Corrosion Prevention - Yamaha V-MAX SHO VF250 Maintenance Manual

DEFEND AGAINST THE ELEMENTS

CORROSION PREVENTION

While your Yamaha Marine dealer can help you with, or even do, most of your
general and preventative maintenance, corrosion mitigation is something you
can only do yourself—and time is of the essence.
Your dealer can help provide the right products to help prevent some
forms of corrosion, but their regular and diligent use is strictly up to you.
The following are answers to common questions about how to mitigate
the presence and damage of corrosion.
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Regardless of where you boat, corrosion
attacks both the inside and the outside of your
outboard—every day, all the time. Some forms
you can see, some you can't, and it can take
only a short time for the damage to begin.
Even those boating in freshwater have
corrosion-mitigation duties to attend to. Why,
even rainwater can have corrosive effects that
can be damaging to your outboard. So it's vital
to be diligent in your anti-corrosion defense.
Where do I need to concentrate my
fight against corrosion?
Corrosion can happen pretty much anywhere on or
in your outboard: inside, in your fuel system or in the
internal cooling water passages, and on the outside,
in various electrical connections and exposed
metal components. But don't worry, you have a lot
of allies on your side, and we're here to help by
teaching you where to look and what to look for.