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Old 01-20-2012, 11:57 PM
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whats the good way to keep your coilovers and other underbody bolts from collecting dirt and rocks?

can i grease them up so it covers the threads on coilovers? that way they will just need to be wiped out?
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It's true. I don't drive my car and my suspension is pretty clean. Does gather dust from sitting around though. Might need to take some compressed air under there and spray the dust off.

That or wash it off all the time and get under there and detail it sometimes to get rid of the water spots.
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whats the good way to keep your coilovers and other underbody bolts from collecting dirt and rocks?

can i grease them up so it covers the threads on coilovers? that way they will just need to be wiped out?
Don't grease anything. That's about the worst thing you could do.
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WD40 will make it easy to clean but it will get more dust on it faster
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You do realize that's kind of like asking how does one keep dust from sitting on their car right?
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Small brush and soap and water will work if you feel like putting in the work
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i meant to prevent rocks in the coilover threads if posible.
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Get a dust boot big enough to slip over the threads but easy enough to slide off I am guessing you tend to play around with the height quite a bit.
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Default Re: how to keep coilovers clean?
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i meant to prevent rocks in the coilover threads if posible.
Just clean them off every once in a while, really, there is no other way.

All 4 of mine are coated in ****.
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train my trunk monkey to clean my coilovers as well...

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