That might've been something called Kosmolene(sp.?) . As an employee
of a VW dealer during high school, the new VW Beetles came from
Germany with this wax sprayed on them so the ocean's salt water
wouldn't eat the paint up before they got to the US.  It was a bitch
to get off the car even with kerosene.  I didn't last long doing that job!!

I bought some stuff from a British company called WAXOYL that was
purchased from a company here in the US called the Proper MG.  It
comes in an aerosol can(very expensive /oz,) or you can get the pump
can in bulk and shoot it in the cracks that way.  It smells a lot
like the Carnuba wax you protect the painted surfaces with, but I'm
no chemist.  it doesn't spray well when cold, so I kinda blew it
off.  I really like the linseed oil idea, if we could only figure out
a way to increase it's viscosity so it wouldn't drip so badly.

DM&FS

At 08:45 AM 8/17/2009, Allan Streib wrote:
>VW used something like a heavy waxy/oily undercoating... I remember it
>oozing out around trim pieces, side marker lamps, etc on hot summer
>days.  This was in a '91 Jetta.  Anyone know if they used the same stuff
>on Vanagons?
>
>Allan
>
>
>On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:58 -0500, "Tom Hargrave" <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET> wrote:
> > Your friend is right. Coating the inner panels with oil once a year is
> > a trick we used to use in the 70s in western NY State. We did this to
> > the beater cars we would drive in the winter. It works, but we used
> > old engine oil and it was a real mess.
> >
> > For this to work, you have to drill access holes and drain holes to
> > all boxed in areas. The access holes are to spray the oil in & the
> > drain holes are for the water & excess oil to drain out.
> >
> > The down sides are - you are always dripping some oil somewhere and
> > you will always have oil stains somewhere on the car body.
> >