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You will surely notice how impressive it looks wet, freshly washed car. Covered with drops of water, she sparkles and shimmers in the light, like new. Unfortunately, it lasts a short time, the water dries up, the body fades and becomes visible all the small grooves and scratches.

Available in a great many different products for the care of the exterior and interior, add luster and shine, and old and new cars. In movies and television programs can often be seen as a good-natured Americans and Europeans are carefully rub their pets to a mirror shine.

With our dirt road, especially in the off-season, it would seem unwise to spend money on special shampoos and polishes and polish to five minutes again dirty car. Let's try to prove that cosmetic we need not less, but even more than in other countries. Not least because it is not only shining purity, it is first of all - protection against external harmful influences, of which in our climate zone abound: big temperature changes, "the salt cocktail" in the winter, dust, sand, scratching the paint as sandpaper, stones , leaving a small crack in the enamel - in the summer. Add to this already become a reality acid rain, ultraviolet radiation, burns the color pigments of the paint and make your car washed out and dull, poor color quality of domestic cars.

No one doubts the need for anti-corrosion treatment and the bottom threshold. And if you hotit preserve the appearance of the exterior and interior in its original form, without car care can not do. This is especially true of new cars. Enamels some of them are made on the basis of water - such a composition is less harmful to the production of (environmentally sound). However, they are not as durable as conventional synthetic and therefore more vulnerable. Treatment begins with a car wash. Just clean water are unlikely to be to remove all grime, oil stains or wood resin, although the rinse water is still worth to wash away small stones and sand, which can scratch the paint. Than wash? In no case do not detergent, baking soda or household detergents, for example, for cleaning tiles or pottery. The mud they "eat" perfectly, but no less actively destroy the paint and penetrating through the cracks, causing corrosion of the metal. So, "bathe" your pet needs only car shampoo and always a special fine-pored sponge, which holds the grains of sand to prevent scratches on the surface of the body.

Memorize, gentlemen, remember.

Autoshampoos sold in the market can be divided into two groups: those with low and high wax content. The former contain dissolved surfactants, "pulls" (extraction) from the surface of the mud. Shampoo is easily washed off with water, leaving a thin layer of wax. At second detergent composition comprises a solvent and a wax content and higher order polymers. In fact, this shampoo and polish "in one bottle." Such drugs are very popular in the Scandinavian countries, they are especially convenient to use in the late autumn, winter and early spring, when, because of the low temperature is difficult to put much thickened polish - washed the car and the body has been processed. However, usability is inevitably reflected in the price - usually a shampoo 2-5 times more expensive than usual.

To prevent the formation of spots or uneven drying and raspolirovat wax is recommended to rub the body with a soft cloth, and best of all artificial suede, which is sold separately in a plastic case. She has served you for years. After washing, you can proceed to the processing of paint. If the car is not treated for several years, if ever, it probably makes sense to apply the so-called color restorer. The fact that the aging of the unprotected upper enamel layer of paint under the influence of the external environment is softened and tarnish. In the reduction of color provides the fine abrasive powder with a cleaning composition that gently removes the outer "dead" layer and at the same time somewhat evens the surface, helping to clear chronic stubborn dirt stains.

If, finally, after washing the body, you suddenly found traces of incipient corrosion, do not despair: small stains can be easily removed rust converter. They interact with rust, leaving a further corrosion-resistant film - passivated metal and usually require no special surface preparation. Although the conversion process is happening right before our eyes, it all depends on the spot size and depth of penetration of corrosion. For large spots treatment will have to be repeated several times with short intervals. After treatment, the damaged area will need to embellish.

Now that the body is fully prepared, you can apply polish to give more shine the car and, most importantly, protect the body from the aggressive environment. The polish? The question is rather complicated, as this part of cosmetics for cars represented most widely. Polishing Body, plastic plates and bumper to chrome and wheels, colorless and coloring effect, liquid and pasty, with abrasives, and not - for every taste and wallet size. There are, of course, universal polish brighteners painted panels, bumpers, chrome parts, glass, and even the tires. They are more interested in people who care first and foremost about the appearance of the vehicle and its image. But the defensive abilities of these drugs can not be very high, because the surface properties of different materials vary greatly. For perfect protection every material requires processing of "their" specific composition.

So the body. For new or nearly new cars are ideal colorless polish, they are relatively cheap and easy to use. Some of them contain PTFE and polymers sverhskolzheniya forming after polishing is very smooth surfaces prevent dirt buildup. If the car is much like paint and dotted with scratches from sand and stones or improper washing, preferably colored polishes. They are thick, to put them a little harder than colorless, but they are well filled and camouflages minor risks and abrasions on the enamel. But do not forget that the polish - no paint, and in the case of deep and wide scratches will not be able to replace it. Polishing enter into an electrochemical reaction with lacquer coating, for their complete "hardening" It takes about a day, so they are applied in the garage or in the open air in warm weather and, of course, not in the rain.

And the usefulness of cosmetics in our harsh environment. Agree dirty Discard cloudy after winter, jammed "caretakers" of glass on background shining body looks like "a thorn in the eye," in addition to travel with such lenses safe: through them difficult to see the road, especially at night or when driving towards the sun. One careful not to remove the bathing countless scratches left by sand, wiper blades, as well as raising and lowering the side windows. Waxes and silicones containing conventional polishes can give turbidity, so it's best to use a special glass cleaners with polishing and protective effect. It cleans the surface and simultaneously smoothes the small risks, making the glass more transparent. Well, if you treat the outer surface of the preparation of a series of "antirain" and the washer tank cleaner splash season, the outside world from the car and did appear in a different light.

There are other items that change with time its original appearance and spoiling the appearance of the machine, such as bumpers and wheels. Black plastic bumpers soon become gray, mud easily penetrates into the porous surface of the plastic, and no shampoo it out do not get it. For such cases produce cleaner, bumper returns "native" black and at the same time covering it with a protective film.

For chrome and aluminum parts sold products containing a small amount of abrasives and polishing compounds to give shine. They can handle and wheels, but for them to develop their products. For fans there is even a special agent for the care of the tires.

It sets out a "spring cleaning", a sin not to take care of the interior, because we do not we go on and inside the vehicle. A vacuum cleaner and a damp cloth can be achieved significant results, but everything has its predeley. For example, the front panel, as well as black bumpers feature a dim and fade in the sun and just the same treatment requires some polish. Wash fabric seat upholstery and fuzzy water with detergent, you can, of course, if you have the time and opportunity to wait a few days until they are dry, without using a car. A good alternative that can serve as aerosol cleaners upholstery. White foam is instantly absorbed, clean cloth and dries very quickly, leaving a transparent protective layer - accidentally spills simply wipe away. The only perhaps disadvantage - high consumption of resources and the high cost of treatment, respectively.

At the end of a provocative question - is it worth? Maybe so come down? Fortunately the traffic police to the appearance not much niggles, and technical parameters of the purity of the car has little effect. But imagine that the car will have to sell. On that first of all pay attention to the buyer? That's right, the appearance will look like a body - not "rotten" it? It is necessary to spend 10-20 dollars a year on cosmetics, not to worry at least on this occasion, and will agree to ride in a clean, sparkling car is much nicer. By the way, according to statistics, these cars are less likely to get into an accident. Why - I do not know, but the fact remains.