Friendly service and they even fit me in ahead of time. Thoroughly coated my vehicle with rust check. Highly recommended. Protect your investment!
Whitby to Bowmanville is 18 minutes east on Highway 2 for licensed Rust Check, rust proofing, and undercoating service. Most people do it on a weekday morning and pick up on the way home. Annual Rust Check is the kind of appointment that fits into a normal day if you plan it right.
Whitby is one of the most active commuter communities in Durham Region, with thousands of vehicles on Highway 2, Dundas St, and the 401 daily. These high-traffic corridors receive aggressive salt treatment from November through March, and vehicles driven on them daily face compounding exposure over a season. Our two-step Rust Check process is specifically designed for this kind of daily-driver exposure. The penetrating drip formula seeps into every door cavity, rocker panel, and frame seam, while the dripless Coat & Protect undercoat shields exposed metal underneath. Whitby drivers who commute to Oshawa or Toronto and back every day see the most benefit from annual treatment booked every fall.
From Whitby, take Highway 2 East (Dundas St) through Courtice to Bowmanville, or take the 401 East to the Liberty St exit. Turn right onto Baseline Rd E.
Whitby has the highest commuter density in Durham. The 401 corridor through south Whitby sees constant brine treatment from late November through March. Highway 2 (Dundas St), Brock St, Garrard Rd, and Taunton Rd all get repeated municipal salt application. Daily commuters to Toronto rack up hundreds of kilometres a week through the worst of the highway salt season, and that exposure compounds inside door panels, rocker panels, frame rails, and floor pans over a single winter. Brooklin family vehicles add a different exposure profile: less highway, but more time parked at school and rink lots where snow melt and salt slush sit against tires and lower panels for hours at a time. Modern factory rust protection has improved, but it does not reach the hidden cavities where corrosion actually starts. Our two-step Rust Check is built for the exposure level Whitby vehicles actually face.
Every Rust Check here is two services in one, and both products are oils. The first is a creeping rust inhibitor, a thin penetrating formula sprayed into door cavities, rocker panels, pinch welds and frame seams through factory drains and small access holes. It creeps the way water and salt do, displacing moisture and leaving an oil film in the places rust actually starts. The second is Coat & Protect, a thick oil-based undercoat across the exposed underbody, which stays flexible instead of cracking. That second step is included free with every full Rust Check, which is not the industry norm.
The vehicle goes up on the hoist first and gets inspected: existing rust, blocked drain holes, previous undercoating, and anything that needs extra attention gets noted before any product comes out. Drain holes get cleared, because a blocked drain is a cavity holding water. Then the penetrating formula goes into the cavities through the factory drains and access points, doors, rockers, pinch welds, frame rails, hood and trunk channels, fender lips. Then Coat & Protect goes across the exposed underbody, wheel wells, frame rails and suspension components, but never inside the door cavities, because a thick oil in there clogs the drains the manufacturer put in for a reason. Then every drilled hole gets its grommet back and the vehicle gets a final check.
Whitby has Rust Check dealers, and we still get a steady flow of Whitby customers. Most came over after a referral, or after trying us once for a detail and noticing the difference. We are a licensed Rust Check dealer that also runs a full detail shop, ceramic coating shop, and paint correction shop under one roof. We do not pressure-sell services your vehicle does not need. We do not switch you onto rubberized undercoating to upsell the ticket. The same week every fall, we see customers from Brooklin, downtown Whitby, Pringle Creek, Lynde Creek, and Whitby Shores. Many of them have been booking with us since we opened in 2009.
Rubberized undercoatings are common at dealerships and quick-service shops because they look clean and uniform when first applied. The problem is they crack in Canadian temperature extremes and trap moisture against the metal underneath, which can accelerate corrosion instead of preventing it. For Whitby vehicles facing 401-grade brine and city salt every winter, that trapped-moisture failure is especially bad. Our oil-based Coat & Protect undercoat never fully dries, stays in continuous contact with the metal, and self-heals minor damage. It will not crack, peel, or chip. We do not offer rubberized undercoating because we have spent fifteen years watching what it does to vehicles in Ontario.
Friendly service and they even fit me in ahead of time. Thoroughly coated my vehicle with rust check. Highly recommended. Protect your investment!
Been taking my Tacoma here for 3 years now, would recommend. Very liberal and thorough with oil not missing anything. Flexible guy and easy to book with. Got 2 vehicles done back to back this year and will be back next year.
I had my first rust check done recently with my newly acquired Lexus. The service was fantastic and everyone there is so friendly and knowledgeable. I will continue to use Rust Check yearly so my beautiful car will last! I also recommend their detailing service, they do a flawless job every time.
We recently had our Buick interior detailed and a rust check undercoating completed and we are more than pleased with the service. For a small fee, they even picked up the SUV and brought it back. Staff are very pleasant to deal with. Excellent service!