Now I have a can that is 98% full, and I probably won’t need any more until a couple of years.
Don’t forget the hood latch too! (when you need to pop the hood, you don’t want that seized up…it happened to me!)
Petition to rename this sub silent_doors_club
Have we efficiently established that making a squeaky door no longer squeaky is the single most dull activity imagineable?
Oh… I can do my car doors too!!
Don’t forget to hit up your house. Door hinges, locks, literally anything metal on metal.
On anything else I use bike chain lube. I once bought a can, because it was the only thing I could find nearby a day I was out of WD40.
My local bike shop had bike chain lubricant that works like WF40, except it does not run off as easily. I now use that for everything where I’d otherwise use WD40.
On my car doors, on the other hand, I avoid oil based lubes. I recently bought a new (to me) car, and I wanted to avoid the oily gunk buildup I had around the door hinges on my old car. One started squeaking, and I noticed some white lube having been used, so I figured it must be lithium grease.
WD40 isn’t a lubricant though. Good thing they upgraded you.
It’s not that simple anymore because WD-40 sells gel, wet, and dry specialist variants that are actually lube under that brand name.
edit: I missed a few. Silicone, chain lube wet/dry, lithium, food-grade
