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If the manufacturer or the customer applies a thick heavy undercoating I think it can make a big difference. It's robust enough to resist the abrasive nature of the salt, at least for a while.

The thing is I don't think manufacturer's like adding products like that as it messes with the fuel economy results. It's actually quite heavy, despite being just a "coating"



>If the manufacturer or the customer applies a thick heavy undercoating I think it can make a big difference.

IIRC most manufacturers, at least in Europe, at some point started zinc galvanization, this prevents most rust from forming:

https://www.fj.co/blog/land-cruiser-chassis-galvanized/


The link you provided seems to be a niche company that specializes in reconditioning existing vehicles. Not a manufacturer of new vehicles.


It had some cool pictures of the process, that's why I linked it.

In any case, most of what I find is in German. Like here it states that premium manufacturers started using zinc galvanization in the 80s: https://www.seat.de/service-zubehoer/technik-lexikon/k/karos....

It also says it protects from rust despite abrasion.




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