Take a good care of your Car
Take a good care of your Car
Shiny and clean the car comes from the dealer. But very soon the road will change this. This allows the external and internal condition of the vehicle not only to draw conclusions about the driver, but also has a direct impact on the resale and the resale value.
Our tips and hints for inside and outside help your vehicle quickly to its former glory.
Spring cleaning
Early spring you can see them again: the long queues at the car washes. However, a short ride through the car wash is not enough to really make frühlingsfit his car. In addition to the thorough cleaning are a few things to check, it covered repairs to smaller and tires must be changed. If you follow some tips, will protect their set of wheels from winter damage and can now drive to the carefree spring.
Basic cleaning – inside and outside
The first step to fresh spring car ride to the car wash. Here one should, however, only the basic program do not, but one that also includes engine and underbody wash laundry. Road salt is in fact a true killer underbody, rust is the result. Recommend a car wash is not with nylon brush works, but with brushes made of microfiber Strip. These spare the paint and prevent small scratches.
Who Convertible is moving or has enough time and leisure, which goes to a designated wash area and engages himself to a sponge and water bucket. Warning: These places have dirt filters and oil separators, thereby preventing damage to the environment. Furthermore, the car wash in the driveway or in nature is strictly prohibited and attracts severe penalties with it. Wash your car by hand, one should not miss the wheel arches forget, as much dirt and salt residue gather here and furthermore one should ever have a power washing the pressure washer to make with as electronic components and ignition in the engine compartment is very sensitive to such Treatment would react.
Is the car washed and dried, seal worth a car wax. This milky liquid is applied with a soft cloth and, after drying, then the powdered residue polishing away with cotton wool.
Next, take then the interior from the car. The main problem of winter is the moisture that gets into the interior. This is due to wet clothes and shoes, snow remains on the floor mats, coupled with the fact that air conditioning is little used in winter and windows closed and remain. Sun interior can not dry quickly, making it a musty odor and mold, at worst rust. The moisture brings you the best with newspaper or microfiber cloth to the body, which one night in the foot spreads about. According to this measure the windows always fog nor should the cabin air filter be replaced.
If the car is dry now, to clean the seats. Fabric or suede seat upholstery cleaner can be foamed with commercial. After this has dried, the seats can be sucked off the rest of the interior together with. For leather seats, a lubricating cleaners are used, otherwise fast small cracks and fractures in the material form.
Now just need the glass, plastic panels and the dashboard cleaned. This is the best window cleaner. One should forget the interior cleaning is not the trunk. Snow, spade, de-icer spray washer antifreeze and other winter accessories are no longer needed and consumes unnecessary fuel.
The boot is cleared out and cleaned, should the condition of the spare tire and look for the content of the first aid kit. During this thorough overhaul of his car, one should also take a look at shock absorbers, vehicle electronics and the vehicle battery. Here we removed the corrosion at the poles and on occasion, the acid density can check.
Paint repair
Mostly we discovered after the small cleaning damage vehicle paint. These arise in the winter especially thrown up by road salt and grit. How to avoid severe corrosion damage, you should now inflict damage with body paint markers on the move. These are available either at the dealership, or even in well-stocked hardware stores. The color code of the coating can be found in his vehicle documents or on a sticker, which is usually in the trunk id.
Check door and window seals
Like to forget when cleaning the rubber seals on the doors and windows, but the wiper blades. While dirty and damaged rubber seals moisture penetration and thus lead to rust and mildew to be defective wiper blades to the real danger on the road. The rubber seals should be checked for damage, then they will be cleaned with warm soapy water and a silicone-coated with care. The wiper blades are the cold brittle made by or used on Eisresten torn through. They should be replaced immediately.
Dampening switch
The winter is over, so it is important that the water of the washing system is also changed. Antifreeze is no longer necessary, but it is worth the use of a water additive, the insects away from the disk.
Tire change is coming
After the winter again reared the summer, as is commonly also says “Summer is gone from O to O ‘(Easter to October). Winter over summer, “The use up” should be avoided, for the following reasons: summer tires are made of a different rubber compound and have a different profile. Thus they provide better handling in the summer, and the rolling resistance decreases. This increases safety and reduces the fuel consumption.
The tire change can be, if you do not own the trusts, little money in the workshop can make one for, in immediately for the correct tire pressure will be taken care of in. Here, you can if necessary also ask whether there is a possibility, the store does not currently required to have winter tires. Many shops offer their customers this service for a small storage fee.
If you switch the tires themselves, we must even for the correct air pressure in the tires also provide. Information on the required pressure is found on a sticker on the driver’s door, in the gas cap or course, in the vehicle documents. To reduce rolling resistance, you should always take the maximum recommended air pressure, even if the car is unloaded. But whether the tires mounted even have been or in the workshop, after 50 km the lug nuts tightened. Prior to the entry of the winter they should be the same damage, dirt and tread depth check up at the next winter-wish-Winter sold out when-not experiencing unpleasant surprise.
Small foreign bodies, such as gravel, can profile be removed well from the knitting needle with a. Caution is advised when a foreign body from sharp metal pins, broken glass and the like exist. Then the tire must be examined carefully whether the sharp objects have damaged the tire. In the tire shop, the technician said quickly whether a repair is advisable or whether the tire to be replaced. For the investigation of the tread you put a one-euro coin in the profile. Is gold edge to see nothing more of the sufficient profile for the next winter from that. More precisely, we can determine the profile with a tester, an instrument, the hardware store for less money is available in each. The tread depth should be at least 5 millimeters. If this is checked everything, you can store the tires: a dry place, lying down or in a so-called tree hanging on rims. Before storing it marked on the respective winter tires with chalk the position of the car.
Cabrio Care
What is important when the convertible top care?
The time of the latest convertibles breaks at the end of winter. Convertible tops had to endure a lot over the season, so now is a thorough maintenance and repair minor damage first duty. The care can be easily accomplished alone, more damage you should quickly leave a professional for repair. Minor damage to roof and windows can be but with little technical skill and the “How to get” even in the grip
Softtop and Hardtoppflege (pre-cleaning, cleaning & waterproofing)
The maintenance of the soft tops (textile hood) is more complex than the hardtop (fixed roof made of aluminum or plastic). With the hard top roofs are either permanently mounted in use, which are removed when needed, or, in newer cars, to the body fixed to roofs, which can be folded in a few segments in the trunk. Hardtops are usually cleaned like the rest of the body. Otherwise, the joints of the roof of the rod are cleaned and lubricated, the top compartment is drained and washed regularly. When the cleaning of soft tops proceeds as follows: In the pre-cleaning dust and dirt are washed off. Here the use of clear, lukewarm water is recommended, the use of high pressure lamps should be avoided because it destroys the impregnation. In the subsequent cleaning residues are insects brushed out carefully and with a soft brush in straight lines, always in one direction. In the transition to the sheet, make sure that the paint is not scratched. The (solvent) detergent, preferably dishwashing detergent or soap should be distributed carefully and sparingly, otherwise a penalty spots. Now the seals on the windows and frames are cleaned. After cleaning, rinse with warm water and the deck should be in the open (in the shade) dry well. In no case shall the canopy in the wet state can be opened, because the formation of mildew, and creases. With plexiglass or Weichkunststoffscheiben delivers a polished best cleaning results. Dust and dirt act like sandpaper on here, namely, the roof-bearing surface and therefore should be removed periodically with a soft, damp cloth. The seals are then treated with a rubber care product. Maintenance of the linkage does not differ to the hardtop. The impregnation is to be renewed approximately every four months. It should be before the date of purchase warrant, however, whether it is suitable to be treated for the top, there can be, for example, wax-containing polymer means dark tops with time fade considerably. When impregnation is essential to ensure perfect cleanliness of the areas to be impregnated, otherwise sealed with dirt and then are almost impossible to remove.
Washing machines: What is important here?
It should be noted that the hand cleaning is the preferred car wash. Plastic covers can, provided that the operating manual of the car provides otherwise, be washed in the washer, preferably in a plant are not working with brushes, but with fabric strips.
Special deck cleaners: How good are they?
Special deck cleaners are needed only for particularly dirty. There are different cleaners for plastic and fabric awnings. Also, for stubborn stains, there are special products. In the application, however, caution is called for, as can occur with misuse bad surprises. Household cleaners and stain removers are taboo!
Rubber and glass care
The rubber seal keeps it smooth with silicone-based care. Plastic discs you should regularly-as described above clean. Nevertheless, they are not in the course of the years better. Light scratches can be polished with special products now on the scratch-out distance, for example, polishing pastes on the market for mobile displays are available, which are also ideal for convertible windows. Is the glass cracked, scratched and discolored, you should think about renewing entirely possibly the hood, as a disc changes alone are sometimes not worthwhile. To conserve disk, there are special trading schooner glass that are placed when you open the hood below the disc. It can act this is covered with foam cushion material, with some skill you sew yourself. Resourceful convertible owners have discovered, however, that satisfy the so-called “pool noodles or pipe casing made of soft foam the same purpose.
What to do about cracks in the fabric top?
If cracks, the car upholstery, the first address is to receive assistance. Anyone that owns a degree of craftsmanship, one can try to repair small tears. There are special roof-repair kits for fabric or PVC roof system. It is generally id from cut to size repair pieces in various colors and highly heat-resistant adhesive. But it is also without these “professional” repair kits. For the repair is needed: cleaning solvent, water-resistant, permanently flexible adhesive strength, adhesive tape and clothespins. First, the surfaces to be cleaned residue with benzene. (Before cleaning, please make sure in an inconspicuous place!). Now the deck are bonded. A popular adhesive manufacturer has an adhesive in the program, which is waterproof and elastic. This is important because rain and vibrations are high demands on the adhesive. The adhesive is (applied as per instructions) to fill the bonding surfaces, and these are then fixed with adhesive tape and clothespins. After adequate drying then adhesive tape and staples are removed, rubbed off adhesive residue.
Discoloration or fading
If the substance of the hood faded or stained, it can be dyed with special funds from the aftermarket. Even a recoloring is the top color is no problem. is to look for in the products the following properties: color, care, impregnation, wash resistance and abrasion resistance
What is important in the winter?
Should we assume to be convertible in the winter, the shelter should be dry and well ventilated. The hood is close, but the windows must remain open slightly. The tire pressure should be increased slightly and to the battery, a battery of so-called trainers are connected. This loads and unloads the car battery and continuously simulates the normal driving. Winters not the convertible in the garage in winter but will continue to be used to note something: The plastic rear window must never freigekratzt with the ice scraper, but be careful with the Enteiserspray free of ice. This in turn may not reach the substance of the hood. In addition, note that frozen at minus temperatures and the deck is in the bright sunshine, and therefore must not be opened, otherwise it could break the material. Before the winter of course a conscientious impregnating and lubricating of all rubber parts is, of course. Possibly you can also inquire whether the manufacturer of the convertible model also offers a hard-top, as this would probably have a heated rear window made of glass. This would then allow ice scraper again and it would penetrate less moisture into the interior.
In winter car care
Is your car ready for the winter?
In winter car care is often neglected. Snow, dirt, and aggressive means attack the paint, the mechanics and the electrics very violently.
How can you best car in the winter from the environment to protect his and which details to look for?
Winterfit
Firstly, you should before the winter the car thoroughly clean the still winter and strength to control. By cleaning to prevent that debris in the run attaches and influenced by snow, road salt and dust themselves in paint and metal einfrisst.
It is also recommended rubber seals, moving parts, such as door hinges, control and door locks and wait if necessary. Rubber gaskets should be sprayed with silicone oil. This prevents the formation of cracks and makes the rubber more resistant to low temperatures.
Furthermore fluids is to check the status of all in the car and determine their winter suitability. Coolant, engine oil, and of course the cleaning water must endure freezing temperatures, only not, above all, they must be of sufficient quantity available in. It should not be in the wrong place to save and high quality brands for cheaper vendors do without. Quality has now times its price. Frozen pipes and thus may pose risks should not be underestimated.
Nano sealing
If one has checked the car, cleaned and refilled all, one is spoiled for choice. In many places, be offered called Nano sealing. Especially in winter, this treatment will bring numerous benefits.
When Nano sealing the vehicle, in some cases completely, covered with an adhesive fluid, which then dries and then polished wird.Es are different types of applications and the Nano sealing. Sometimes you can even do it yourself.
The complexity of the process should not be left out of eight. Best to let a professional to seal the car. You pay in the end only marginally more confident and the quality of the result.
A Nano sealing allows water, dirt and other substances on the vehicle less any liability. the so-called lotus effect bubbled through dirt and grime from the car from a formal, nothing sticks. So you have the car wash less often and the paint is protected.
The wheels and chrome parts benefit from sealing.
When the car windows Nano sealing also has a meaning. Water runs off faster and more efficiently on the discs. The visibility is improved substantially and the safety and comfort are increased significantly. It should be noted however that most of the discs separately, and other means to seal with an are. This work should be a specialist can make just as good visibility is essential and important to a faulty seal could have very negative effect one.
Now you have prepared the car. Everything is controlled externally, is sealed inside all winter. A few dangers of winter, one is still not filed.
Getting through the winter
Freezing rain, snow not only makes the road Icy, he can complete the car with an impenetrable layer of ice cover as well. Freeze solid doors, locks can not be more open. In such situations, it should be a small bottle of a lock defroster it always have to.
In a very short time, the lock is freed from the annoying ice and you can open the door again.
is best tackled not with the ice scraper, the slightly unsightly marks on glass and lacquer discs can cause Vereiste, but with a de-icer spray, a few moments, even the thickest ice thaws in.
It is also advisable in the car a snow brush with long handle carry. If the vehicle is sometimes snowed heavily, helps the brush to remove the snow from the roof. This will avoid the snow slides in maneuvers on the windshield and obscured the view or hide the man behind.
To avoid frozen and fogged windows
Tip from reader
Always use the lever to provide fresh air, unless one heats minus 15 ° C in the car on, but then only as long as nötig.Grund: The air in the interior is in circulation through the human breath always damp and mists / condenses on the cold slices.
Blower at level 1, the temperature inside the controller and not always adjust on / off the blower. Reason: A minimum throughput of air is necessary for fresh drier air into the car and push the old in the back window of the forced ventilation rauszujagen. If after heating up too hot, heating controls and colder place the blower can be turned on.
Slices kept closed while the blower so that air is forced to flow through the entire carriage.
wet weather, rain and cold temperatures combined with air heating run at, because they dehumidify the air.
Winter Spüliwasser brush the slices with the then consists not so fast the dirt from the disc on. The dirt also favors the shoe.
However, should the car stay the night humidity: a bag of salt (about 2 kg fresh daily to the car set) -> withdraws moisture
Conclusion
Even before the onset of winter should be cleaned thoroughly and vehicle control. This prevents you unpleasant surprises afterwards.
Also recommended a nano sealant. It not only protects the paint, thus ensuring a better value preservation of the automobile, sealed windows improve visibility and increase safety.
Furthermore, one must correct winter equipment they carry. Schlossenteiser should dabeihaben at best. In the car should not be missing and Windscreen snow sweepers.
If you think of this advice and invested some time and money in the preparation of the vehicle, winter loses much of its terror. Both the car, as well as the nerves and the purse are also spared.
Car Interior Care
Notes to thoroughly clean your car.
Every car owner has ever experienced such a situation. As it is taking a weekend family outing with the children and on Monday you’ll experience the unpleasant surprise. The car interior is totally dirty, smudged the windows and the cushions have also seen better days. In such cases, an interior cleaning is called for.
Basic cleaning
Before the individual cleaning stages dare to come before the thorough cleaning with a vacuum cleaner. Previously, to remove any loose parts that can be absorbed and possibly with the foot and floor mats. After the bags are thoroughly ground, and the upholstery, as well as the storage space and aspirated. Especially when the seats are sure that it also sucks in the cracks, since this is where the main dirt deposits. Before the mats again puts the car in, they will be tapped and sucked away. The Staubsaugvorgang That concludes not. Also the trunk must be vacuumed regularly. There should also take out the removable shelf and up under the spare wheel suck. This one should use the same way as on its functioning, to check the spare. Then begins the second cleaning stage.
The simplest method of choice has become a normal household cleaner proved that water is dissolved in warm. With a soft cloth – preferably suitable microfiber cloths – windows are all plastic parts such as cockpit, arms and wiped away the wet. With a second cloth then dried. The windows and the interior mirror can be a conventional window cleaners and household wipes the easiest and most thorough clean some.
Upholstery cleaning
The cushions need special cleaning. If these are dirty even more, it is advisable to use an upholstery cleaner on a foam base. This is sprayed onto the cushions and then the foam padding incorporated into the brush means. After a certain contact time the pads are removed with a vacuum cleaner. In this manner you removed the dirt from the depths of the cushions.
Since the cushions get wet here, should such a deep cleaning only one carry in the warm season, maybe because the humidity in winter and dries it so mold can come to.
Even the floor mats can be cleaned this way on. Only here will be used instead, a carpet cleaner.
What types of cleaners should be noted that in that the color of the substance may possibly impair. It is vital, therefore, read the instructions and cleaner first on a small inconspicuous area to test.
For special stains in the upholstery should be selected cleaners or resort to tricks of the housewives. Children like to chew gum and it moves quickly to the pad, where he correctly sticking Sun chewing gum and other viscous materials are best removed, in which one it briefly with an ice spray einsprüht that freezing the Sun In this way, the chewing gum can be scraped off so easily by the cushion. Even chocolate is easy to remove Sun Important thing is not that these places after the scraping with a wet cloth and dabbing it rubs on it. Into the dirt because that is rubbed into the fabric.
Leather Cleaning
Many cars have a leather interior. Leather seats are the easiest to start slightly wet wiped. It is important that the leather is dried again before moving on to further treatment. After the wet cleaning and drying, there are special leather care products, with which the leather of the seats and car interior are treated. These are usually products that keep the leather supple and preserve it from cracking and so protect it. It should be noted here that one leather care and evenly in a single pass of the plotting. Could stain the leather seats are ugly avoided. This is especially noticeable in very bright leather products. Here, too, is that one of the care product previously on a small, hidden area tests to make sure that the color and the leather does not alter negative.
Interior plastic cleaned properly
Finally, we still maintain the cockpit or the plastic parts inside the vehicle. There is this so-called cockpit sprays, which simply taps after cleaning the einsprüht. Are better suited, however, pastes and creams, soft cloth which will be applied to the cockpit with a . In the care should be taken that this move quickly and not leave a dry and lubricating film.
As for cleaning must not be forgotten is the maintenance of the door seals with wax and oil products, so that it does not freeze in winter.
Before the car moving again, should make it good to aerate, so that no more moisture in the cushions, rugs or other interiors present.
How often has this way to clean the car this depends of course on the use of the vehicle. A complete cleaning of all the above points should be in the spring, summer and autumn. Otherwise, every two weeks to absorb the interior and wet wipe. The windows should be cleaned every time, because they ensure that the driver has a clear vision.
If you car does not even clean or may not find time for professional cleaning can for car interiors might call it. It is his car from there and according to the contract brings to his car, inside and outside top cultivated again.
Car Care
The cleaning of one’s own vehicle is a science for many motorists. The science is so essential in fact, manageable steps to get the best result. The road to the car wash is definitely the most convenient, but the result is often not optimal. In addition, the prices are usually called quite steep and in the worst case results in the much-loved vehicle even damage. Cheaper and better it is, then, if you simply grab a bucket and even a marketing assistant.
Car Wash
Those who always washes his car in the car wash, which should at least ensure that the investment trusts in a gentle textile cloths. The conventional bristles dull after many washes off and cause minor scratches on the paint. These are especially visible in the sun and are simply unnecessary. Often leave the car wash operators to realize bristles longer in use, finally, they also want to cut costs.
A car wash is going soft textile and caused solely by the construction of any scratches. However, there is also no guarantee for it, finally, the predecessor have had a very dirty car. Beautiful then small particles or pebbles from the cloths are massaged in the paint. In this case, liability is not even of the operators.
Furthermore, care should be taken when using a car wash on the necessary ground clearance and maximum vehicle height. Vehicles with a deep-laid vehicle can be cleaned only in plants that have no surveys. Particularly high vehicles have to resort to car washes that do for trucks.
Hand wash and polish
The better off everything when you wash his car with his hand. One should also note a few things that otherwise makes you look more work than necessary.
The best start is made at a wash box with a pressure washer. For a few euros you can free his vehicle from the rough dirt and free, especially in winter, the underbody from dangerous salt. Special wash programs already provide this wash for streak-free shine. On the growth or using a foam brush should do without it, however. The former is not to compare with a good car wax and also the dirty windows, similar to the second car wash scratched the paint. The handle to a sponge and bucket is also possible, but can also cause scratches and is prohibited also on the road. A trip to the washing area so inevitable.
If the vehicle is clean, it must be of second-. With a soft cloth remaining dirt particles to be wiped from the paint. At the same time it looks like whether some jobs need more intensive treatment. If the vehicle is dry, the car in general is like new. A car wash the other hand, always leave water spots or streaks.
The result is rounded off with a wax seal. In the liquid wax is applied with a dry cloth to clean the vehicle and after a short drying again polished away. To each soft cloth or microfiber cloths are suitable. Depending on vehicle age and Lackzustand a normal range without polishing wax particles. Weathered or faded paint should be treated with a polish. Thus, an ink layer removed, thus intensifying the color again.
Besides the splendid sight, is a waxed car also far less susceptible to new pollution. Rainwater runs off and washes off easily with contamination. Small water droplets after the rain to prove the good condition of the car wax. Quite enjoyable, in addition, that bird droppings or insect residue can not burn so easily.
Sealing
If the vehicle after cleaning is still dirty or has easily formed rust or tree sap on the paint, then there is special paint cleaner in stores. These cleaners dissolve the rest and also take up remaining wax. After treatment, the paint is complete again virgin, however, a subsequent sealing with wax needed.
The vehicle is to shine but not only, but also in the interior make a good impression. First, you should suck the car and knock off the floor mats. With a plastic cleaner can freshen up the colors again. Besides, take anti-static cloth to the last dust. For vehicles with leather upholstery, we recommend a special leather cleaners. This also refreshes the leather color, thus providing for a longer preservation of the new state.
Cleaning the windows
The cleaning of the discs for most horror. Finally, we think of when you brush: Wow, the disc is clean again. The first solar radiations or unfavorable light of oncoming traffic can see again strip. There is no panacea, it does not, but you should never clean the discs in the blazing sun. At best it is in a garage or on cool days. Warm slices also promote the formation of streaks. As cloth is also a microfiber cloth or a soft paper roll. The advantage of the microfiber is the absolute freedom of booze.
Conclusion
The car wash takes one if you want to do it carefully and well, more time than going to a car wash. Ensure the car stays on for a long time without any artificial scratches.
