Water-Repellent Paints As Aid To Clean-Up?

[Incommando]

Ever hear of these? You use it as a top-coat and rain and other wet things like mud are supposed to slide right off instead of stick. It is supposed to work on metal, plastic, even cloth and leather according to the ads. Rustoleum's NeverWet may be the biggest name but there are several other brands out there with similar claims. 

 

Anyone who has ever wheeled in mud ( real mud...not that water puddle crap the 4x4 rags "test" mud tires in out west) knows that it gets EVERYWHERE and makes clean-up a bear. I often wait until it dries and then I crawl around under the jeep with a long screw driver to knock the crap off and then put it in a 5-gallon bucket to haul away. Sometimes I fill multiple buckets. Mud getting stuck in rims causes its own special issues.

 

So...what do you think of coating the chassis, wheel backs, drive train components, etc... with this stuff so that the mud does not stick in the first place? 

[91Pioneer]

Well for chassis, etc. wouldn't any sort of oil help with cleanup? Yeah I'm thinking that NeverWet is exactly what you're looking for.

 

Try it out on a test section, see how it goes, in theory it will work well...

[Incommando]

I and many others spray Pam on various parts before such wheeling trips. It actually works.

[Pete M]

search youtube for neverwet tests and you'll see why you shouldn't use it on your truck.  or anything.  it's more party trick that useful tool.  :(

[benjy_26]

Yup. I spray PAM on my undercarriage when wheeling in wet conditions. We don't get gumbo mud out in my corner of Texas, but caliche clay poses its own issues. 

[Incommando]

search youtube for neverwet tests and you'll see why you shouldn't use it on your truck.  or anything.  it's more party trick that useful tool.  :(

Thanks for the tip