Underbody Coating

A person name Ravi who is living in Cherapunji has a old car but his car's underside got rust and lots of noise from road came inside the cabin. He wents to a mechanic shop and tell about his problem facing with a car. Mechanic tell him to change underside part and apply Underbody coating to Underside of car. Ravi was not aware about underbody coating so naturally he ask about Underbody coating. Mechanic give all the information related to UnderBody coating as follows:

Underbody coating is a thick cladding (Rubber) uniformly to the car's underside as shown below:-

his car will look like this as shown below

It is usually sprayed or painted. Now a days Car Manufacturer is providing underbody paint or if it is not we can also apply this underbody coating by the Authorised service centre or local mechanic shop or automobile spray or paint shop.

Generally car owner living near the sea area or travelling regularly should prefer underbody coating because it will help them to protect car or any vehicles they own from rust

Types of underbody coating

1.Rubberised Underbody coating:-

Best underbody coating for car.It is not also difficult to apply on under carriage. It is also ideal to keep road noise to minimum

2.Wax Based Underbody Coating:-

This type of coating fades away after a few month.It is resistant to dampness

3. Asphalt based Automotive Underbody Coating:-

It is suitable for lorries, trucks. This type of coating give higher level of protection compare to rubber base coating.This type of coating takes time to apply

4. Polyurethane Underbody Coating:- This provide strong corrosion resistance and also binds to the metal unlike an asphalt based coating, the polyurethane coating may be painted over.

Advantages of Underbody coating:-

1. Fight Rust:- When any car owner or any vehicle owner live near the sea or any area where humidity is excessive.If any owner wants to extends his car life then he has to do undercoating or should buy underbody coating car.

2. Absorb Noise:-The road noise could be minimize at some extent due to very stronog undercoating.

3.Reinforcement:- If any vehicle which has undercoating already can also be undercoating again causes no harm further it will provide more protection.

Cons of Underbody Coating:-

Undercoating will work best on new vehicles that have not been exposed to road conditions. A used vehicle may already have residue on the bottom of the car or even have spots of rust and corrosion. Undercoating will not help you if corrosion already exists and the corrosion needs to be removed first before it can be applied, which can be expensive for you.