How to maintain your car during the rainy season

Wash your car to protect the paint, summer is traditionally a rainy season. The continuous rainstorm makes car owners and their cars suffer together. Although the rainy season brings us a lot of inconvenience, but at the same time also enhance the car owners’ awareness of vehicle maintenance. In fact, the car through the “human nature”, usually we take care of it a little more, pay attention to beauty and conditioning, then the car’s anti-aging effect will be better.

Rainy day car wash to protect the car paint

　　Many car owners believe that after the dust on the surface of the vehicle is washed clean by the rain on rainy days, saving the trouble of washing the car. But in fact, if you do not wash your car in time after the rain, it will cause a lot of damage to the paint, so the vehicle cleaning work after the rain is more important than ever. Rainwater often contains impurities and acidic substances, the vehicle was wet by the rain, a long time without cleaning, acidic substances will corrode off the outermost layer of the car paint bright film, the paint will immediately become dull. In addition, the rainwater is mixed with some invisible asphalt chips, dirt and dust, etc., but also easy to adsorb in the body paint. These dirt will be derived from a large number of oxides after sun exposure, and over time will leave indelible scars on the surface of the car paint. Therefore, it is recommended that car owners should clean their vehicles in time after the rain.

　　Car dehumidification, sterilization

　　The summer rainy season is hot and humid, easy to breed germs, and the closed space in the car, more into the breeding ground of germs. So, after the rain stops, you should immediately start the dehumidification and sterilization work, especially for families with children.

　　　It is recommended to find a cool and ventilated place, the car door all open, so that the car moisture can be discharged in a timely manner. Then the car’s footrest pad, seat cover removed, cleaned and dried.

　　The car sterilization method can usually be used ozone disinfection and photocatalytic sterilization two ways. In addition, it can also decompose the harmful gases in the air, to purify the air, deodorization and anti-mold effect. After the rain, the air conditioner will often have the smell of mold, in order to eliminate this smell, there is an easy way is to turn on the air conditioning warm air to the maximum, take turns using a variety of wind patterns, blowing for about 15 minutes. When the air conditioner is working, the temperature of the air outlet can reach 40 ℃ to 50 ℃, so you can evaporate the hot and humid air inside to clear the mold.

　　Repair station comprehensive “physical examination”

　　After the rain, regardless of whether the vehicle has abnormalities, it is best to 4S store to do a comprehensive “physical examination”. Because some hidden problems can not be found on the spot, but the potential harm to the car is extraordinary. For example, heavy rain is easy to make some leaves, dust, etc. attached to the cooling system or engine hatch drainage hole location, if not timely clean up these dirt, will let the efficiency of the cooling system down, leading to mechanical failure. Therefore, after the rain, we should look at the location of the air inlet holes in the engine compartment and cockpit separation parts and the grooves on both sides of the left and right wings to see if there is water in the grooves, such as water, you can take water to flush the air inlet holes and unblock the waterways to ensure the best working condition of the vehicle.

　　After the rain, the car may have an impact on the performance of certain parts of the car due to multiple flooding, which can seriously lead to the car not starting normally. For example, the circuit is likely to short-circuit after encountering water, which will easily cause the engine to be scrapped. Many car owners often drive in the rain for more than a week before they find the vehicle short circuit phenomenon. Therefore, we recommend that even if the engine is running normally after wading in the rain, it is recommended to do some treatment on the circuit equipment in time at the service station. For example, the circuit will be blown dry or wipe dry, and then start preheating. In addition, it is also important to check the brake system. Because the brake system has a very strong adsorption, rain is very easy to enter the brake fluid, which will affect the braking effect, serious may cause brake failure, it is recommended that after the rain to the professional repair station for inspection to prevent future problems.

　　Rain can easily lead to headlights into the water. If you find that there is water mist in the headlights, you can open the headlights and turn on the high beam, see if the water mist in the headlights starts to disappear after 10 minutes, and whether it can disappear completely after an hour, if it disappears, there is no need to worry, but if there is still water mist, you should go to a professional service station for treatment.

　　Car beauty spa

　　The car is made up of thousands of steel parts, the summer temperature is high, rainwater invasion, moisture will seep into the body from the tiny holes in the chassis, so that the body rust, flaking, but the general public is difficult to detect. Therefore, after heavy rain to do some maintenance work on the chassis. In addition to simple cleaning, “chassis armor” is also a good choice. It can make the chassis isolated from the outside world, to achieve the effect of corrosion, rust prevention. Not to do this beauty owners, it is recommended that after the rain stops, hot car, run high speed, can also achieve the effect of natural drying. And the car’s interior cleaning, it is recommended to use professional car interior cleaner, wipe with a dry rag, to prevent the cleaner penetrate CD, stereo, radio and other electrical equipment corrosion of electrical components.

　　After the rain, you also need to carry out the necessary maintenance of the paintwork. The common choices are waxing, paint glazing and coating. These 3 ways can form a bright protective film on the surface of the body, which not only improves the gloss of the original car, but also plays a sealing role to prevent acidic corrosion of the car paint caused by rain. Waxing the lowest cost, the cost of about 100 dollars, the disadvantage is to maintain a short time, generally 1 month will have to repeat once. And sealing glaze brightness and wear degree are better than waxing, the cost is about 400 dollars, generally can keep half a year. The best effect is the coating, the principle is the hard material adsorbed in the car paint surface as if in the car surface coated with a layer of transparent paint. The smoothness and hardness of the paint surface can be greatly enhanced, and can effectively resist ultraviolet rays, acid rain, static dust, water damage, etc. The maintenance time can be up to 3 years. The cost is also correspondingly much more expensive, currently costing 1,000 to 2,000 dollars.