sacrificial anode coats/replaces the pipe and gets corroded first (this is a much slower process but similar idea). That being said I have no idea how the electric corrosion control here will work as you don't have a completed circuit in an electrolyte solution with some other piece of sacrificial metal.
Most modern navies use the same system for their ships, and it's used on bridges.
Ships use it in salt water
Cathodic protection is exactly the real type of protection that they are trying to mimic. Just running a current through the car is not going to do anything.
This!!!
I work in the petroleum industry and unprotected steel tanks have cathodic protection with sacrificial anodes. The anodes are key.
Im a mechanic in Rutland, VT...the amount of salt on the roads every year is seemiongly intentionally destructive.
Every day I fight every bolt under vehicles. I can only imagine how easy it must be to be a mechanic southwest, imagine not having to use a torch to get just about every nut off a vehicle thats older than 3 years of use.
We offer spray undercoating at our shop, you need to wash your vehicle and get it done BEFORE the salt is put down on the roads every year or it becomes pointless.
Hey man mind me asking where your at? I’m down in barre. And your damn right about this salt, I got a 75 super beetle and I don’t even let it see the outdoors during winter.
11:45 I think they do this for huge ships where they put like a giant block of "sacrifice" metal to prevent the rest of the hull from getting eaten away.
It’s called sacrificial anode
And it doesn't work on a car/truck because the hull (body, frame) isn't in contact with a conductor (water, salted or otherwise)
@@Slicerwizard wdym
@@Slicerwizardexactly. A car is in the air, current can't flow.
Sandro needs his own videos!!! Guy is HILARIOUS, TOTAL CHARACTER!!!
Electronic corrossion control is a thing. I know its used in bridges and big boats to prevent rusting. The small charge makes it so iron and oxygen dont get all friendly. I know it works, I dont know if it works on cars though. And it helps control it, it wont prevent it entirely. Just like all other types of corrosion control that still leaves the metal not covered.
True, but often it is done with a sacrificial or galvanic anode. It doesn’t stop all rust but can direct it to mostly rust specific areas.
Ships use anodes as well to keep from rusting. You have to have a point with a negative charge and an alloy that will corrode quicker than steel. Then you can replace it when it gets to far gone and it will save the ship from corroding.
I was gonna comment the same thing it’s practically the only thing saving all of Americas historical battleships 😂
Im surprised an “Engineer” didn’t know about this.
It definitely could work but you can't just slap an electric box to prevent rust, you need to place it in the right place and usually it's helped by sacrificial anodes. Also making the charge too large can cause the paint to seperate from the surface.
My 1998 subaru impreza that spent its life in Maryland is crying for you guys right now. I was just pricing sheet metal earlier to weld some new stuffs on.
You can prevent rust with a sacrificial anode- it is particularly common with galvanic corosion. Any dissimilar metals will eat each other, even steel and aluminum as is on your car. Whether that system works i've no idea.
Japan uses sacrificial metals because they don't re-smelt the scrap metal they turn into new sheet-metal. That is why once a Japanese car starts rusting, they literally rust everywhere...
One thing i learned as a German watching Videos like this, and browse "look what just rolled in" is that for some Reason in the USA they got Cars driving on the Street with the worst of the worst and dangerous Issues, Rust etc. that wouldn't even have been allowed on the Streets here with 1/10 of the Damage.
Is this why the craziest Videos and Cases of what Mechanics have rolling in are from the USA? It gotta be
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
TÜV Sagt nein.
The sad reality is a lot of us need cars to go to work and survive but don't make enough or not have enough time to get it fixed. It's even worse when you're trying to support your family, kids, health issues, etc and car maintenance has to go on the back burner until something catastrophic happens and you lose everything. Makes me wish we had better safety nets here so small problems don't have to become big ones in the future.
@@purplegill10nah, people here think even a hint of safety nets are "communism". Hell Texas just got rid of safety checks for vehicles
@@purplegill10
That's a good point i forgot to mention. Whenever i speak with Americans i work with or even just Tourists they always point out "Here in Germany i need 2-4h to get to a different Country and at best 1 hour to the next big city, meanwhile in the USA a lot of us have to drive 1-2h to even just get to work
@@strayiggytv
Like everything it has its positives and negatives. I definitely think having the harsh controls and checks for your Cars regularly would help in the USA, but at the same Time if that was a Law in the US like here, i bet a ton of People couldn't afford even owning a Car.
So like everything in Life when you compare 2 Countries, there are many Factors and no simple Solution
I sold a Mercedes to a dealer that had 160k miles on it, all in New England. Rear subframe had already rusted through and snapped. Told the dealership about it, they took it on trade. I pray for the bro that bought that thing.
Did that with my wife's Impala in December. She originally lived in Illinois, where they use a brine mix on the roads and have no yearly safety inspections. We knew the car was on borrowed time but had to wait until we could afford a new one (I had traded my car in the year before because the engine was giving out). The dealer still took it on trade to sell at auction, likely to a used parts dealer.
Honest Dealerships send the dangerous cars to the nearest salvage yard and the ones that are just crappy to the wholesale action. Often a salvage yard is the winning bidder at the Wholesale auctions...
BTW that amount they gave you in trade was added to the car you bought. And yes, they do this to everyone who brings a crappy trade in...
They scrapped it. Don't worry, the cost was built into the sale.
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It's not a given that they put it back on the road. They may have stripped it for parts.
the cruise-in sounds so cool!! i really hope you guys end up doing more around the country
I moved to Cooperstown NY and needed a ride.
My uncle had a YELLOW 99 Dodge Dakota he parked in a field 2 years ago.
"If you can get it running, you can have it."
I've been driving it for a year put 15,000 miles on it so far
The body flaps in the wind
Did homie say car wash EVERY DAY?! aww hell no...im walking to work 😂
there are lots of car washes with monthly memberships for like 25$ a month and you can go as much as you want.
@erikslan 25 a month?! Aww hell na...add 25 to every car note then people!
Brett kinda sux
Tbf he prolly deals with super high end cars, and the 25-50 a month would be well worth it to stop them from rusting out.
@@OutsideDuhBox25 a month is not bad to be able to wash your car with their water and their soaps, hell you can still bring you own. They tend to have much higher pressure of water as well. 25 bucks is definitely not nothing but if you have a car you love and care about or even work on yourself, it’s worth it. Or just come on down to Florida where the coldest its got has been this winter is in the 40s
Deboss garage is a good guy. Knows what he's doin. 👌
The spring keeps the wheels on the ground and holds the car up, the shock is only there to dampen the spring oscillations
That anti rust system seems to operate on the principle of sacrificial anodes that are on boat hulls to attract the corrosion, but that's about metal moving through water, doesn't seem like that's gonna work on cars.
Love the video's hope Sandro is doing well.
As someone that live in region that is very wet and hot all year
Is actually really common to see cars that are so rusty you think it will fall apart if you look at it
Things like US style junk yard didn't exist here, because if you put a car outside there will be nothing left in a few years
The "junkyard look" cars are just light surface rust vehicles in The desert areas. The real rusty ones get sent to parts-pickers or the recyclers if it fails inspection.
it's not just salting in Canada it's called "brining" the road basically putting more salt on before snow to have a longer window to deal with the heavy snow. black or gray pavement turns white from the amount of salt on the road
Such an insightful discussion on car rusting and potential solutions! will really help us think twice about how we handle rust. The laser rust remover was particularly intriguing.
Perfect Video for me as a German to ask something i always wondered about US Car Laws:
I often hear about "Beaters" in the USA, and see Mechanic Videos of Cars coming in that wouldn't even be allowed to be driven here. Since Beaters are apparently allowed in some US States, does that mean you can legally also drive with rusty parts? If so, i'm not surprised at all about why Car Mechanics in the USA seem to get the very worst of the worst you can ever witness as a Mechanic
That aside,
You Guys really should tell whoever finds these Clips/Scenes for you to check out UA-cam Videos of the "Touristenfahrten" on the Nürburgring which is an Event each Weekend here on the Nürburgring in Germany happen where everyone from around Europe can take whatever Car/Bike etc. they have and race it around the Ring. Each Week there are new Fails and hilarious/weird Happenings.
There's a couple of Channels who professionally record these Touristenfahrten (stuff worth showing) each Weekend the past 10 Years and i'd love to see some Mechanics and other Professioinals react to some of the more weird ones.
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
I looked this up a long time ago and I think it depends on the state with states having different regulations on conditions of cars. Some states don't have any obligatory mechanical inspections but only emissions tests if I recall correctly.
The rules vary from state to state, but generally a beater is allowed to drive on rusty parts as long as they are not actively falling apart or dangerous. Some states have yearly inspections to make sure cars are safe, but others don’t, so in the states which don’t, the beaters are often going to be worse.
Another reason US mechanics get the worst cars is because some states in the northeast use salt to keep snow off the roads, and that saltwater will eat through a car like nothing else.
@@vevos_
Thank you! I don't mention this because i wanna criticise the US, but mainly out of Curiosity.
Now i wonder if this is also why especially Americans online seem to call certain Car brands trash and unreliable (while in Europe they are considered reliable) because in the USA you don't have to get your Car checked out if its still allowed to drive like we have to do here every 2 years or so, nor has very thorough checks done?
Because that would also explain a lot
@@omega1575
Thank you for mentioning the Salt thing i also wondered about. Over here we also use Salt, i live in the Alps, yet it seems like Cars in the US North East are dealing with some kind of "Über Salt" for a lack of a better word, because here it takes a long time until the Salt affects your Car as much as it apparently does within 1-2 Years in the US North East.
Or maybe i'm wrong and we use a Mixture of Salt and something else, thats possible too.
@@chartreux1532 Yeah they don't have to care about it as much in many states because there is not as many restrictions. Germany is pretty strict, same with the UK but some European countries aren't so strict when it comes to rust (Sweden - my country for example). But the EU mandates every country to have some kind of safety- and emissions test on a regular basis.
No mention of any rust prevention oil spray? Gets applied inside the doors trunk lid etc.
Yeah, weird. That's the main thing I use to prevent rust. The kid said to use "pure acetone," but that's not gonna work.
Rust-Oleum Rust Reformer is a solid product. I've used it several places (black iron propane lines in commercial hog barns, Chevy S10 frame, tractor parts). Just clean/descale, then degrease the parts. Give it about three coats of paint. It doesnt trap moisture like some rust prevention products. I just do touch ups once in awhile with another coat and your good. You can also throw RP342 over it if you really want to be extreme.
I spent 2 years doing tires and oil in Ontario and those electronic anti rust module things are on so many newer cars now. The dealerships install them as one of the many add ons before you buy the vehicle and they really don't do anything. When you're buying a new car be careful what they make you pay for
"If it ain't rustin', it ain't bussin'."
-Mark Twain
"No cap fr fr"
-Dolly Parton
I'm from the midwest and see things like this on newer and newer vehicals, especially the "American" vehicals that are built in Korea. This year alone 2015 Equinox, 2012 Terrain & 2009 Compass.
The city flag for Manhattan, Kansas is amazing hahaha
The deboss garage clip made it for me another one of my favorite car channels
5:44 Chainsaw bar
Definitely missed it the first time but you spotted Waldo!
I live in Massachusetts. Oil undercoating is the only thing that works
Edit- I pay $350. That $6G is rubberized, which ruins trucks by sealing in moisture.
Im a fan of the variety of mechanic guests on the show.
Who TF is washing their car every day?
Canadians and anyone who lives by the sea 🌊 or ocean 💙
In Ontario Canada here we deal with salt and rust every year. Around here we usually undercoat our vehicles to prevent this. But it's never 100% but it helps/slows it down.
Big Ontario problem, had to part ways with many vehicles way sooner than I would have liked to because of this
Papa Bear's first car was a '68 Charger he saw come off the assembly line himself. Had the foresight to undercoat the car which held up well enough in Louisiana, but then he got reassigned by the Air Force to South Carolina and he had to leave it there when he went to 'Nam because even the undercoat couldn't save it from sea air.
Change your oil, spray the old oil on the underside of your car. The environment take some much from our cars, give something back in the form of petroleum contaminants.
@@toyotaecw WTF??? Contaminating the environment is a horrible thing to suggest doing and besides, that used oil will cause mechanical issues when it collects dirt. Not to mention that a quality repair shop won't want to service your oily piece of junk...
@@davidhollenshead4892that’s the way they do it up north, I know in Alaska they do and probably Canada as well.
You’re not spraying much on there and it doesn’t just wash off as you drive like you may be expecting.
I’m not sure what you mean by it causing mechanical problems by collecting dirt… anything that has grease on it already has grease on it so it would do the same and anything without it would be dry anyway and getting caked with dirt as it is… maybe you can clarify on that point a bit because I don’t see the logic there…
No Sandro but I'll still watch, these videos are always a laugh.
In states like NY that have yearly inspections, these cars would never be allowed to pass the inspection and get a registration to drive on the road. I know a few friends who failed inspections due to rusted frames.
Oil based rust converter is the best product you can use. Then use an RV primer. It’s made for the elements and creates a very durable base for your paint
As a northeast CT resident/mechanic/ trucking owner, it's not the salt, it's that damn liquid shit that that spray on the road. My trucks were spotless....until they started using that liquid crap. I'm literally doing a frame swap, on my pick up, from the cab back as you read this. 🙄🤦🏻♂️
Central CT here, that liquid salt stuff they use can be a real killer. I'd recommend having the underside of your truck coated with fluid film every other year or so - stopped rust dead in its tracks on my crown vic
North Dakota, same result with some beet juice hybrid.
I'm pretty sure that the city and state are just colluding with mechanics for profit.
@@uss-dh7909 nah, gotta thing on a bigger scale. Governments and auto makers around the world want to force us out of ICE and into EVs. Well, we can't say no if our car rusts away and new ICE sales are banned, can we? And then they have you locked in for life for parts and service, because they'll do everything possible to make it hard for anyone but the manufacturer to get parts or fix issues, and they'll have you on new batteries that cost an absurd amount of money, and they'll have you on all of the features that they turn into subscription services, like BMW tried with heated seats last year. And with government officials insider trading with no consequences at all corners of the political spectrum, they'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
Sorry, I got a little deep in the Reynolds Wrap for a second lol
Need to come up to New England to see some really rusty cars
Love Suppy content!!
I can definitely see the appeal of Sandro more than anyone else, where everyone throws a lot of car information at you (obviously) Sandro just has a good time with it, he's honest & very blatant with you
Grew up in NH. In New England many people have winter cars. Cheap, light weight, FWD nuggets with snow tires. It wont sink in snow, and your nice car wont be exposed to the Salt.
Side note: salting roads should be illegal.
re: salting
"Why mess up a few of the cars in low-speed crashes when we could salt the roads and mess up all of them?"
It'd be nice to have heated streets like NYC, tbh.
WHERE MY BOY SANDRO
hes off chillin with the boys
Prob fixing rust buckets
9:02 not necessarily. Cars that are GARAGE KEPT and the garage itself is maintained. If the fluids in the car have been drained before letting it sit, it should be fine to sit.
If you don’t drain the fluids though, they can ruin whatever part they’re in.
This is the case with a large number of museum cars that NEVER MOVE, but if they wanted to, still could with basically no maintenance.
The shock doesn't keep wheel on ground. It takes shocks. The spring pushes.
11:28 actually. Running a current through almost any metal structure will guarantee rust. /ANY/ amount of moisture or ionizing particle (any of the alkaline metals.) Will 100% interact with the current and begin the oxidation process.
I think suppy and sandro reviewing clips together would be golden
Didn't they do it in the previous video about sketchy car mods
@@bleukreuz not sure, I know they did have a couple videos with the mechanics together buti don't think suppy was around
Oh man, the Dongar dongle is exactly something i need but had no idea existed!
Awesome video ! I learned alot 👌🏾
Random fact. The 2nd car. (Red one) ended up used as a parts car. This was from another UA-camr who also repaired his 240sx after it got T-boned
... and also ka swapped a 300zx
Nothing against these guys but where is sandro???
So good to see Suppy!
Him and Sandro together could be awesome
From what I understand, rust proof spraying should ONLY be done at the factory and no other time for the life of the vehicle unless the shop is equipped to sand blast the bottom to remove all the moisture before applying. Otherwise you're trapping dirt and moisture between the layers forever.
Was your car every day? Wax it and wash it? Hell no!!! I live in Alaska, full of road salt in the winter and we can't wash our cars when it's -35° F like it is today . The only thing you can do is, after a lot of prep work, get a full under body protective spray or rubberized undercoating installed
Where sandro
On the subaru clip i can confirm it happens more often then people think however I buy them like this to take and repair it you can still buy the towers new to weld in
Suppy is back! So great!
Sandro sandro
Sandro is the only real mechanic ever he belongs on this show
5:20 reminds me of Davy Jones' ship/crew from Pirates of the Caribbean lol
Great reactions Guys !
RIP for my boy Sandro
He died
Please do a update of this video with SANDRO. I’ll gladly watch this video again
You got me to watch the ad, because now I'm curious... When did rear view mirrors start having/needing power?!
The only Real Mechanic we want on this Show is Sandro
November*
WE WANT SANDRO
I drive a 81 vw rabbit pickup.
Chassis is a bit rusted.
So I made a 120lb ladder frame that connects all suspension, engine and bumper mounts.
Oh and I used 3/8” plate😊
She ain’t falling apart on my watch
6:22 been there, fabbed some new ones, still holding 2 years later, just swapped coilovers and checked them.
6:10 my subi looked abt like that and I fixed it and it hasn’t had a problem since. Even held up when I rolled it down a hill
So stoked to see my man Suppy I wondered what he was gonna be doing post hoonigan.
Living next to a ocean like Florida is just as bad as driving on roads that are salted and washing your vehicles every day is the worst thing you could ever do. Only thing you can do to avoid rust is a oil under coating every year or every second year..
That's not even close to correct. Cars that drive on salted roads will rust 10 times faster than cars "next to a ocean" I have lived in south Florida and Michigan and none of the cars in Florida were rusted and all the cars in Michigan were made out of rust
3:08 One of my old bosses had a Holden Commodore with a factory 'Country Pack' fitted. Basically it's a lift kit for a Commodore. I was driving it up 'The Bloomfield Track' from Cairns to Cooktown one day and when I got back onto the bitumen the rear end felt sloppy as shit. Turns out the bushes on the panhard rod had finally flogged out. It had side sway very similar to that Camry until we replaced the bushes.
I got a '93 ZJ. Been in NY its whole life. The unibody frame rails at this point are mostly frame stiffeners and steel plates I welded in.
So glad you guys brought
Suppy in
Petersen museum is so dope! Hope to see yall there!
Good to see suppy often
Yeah boi! Suppy around there again is the best!
Instantly watch every time I see this channel dropped a video 🔥
when he said "Back home.... in NEW YORK" I am ashamed to say I was NOT expecting him to say that lol.
Best way I found to slow down rust a rust preventative agent called Coraseal oil-based rusted preventive tractor primer and then Rust-Oleum bed liner took about 6 years for the rest to start bubbling back through it all. I live in Maine where they salt the roads heavily
Luv this! ❤️
Man those rust laser operators without a mask, breathing in all that goodness like god intended them to. Damn bro.
That's one perk of living in the super hot Southwest. No rust problems. Just A/C and overheating problems.
I love seeing Rich on other UA-cam channels. Deboss garage is one of my favorites! If you're not filthy, you're not rich! Here we go!
Only the real ones know the catchphrases
SUUUUUUPPPPPPYYYYY!!!! always love seeing him!
From Wisconsin I worked at a junkyard. Had a 90 Oldsmobile Cutlass come in. Rustiest vehicle Ive ever seen. Put it on the lift to drain the fluids, the doors popped open as I was lifting it
Saw that dash Cam power connection commercial I use a Waze Pan and scan camera as my dash Cam
11:08 i work with making ship parts. on the inside of the hull, you mount zink blocks, electrical connected... so it makes sorta sense
Channel is so great. 1M subs this year for sure.
I live in the Maritimes in Canada (Which people don't realize is a real place) and this episode really hit home :(
A lot of municipal areas have moved to using sand on the smaller roads but highways usually get salted and/or brined to melt the ice.
My time to shine. Upstate NY checking in. Fluid film is a great DIY rust preventative. Krown undercoating is a great undercoating by a professional. Woolwax is also great.
Running current through metal to prevent corrosion as idea is not a scam, I don't know if it can be properly used on cars but it is used on ships.
"Cathodic protection is a technique used to prevent corrosion on metal structures by applying an electrical current that stops the electrochemical reaction that causes corrosion. In ships, cathodic protection is used to prevent the hull from corroding in saltwater. The hull acts as the cathode, and the anodes act as the anode. The electrical current flows from the anodes to the hull, preventing the hull from corroding."
Step one for me was grab mirror from backseat but thanks for the help on the install