Why Choose Us
Krown is the largest company in rust control for vehicles in Canada today; possibly in the world. And why wouldn’t a Canadian company invent and further develop the #1 performing rust inhibitor product available in the country today, perhaps in the world? Who has a worse climate for corrosion than we have here, especially in Ontario and east to the Maritime provinces? Ontario uses an abundance of road salt to melt snow and ice on the roads in the wintertime and look at the geography of south-western Ontario, surrounded as it is by the Great Lakes with all the moisture it generates in the way of rain, snow, sleet and humidity.
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Moisture, not salt, is the number one cause of corrosion on metal. Salt is an accelerant, just like gasoline is an accelerant, when you have a small fire burning.
Krown works by eliminating moisture from the metal, even in tight seams and crevices where moisture tends to get trapped against metal. It is designed as a rust inhibitor and the approximately 250 Krown Rust Control Centres located coast to coast in Canada are the means by which Krown T-40 is distributed and applied to vehicles.
Krown is not an ‘oil’ spray as such. It is an oily-film type of product but more accurately described as a complex mixture of chemicals that have certain characteristics. For example, it will have something in it to dissipate moisture on contact so that Krown can be sprayed in any type of weather and any season. It will displace the moisture on contact, it will adhere to the metal and you will not take it off bare metal with soaps or water. So driving up and down the road in wet weather or in winter conditions will not take the product off the metal regardless of the weather conditions at the time it is applied. The Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) says it is “Insoluble” with water. So it will not mix with water and water will not wash it off metal. However, the Krown product will take water off wet surfaces. Pretty amazing product!
Krown has a “creeper” as part of its chemical makeup. For that reason, the product is designed to creep in any direction on metal. It will penetrate tight seams and crevices and will move upward on metal, as well as downward. A lot of so-called “Rust Inhibitor” type of products will flow downward by gravity but Krown will creep in any direction. When it encounters moisture, it will physically lift the moisture off the metal, displace it, and leave a moisture resistant film on the metal that will continue to repel moisture from making further contact with the metal, thus practically eliminating corrosion. Oil floats on water. Oil does not displace water. Therefore, oil is not a particularly good rust inhibitor. Oil is designed to lubricate moving parts. Krown is designed to inhibit corrosion on metal. Products can usually only do what they are designed to do and asking a product, such as oil, to do something it is not designed for is not reasonable.
Oil, especially used motor oil, in conjunction with picking up dirt to hold it against the metal by driving up and down a dirt road, is an old idea, old technology. Used motor oil has a fair bit of acid in it and will attack rubber such as shock absorbers and motor mounts. Today’s automobiles incorporate synthetics and plastics in what used to be rust prone areas and they will be affected adversely by old motor oil, not to mention the environmental concerns of using recycled oil. Krown is the new technology of rust control! Vehicles have changed dramatically in the past 40 – 50 years and to keep up with today’s technology with the improved electrical and electronics, products have to be designed to work with anything electrical or electronic on a vehicle. Krown will not harm anything electrical or electronic on vehicles. It actually helps protect those components. Some of our Commercial Fleet customers have reported cutting electrical repair costs on their fleet vehicles by as much as 50% since beginning to use Krown to protect electrical wiring and connections, solenoids and switches, etc.
KROWN WILL NOT VOID ANY MANUFACTURER’S WARRANTY!
Krown will have a bonding agent that allows it to bond to metal upon contact, whether metal is dry or not. The Krown formula is a protected formula, therefore, only a select few persons actually know the exact ingredients that make up the product. There are no toxic or hazardous chemicals in the product and it is not controlled under WHMIS legislation. There is nothing of a cancer causing nature, nothing of a peanut nature, for persons concerned about anaphylactic reactions. There are no solvents, no kerosene or gasoline and no aggressive chemicals of any kind. There is no paraffin, wax or lanolin in Krown. It is as safe a product as is available in the marketplace today for controlling corrosion on metal. Krown is still the only ‘totally environmentally friendly’ rust inhibitor product available in Canada today.
Krown does not believe in no-drip type products. Think about it! If you can spray something on a vertical door panel that will not weep some from the drain ports at the bottom of the doors, it will not get where you really need it. It would be very rare to find anyone in the body shop business, who knows his or her stuff, who will recommend ‘no-drip’ products over something that will weep and flow and seep into the seams where you really need it. No-drip products will more likely coat the seams and trap water in, thus accelerating corrosion. No drip products would have a tendency, due to their thixotropic nature, to gum up door locks in cold weather.
There is nothing in the Krown product that will harm asphalt or concrete. Any spots that show on asphalt will eventually just disappear. It will not eat into pavement like oil will.
The few spots that may show on a paved driveway is a small price to pay for the huge benefits derived from an annual application of Krown. Since it lubricates all moving parts it comes into contact with and keeps nuts and bolts freed up, it keeps mechanical and electrical repairs down substantially over the life of a vehicle.
