Preserving & Protecting a 1986 Porsche 944 Lux from Rust & Corrosion

Video Transcript

 
0:00 
Hi guys, and welcome to Lanagard's latest driveway icons. 

 
0:03 
We've got a beautiful 944 Lux today and he's brought it in for us to have a look at, get it up in the air and give it some Lanagard treatment. 

 
0:10 
Good to see you, Andy. 

 
0:11 
Nice to meet you. 

 
0:12 
Thanks for having us. 

 
0:24 
So Andy, we're inside your, your 944 Lux Indeed. 

 
0:27 
Yeah, which is very luxurious, actually. 

 
0:29 
It's quite comfy. 

 
0:30 
Yeah, yeah. 

 
0:31 
Tell us a few bits about, you know, why you've got this car, what it means to you. 

 
0:35 
So yeah, it came about. 

 
0:36 
I've had it probably 9 years. 

 
0:37 
I had a little bit of inheritance previously. 

 
0:41 
You kind of you spend stuff on the House or the family, etcetera. 

 
0:43 
And I was like, no, I'm going to spend a little bit of something sensible, something on me. 

 
0:46 
I didn't spend a huge amount of money on it, but yeah, I bought this for me. 

 
0:49 
I used to walk past kind of 94 fours in the street as a kid, go to school, and I just really like the style of them. 

 
0:56 
I was never kind of a Porsche poster child. 

 
0:58 
Like I didn't have the 9/11 on the wall. 

 
1:00 
I had Ferraris on the wall, but I can't afford an F40, so it's just sort of second fiddle. 

 
1:04 
But yeah, I bought this and I set out to buy a mint kind of S2. 

 
1:09 
Really. 

 
1:09 
I wanted sort of investment Porsche. 

 
1:11 
What I ended up with was kind of a modified messed about with 944, but for half the money. 

 
1:16 
So yeah, this came up. 

 
1:18 
I bought it locally. 

 
1:20 
It's done loads of miles. 

 
1:21 
It's probably got knocking on 200,000 miles. 

 
1:23 
It's got patina, but not in a bad way. 

 
1:26 
No, no, no. 

 
1:27 
It's so the the colour's pretty striking. 

 
1:29 
It's a Mitsubishi colour. 

 
1:30 
It's not a silver colour. 

 
1:31 
It's not, it's not, it's not a factory colour. 

 
1:34 
So yeah, it was silver from the factory. 

 
1:36 
Someone at some point has repainted it. 

 
1:37 
Not brilliantly, but it looks kind of it looks kind of cool. 

 
1:40 
That's the job, yeah, yeah. 

 
1:42 
Inside, it's been messed around with. 

 
1:43 
So I've got this steering wheel, this I bought, I used to work at Halfords years ago and I bought this in the reduced sale section for about 25 lbs. 

 
1:51 
It's been in almost all of my cars. 

 
1:53 
So yeah. 

 
1:53 
Momo competition steering wheel. 

 
1:55 
Yeah. 

 
1:55 
The hedge unit is yeah. 

 
1:57 
Pioneer. 

 
1:57 
This was top of the range again when I was working in Halfords, there were sort of three, £400. 

 
2:02 
I'd love to put some more audio in it, but then actually it's beautiful. 

 
2:06 
It makes a nice noise. 

 
2:07 
It's got yeah dank's stainless steel exhaust on it, so yeah, it does make a nice noise. 

 
2:12 
Nice. 

 
2:13 
Especially when you kind of get up in the Rev range. 

 
2:15 
I'm talking of that. 

 
2:16 
How about we hop out, we'll have a look under the engine Bay. 

 
2:19 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we can flip the bonnet. 

 
2:20 
Yeah, see what's see what's underneath. 

 
2:22 
Cool. 

 
2:28 
So Andy, we're we're under the hood with this nice 2 1/2 litre for pop Yeah yeah. 

 
2:34 
Been reliable for you Yeah not too bad to be fair yeah, I had a water hose split on me but aside from that generally speaking yeah mechanically it's been pretty good actually. 

 
2:44 
A valve when I change one of these, we can start for a while and yeah, I had to change one of those. 

 
2:52 
So I'm just looking at, you know, generally it's pretty good. 

 
2:55 
And we can see you've had a respray on it showing it's ageing areas. 

 
2:59 
I was just saying so the the servo here is, is a little bit corroded. 

 
3:04 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

 
3:04 
But we can give that a Little Miss with Lana guards because it will stop that getting any worse. 

 
3:09 
It also just sort of will bring it up a little bit long term as well. 

 
3:14 
So hopefully save you any bills in that area just from stopping the corrosion. 

 
3:18 
But I mean, they're built to last on these things. 

 
3:22 
Yeah, definitely. 

 
3:22 
And obviously the mileage on it, we're not quite sure what it is. 

 
3:25 
It's, no, it's a high mileage thing. 

 
3:27 
It's not. 

 
3:27 
And it's not original by any means. 

 
3:29 
As you can see, it's silver under here. 

 
3:30 
It's very much blue on the outside. 

 
3:32 
So yeah, it's been messed around with. 

 
3:33 
I'm not kind of precious about it from an originality point of view, but yeah, it kind of motors along pretty well. 

 
3:40 
That's the job. 

 
3:41 
Yeah. 

 
3:41 
Put smiles on your face. 

 
3:49 
So Andy, we've got some great 80s arches here. 

 
3:52 
Yeah, I love the box arches on these. 

 
3:54 
You see a bit like the 924, but yeah, wider. 

 
3:57 
Yep, I've got cut one wheels, the 17 inch cut ones that you can see on the 9/6 fours door handles. 

 
4:03 
So this one's got the four script handles, but they've been polished up now. 

 
4:06 
They're cool. 

 
4:07 
968 cut mirrors or 964 cut mirrors. 

 
4:11 
So again, later mirrors on there, stainless exhaust, turbo rear spoiler there underneath, few, few add-ons then. 

 
4:18 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's, yeah, it's not original. 

 
4:21 
I quite like it for that. 

 
4:22 
So moving down towards the front, Yeah, Yeah. 

 
4:25 
So we've seen your pop up headlights. 

 
4:27 
Yeah, pop up headlights. 

 
4:28 
So yeah, very 80s design, which will never be uncool, I don't think. 

 
4:31 
OK, well, let's get her up in the air, see what it's like underneath. 

 
4:35 
Cool. 

 
4:35 
Let's go. 

 
4:54 
So a slight change of plan. 

 
4:55 
We're now outside on a different ramp because due to the slimness of the 944's design, it wouldn't quite fit on the one in the warehouse. 

 
5:01 
So do bear it with us. 

 
5:03 
The noise is a little bit noisy, so we'll do our best to, to talk over that. 

 
5:10 
So looking underneath the car, we've got a couple of areas which they, they do, they're all prone to go in. 

 
5:15 
I can see it's had some repair work done in the past, which is, you know, half of the course for anything of this 4 year old this vintage. 

 
5:22 
So you've got a nice gearbox at the back with this. 

 
5:23 
Yeah. 

 
5:24 
So you've done your drive shafts, you've been replaced. 

 
5:26 
So you're obviously keeping it up to date and doing it as a yeah, I'll do what I can myself. 

 
5:30 
And if not, then yeah, I'll get kind of a specialist garage to do that tends tends to be the engine stuff. 

 
5:34 
I'll get someone else to do. 

 
5:35 
Yeah. 

 
5:36 
And then like Dr belts and things and then yeah, that sort of stuff. 

 
5:39 
Bolt on, bolt off. 

 
5:39 
I'll give it a go myself. 

 
5:41 
It's a good way to know your car, isn't it? 

 
5:43 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

 
5:44 
Definitely the highs and lows of living with a classic. 

 
5:47 
Yeah. 

 
5:48 
So moving along, Stanks exhaust, Yeah. 

 
5:50 
Stanis exhaust. 

 
5:51 
So, yeah, you heard it earlier. 

 
5:52 
Sounds really nice. 

 
5:53 
Yeah. 

 
5:54 
Yeah. 

 
5:54 
Should live forever, hopefully. 

 
5:57 
So we can see a few repair, repair spots, which, you know, these are prone to go over sills. 

 
6:08 
So Andy, while we're under your car, Yeah. 

 
6:10 
You do a little bit in life to do with cars. 

 
6:14 
Yeah. 

 
6:14 
So I wear a number of hats. 

 
6:16 
Yeah, work wise, I'm a marketing manager for a parts supplier, car parts supplier. 

 
6:21 
In my spare time I've got a podcast that I run, so it's called my Dad's Car. 

 
6:26 
It's all about kind of nostalgia, basically remembering the vehicles from when we grew up. 

 
6:30 
And then I also organise a Porsche group called Stuttgart South. 

 
6:34 
So it's Porsche owners along the South Coast will get together. 

 
6:37 
We'll go for a bit of a drive for the meet up, our pub and breakfast. 

 
6:40 
So Andy, we're going to start putting the lender card on now. 

 
6:43 
Yeah, yeah, we had a little chat and a look over the car. 

 
6:46 
So basically it's a case of point and squirt and try and keep you up to mix this up or is it a pre mix? 

 
6:52 
So you just got to put the yeah, put the gun in and then adjust the nozzle so you get a good, good squirt. 

 
6:59 
Probably is with the wind as well. 

 
7:00 
You're you're fighting them. 

 
7:01 
Well, this is a joy of doing it outside. 

 
7:03 
I guess it's a real life DIY application. 

 
7:05 
Yeah. 

 
7:06 
So it's worth getting right in on the inside of the sills there because a good shout. 

 
7:10 
Yeah, going to be where your main issues lay. 

 
7:15 
And how long will this last? 

 
7:17 
Well, do a Goodyear. 

 
7:18 
Depends how you use it. 

 
7:19 
I mean, if it's on a Land Rover that's in the fields, Yeah. 

 
7:22 
Yeah, I would say definitely every year. 

 
7:25 
If you're doing car shows in summer, you're probably going to get a year or two out of out of a property. 

 
7:30 
Yeah. 

 
7:30 
And do you need to remove it or is it just a no, no, just recount. 

 
7:33 
OK, Go over the top of it again. 

 
7:34 
So, so as you can see, it's, it's really technical to put it on. 

 
7:44 
Do you want to have a cry? 

 
7:45 
Yeah. 

 
7:45 
Yeah, go for it. 

 
7:45 
Yeah. 

 
7:46 
So literally point and square so you can see the areas where it's been on. 

 
7:50 
Yeah. 

 
7:50 
Yeah. 

 
7:51 
Like that. 

 
7:52 
Yeah. 

 
7:52 
Pretty much easy, isn't it? 

 
7:53 
Yeah. 

 
7:54 
So if you come back and move the gun as it's going on, OK, you'll get a lot better coverage and more use out of the product. 

 
8:03 
So if it starts dripping, you've got you've got too much on. 

 
8:07 
So, Andy, that's the Lanagard treatment done. 

 
8:09 
Doesn't take long, but thanks to you for bringing the The 944 down to us today. 

 
8:15 
It's been great to to hear your stories, your engagement with the car and the car community guys at home. 

 
8:21 
Don't forget to subscribe. 

 
8:22 
There's going to be loads more episodes coming down the line for you. 

 
8:25 
Thanks for watching.