Body rust and surface rust and how to remove it?

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Originally Posted by Max777

Can;t believe no one's mentioned it yet but POR15 is a good product if you need to treat rusty spots on the car. Remove as much of the rust as you can, then treat the area with a naval jelly or some other sort of surface prep chemical, and then go over it with POR-15.

I finally got the chance to actually use it on our college's autocross VW GTI build, and the product is amazing, and tough as hell to boot.

EDIT: Now, we only used it for the underbody/ interior and I dont know how smooth you can get it for body panels because we brushed it on.

Naval jelly is useless. Waste of time and good coin. I personally prefer mechanical methods to removing rust.

I can't say anything about POR products be use I've never used them. I will say that out of the pros and old timers that I've ever dealt with, none of them have ever reccomended any of their products for anything. So I take that and with the knowledge that everyone on the internetz thinks its the cats meow lead me to personally believe that POR is nothing more than internetz, noobie nutswinging hype. But that's just an opinion of someone that's never used it, not intends to, buhas never once had it eecomended to me or even heard of it outside the interwebs