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No, I don't think it had the under hood pad. The car was totally repainted, color change, about 15 years ago. But they did a bad job and the car never got finished.

The code for factory undercoating with the hood pad is J25 I think. I don't have it on my fender pad. The undercoating sure looks like the factory stuff but I don't know for sure. After all this work scraping it off I really hate to re undercoat it again.

With the wheel wells, were they all done standard at the factory or was that part of the under coating and hood pad option? It seems to make sense that I at least replace the undercoating in the wheel wells to prevent chipping.

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With the wheel wells, were they all done standard at the factory or was that part of the under coating and hood pad option? It seems to make sense that I at least replace the undercoating in the wheel wells to prevent chipping.

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With the wheel wells, were they all done standard at the factory or was that part of the under coating and hood pad option? It seems to make sense that I at least replace the undercoating in the wheel wells to prevent chipping.

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Wheel wells were always done , both front and rear along with a small area above the pinion snubber and maybe the tail of the trans above the spinning u joint ...

I'll let Scott or someone with more knowledge there correct this one ... I stopped paying attention to what's right a long time ago because most restored cars are wrong .

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On non undercoate ordered cars the front wheel wells were often NOT undercoated (more correctly referred to as sound deadener) when from the Los Angeles assembly plant. In addition the rears were often dine very sparingly with only small amounts getting on the surrounding areas like the has tank etc.

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On non undercoate ordered cars the front wheel wells were often NOT undercoated (more correctly referred to as sound deadener) when from the Los Angeles assembly plant. In addition the rears were often dine very sparingly with only small amounts getting on the surrounding areas like the has tank etc.

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I didn't know that Scott.

One thing I have been trying to determine is if the front on my 69 383 Dart (hamtramack) was not undercoated when built. I can't say for sure because front fenders have been replaced from a front end collision back around 1980, but it looks to have never been done when new ????

Can't remember seeing gas tank undersides done on non undercoated cars but heree in the northeast everything I have stripped has been undercoated usually.

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I was under the impression that it was applied from the dealer. I could be wrong, done that before. My car was built in St. Louis. The car has undercoating on it. All I can say is that I'm removing it now to paint. With the coating, it has saved my car from the cancerous rust. With that, now I'm debating whether or not to re-apply it after paint.

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Some cars got full undercoating from the factory, some were done at the dealership and some weren't undercoated at all (except the wheelwells as mentioned previously).

Obviously the undercoating has helped preserve the car and so the answer as to what to do depends on you: what are your plans for the car?

In my case, my car will never see snow, never see a dirt road and rain will be avoided; it won't be going out of it's heated shop in the winter and will likely only get driven a few times a month seasonally....therefore there is no need whatsoever for full undercoating and I like being able to see everything under the car clearly. I also think that should I ever sell the car, buyers will also want to clearly see the condition of the underside of the unibody.

Now, if you are planning on using your car as a year round daily driver, I'd put the undercoating back on.




Dave