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The Corrosion Task Force of the Automotive/Steel Partnership (A/SP) and the Society of Automotive Engineers' Automotive Corrosion and Prevention (SAE/ACAP) committee are working cooperatively on the development of an improved laboratory test for perforation corrosion. This paper gives the results of testing a set of standard SAE perforation corrosion test specimens for up to 160 cycles in the environment of J 2334, the new SAE cyclic test for cosmetic corrosion. SAE J 2334 was found to provide a clear distinction among the test materials. In general, the results indicate that the perforation corrosion resistance of coated products is much greater than that of cold rolled steel, and that it also increases with coating mass, as well as with application of a barrier organic coating. Magnetite (Fe3O4) was the predominant iron corrosion product found in the crevices of the perforation corrosion test specimens. Smaller amounts of goethite (α-FeOOH) were also found.

A new, standard laboratory test (SAE J 2334) for evaluation of the cosmetic corrosion resistance of autobody steel sheet has been developed through the joint efforts of SAE's Automotive Corrosion Prevention Committee (SAE/ACAP) and the Auto/Steel Partnership's (A/SP) Corrosion Task Force. Results from this test give an excellent correlation with those of on-vehicle tests conducted in Montreal, Quebec, and St. John's, Newfoundland. To establish the precision of the new test, nine laboratories participated in a round-robin evaluation. Each laboratory tested ten standard, painted automotive steel sheet products. The results of this work are analyzed in terms of within-lab repeatability and lab-to-lab reproducibility, and they are an important and final milestone in the development and specification of the new test