Electronic rust proofing

Have the CAT on my ute from new. This is the second one with 4 pads after original unit's housing cracked after10 years.
Nothing will prevent rust entirely but IMHO this helps slow it down.
I go to Fraser every year at least once but usually 2 or 3 times and the only rust I had was above windscreen after a dodgy installation of replacement windscreen.
Nothing replaces thorough cleaning after beach trips with several washes and sprinkler under vehicle also several times.

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Originally Posted by Wizard52

Have the CAT on my ute from new. This is the second one with 4 pads after original unit's housing cracked after10 years.
Nothing will prevent rust entirely but IMHO this helps slow it down.
I go to Fraser every year at least once but usually 2 or 3 times and the only rust I had was above windscreen after a dodgy installation of replacement windscreen.
Nothing replaces thorough cleaning after beach trips with several washes and sprinkler under vehicle also several times.

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I installed a system with 8 pads, time consuming running the cables etc, however found the unit induced a 'field effect' to the vehicle and basically killed the ability to operate my HF radio - needed to wait up to 4 hours for the interference to decay to zero before I could use the rado. As comms was more important to me than corrosion protection, I ripped it off. I also think it a help if correctly installed however this was an undocumented and known issue when I delved into the issue why the HF radio wasn't receiving or transmtting.

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Originally Posted by PeeBee

I installed a system with 8 pads, time consuming running the cables etc, however found the unit induced a 'field effect' to the vehicle and basically killed the ability to operate my HF radio - needed to wait up to 4 hours for the interference to decay to zero before I could use the rado. As comms was more important to me than corrosion protection, I ripped it off. I also think it a help if correctly installed however this was an undocumented and known issue when I delved into the issue why the HF radio wasn't receiving or transmtting.

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Had no problem with my radios but bullbar probably is not protected by the unit as the pad i have on chassis is towards the back.

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Originally Posted by Wizard52

Had no problem with my radios but bullbar probably is not protected by the unit as the pad i have on chassis is towards the back.

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UHF and VHF are fine, just HF 0-30Mhz, spent a lot of time and effort rooting this out, anyway, the system is gone, shame because I installed it to perform a task.