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Ziebart Tips: How to Tell if Your Car Has Been Rust-proofed

10 June 1997

Rust Protection Experts Offer Advice on How to Know if Your Vehicle Has Been Rust-proofed

    TROY, Mich., June 10 -- In response to allegations from the
Illinois Attorney General's Office last week that a Chicago-area auto dealer
defrauded customers of rust protection services, Ziebart International Corp.
offers these tips to consumers to determine if their vehicles have in fact
been rust-proofed:

     1.  Ask to see the official, written rust protection
         specifications for the exact make and model of your vehicle.
         Do not accept verbal or general guidelines.  All reputable
         companies will have these specifications in writing.  (There are
         too many vehicle variations to perform the protection process
         from memory.)
     2.  Check the drain holes in the bottom edges of your car doors,
         hood and trunk for visual evidence of a sealant.  A properly
         applied penetrating sealant will be visible and probably ooze
         from these holes.
     3.  Get down on your hands and knees and look under the car.  Check
         to see that all visible areas of the vehicle's underside are
         covered with black undercoating sealant.

    "Consumers should not assume that all rust protection processes are the
same or are properly applied.  However, you can easily determine that rust
protection has been performed by following these three simple steps," says Tom
Walker, Ziebart's vice president of product management and director of the
Ziebart Forum on Car Care Solutions, Ziebart's consumer education program.
    Established in 1963, Ziebart International offers more than 30 products
and services, including rust protection, to protect and enhance the vehicles
people drive.
    For more information, consumers may call Ziebart International toll-
free at 888-CARRENEW, or access the company's web site at ziebart.com. For a
complimentary rust inspection, consumers may call one of the 18 Chicago-area
Ziebart stores directly.

SOURCE  Ziebart International Corporation