Ships are big bits of iron floating in nice corrosive salt water. Ship owners put a big bit of zink on the outside of the hull, it corrodes away before the ship does, so why don't we have these for cars?
-- morrison_rm, Sep 21 2003

This idea is fully baked... Lots of modern cars already use Hot zinc plated steel for panels etc
-- rep_movsd, Sep 21 2003


*cough* search first *cough*
-- dickity, Sep 21 2003


[sp:] zinc
-- Freefall, Sep 21 2003


galvanised? (or galvaniZed for our american cousins)

as far as I am aware, EVERY car made with steel goes through a galvanisation process...
-- suctionpad, Sep 22 2003


Auto bodies go through a zinc chromate primer bath early in the manufacturing process. In addition, many corrosion-prone areas are made from galvanized panels. This caused a number of recalls in the '70s, and '80s, as the paint used at the time adhered poorly to the zinc.

All metal car parts should be powdercoated, anyway.
-- whlanteigne, Mar 10 2008



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