Rust on Head 2 year old head bolts...
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In my experience most people and the auto manufacturers see vehicles as disposable so adding something like this would be a waste of time and money. Aircraft on the other hand are usually kept many times longer than cars and, as we all know, failure is going to end up worse.
^This, today the "design-life" of the average automobile is 10 years/200,000 mi. (when the XJs were produced it was much less, 8 years/150,000 mi. was common in the 90s/early-00s, and if you go back to the 70s/80s when the XJ was first designed it was often only 6 years/100,000 mi). Granted many vehicles last longer than this, but this is the "goal" the engineers/designers are shooting for so they aren't generally going to spend more money/effort to make a vehicle last longer than this. Commercial aircraft on the other hand generally have a 30 year "design-life" so the extra cost of better corrosion prevention is justified.
https://nzic.org.nz/app/uploads/2017/10/10F.pdf
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The practice of dipping the entire unit body in a vat of anti-rust compound is actually very old. Rambler started doing it in the 1950s. (Of course materials and processes have greatly improved since then.)
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