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-----Prevention of car corrosion
Q. I am Yee Chin from Malaysia.now take the summer holiday course in Sheffield Hallam university (Materials and manufacturing Engineering). My question are:1) I need to search corrosion prevention of car. 2) how to improve the prevention ? and 3) the improvement already done of corrosion prevention of car during this 20 years.
I hoped that I can get your help as soon as possible; thanks a lot; have a nice day. Bye
Teng Yee Chinstudent - Sheffield, UK
2004
A. Some of the major elements of the progress were the use of galvannealed steel, electrophoretic primers, improved nickel-chrome plating via the STEP test, replacement of some parts with plastic, use of stainless steel for some systems like the exhaust system, zinc-alloy plated fasteners, and mounting the trim with adhesive or plastic barbs instead of bolting it with metal bolts.
The future probably includes more use of plastic, stainless steel, and aluminum--but this is a layman's guess, not an insider's plan.
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