Spring is a time when all kinds of technical sores can “creep” out of a car. The latter include the consequences of exposure to aggressive anti-icing reagents. In winter, while it is cold, chemical reactions, including metal oxidation, proceed slowly – due to the laws of physics. But with the arrival of heat, corrosion is activated. With this circumstance, the phenomenon is actually connected under the common name: “oh, how the car rusted during the winter.” Not for the winter, she’s rusted!
During the winter, she only packed a bunch of salt on the body. Which, at positive temperatures, abruptly began to “eat” the metal, blooming with orange spots on the paint. It is clear that when this process has already started actively, it is too late to “drink Borjomi”, as they say. But it is quite possible to save the t / s from such a potential nuisance. To do this, knock off the salt that has settled on the body. You can rinse it from above at any car wash. But this is not enough.
The main threat of corrosion settles on the “belly” of the car. Of course, you can get confused and go to a specialized sink. But there is an easier and cheaper way.
Fortunately, rain sewers are not always resistant to the drainage of water from the roadway. Impressive pools of meltwater regularly form in such places. And when warm rain falls from the sky in positive weather on the already declining snowdrifts, real “floods” occur everywhere. Any drive at a decent speed (with spray on the sides) through such a puddle in the spring is a blessing for the car. Streams of water beating from under the wheels wash away the layers of “winter” salt in the most bizarre nooks and crannies of the soil, relieving it of a corrosive “load”.
For example, in the spring it is immediately advisable to “hook” through the puddles more often. With due observance of some mandatory rules. First, don’t do this if the spray from under the wheels of the car can extinguish a pedestrian. Secondly, the water level in a “reservoir” suitable for such procedures should not reach the bottom of the bumper so that it is not torn off by a wave.
Third, before doing a “high speed bottom wash”, you should first explore the condition of the asphalt at the bottom of the puddle. And to carry out the plan only if the surface of the water does not hide something like a powerful pit in the asphalt or an open sewer manhole beneath it.
Spring is a time when all kinds of technical sores can “creep” out of a car. The latter include the consequences of exposure to aggressive anti-icing reagents. In winter, while it is cold, chemical reactions, including metal oxidation, proceed slowly – due to the laws of physics. But with the arrival of heat, corrosion is activated. With this circumstance, the phenomenon is actually connected under the common name: “oh, how the car rusted during the winter.” Not for the winter, she’s rusted!
During the winter, she only packed a bunch of salt on the body. Which, at positive temperatures, abruptly began to “eat” the metal, blooming with orange spots on the paint. It is clear that when this process has already started actively, it is too late to “drink Borjomi”, as they say. But it is quite possible to save the t / s from such a potential nuisance. To do this, knock off the salt that has settled on the body. You can rinse it from above at any car wash. But this is not enough.
The main threat of corrosion settles on the “belly” of the car. Of course, you can get confused and go to a specialized sink. But there is an easier and cheaper way.
Fortunately, rain sewers are not always resistant to the drainage of water from the roadway. Impressive pools of meltwater regularly form in such places. And when warm rain falls from the sky in positive weather on the already declining snowdrifts, real “floods” occur everywhere. Any drive at a decent speed (with spray on the sides) through such a puddle in the spring is a blessing for the car. Streams of water beating from under the wheels wash away the layers of “winter” salt in the most bizarre nooks and crannies of the soil, relieving it of a corrosive “load”.
For example, in the spring it is immediately advisable to “hook” through the puddles more often. With due observance of some mandatory rules. First, don’t do this if the spray from under the wheels of the car can extinguish a pedestrian. Secondly, the water level in a “reservoir” suitable for such procedures should not reach the bottom of the bumper so that it is not torn off by a wave.
Third, before doing a “high speed bottom wash”, you should first explore the condition of the asphalt at the bottom of the puddle. And to carry out the plan only if the surface of the water does not hide something like a powerful pit in the asphalt or an open sewer manhole beneath it.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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