Coilovers covers

Personally I'd be a tad eh about doing that. Living in wisconsin. That does not seem to be water tight sealed. I see it getting packed with snow and salt. But since it's closed. It won't simply wash away. It will stay there. Car wash or not.
 
Its not suppose to be a air tight seal. Just something to help keep the cleaning and junk off.

It works for the dirt guys. I know salt is a different animal. Its low cost so what would be the harm.

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I really think it useless in snow belt area. My coilovers went through 3 winters and it seized up pretty good. I tried to raise the driver side up just a tad and it frozen until I use a pipe wrench on it. The first two years, I coated the threads around the rings with synthetic grease. After the winter months, I clean it up and loosen and re-tighten the rings just be sure it not frozen. Well the third year, I use these lubricant (forgot the name...AFC-40....white can with purple letters...?) from an aerosol spray bottle that many coilovers owners swear by it and works for them to prevent corrosion. Well not sure if it is because my coilovers aged another year or this spray lubricant did nothing to protects it. When I clean off the thread a couple weeks ago, I clearly sees the threads on the coilovers body corroded more than the first two years. The next set of coilovers, I will coat it with grease each winter and see how that goes.
 
I would be more worried about that trapping dirt, water, etc. and actually helping corrosion. Would also make it harder to inspect for issues since you can't just look. I could understand it if I was driving a WRX in a rally and just wanted to keep dirt off for the time being, and was doing enough work on the car anyway that I didn't mind taking off the wheels and these things to clean it up.
 
I used this past winter

ACF-50 anti-corrosion lubricant
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Aaah, that what I use this winter and it didn't work well. My rings on on the coilovers seized up so bad that I have to use d pipe wrench to loosen it.
 
StuLax18 said:
I would be more worried about that trapping dirt, water, etc. and actually helping corrosion. Would also make it harder to inspect for issues since you can't just look. I could understand it if I was driving a WRX in a rally and just wanted to keep dirt off for the time being, and was doing enough work on the car anyway that I didn't mind taking off the wheels and these things to clean it up.
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Something I thought of too..

I've never left my coilovers on during the winter months. Always pulled them off but its getting to be a chore now. So I'm looking for options, doesn't seem like much. I've seen people electrical tape the threads and apply bottles of antiseize.

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