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Winter - not the best season for the car, especially when you walk on the streets, heavily sprinkled with salt. During this period the body to the fullest extent subject to corrosion, and corrosion of its treatment is highly desirable. However, according to some employees of authorized service centers for a number of new cars - especially with galvanized body, the factory processing is sufficient. But if you have, say, new Skoda (not to mention the domestic passenger car), the experts recommend to spend full anticorrosive processing of the bottom, wheel arches and body cavities. It is useful to install and wing flaps. The cost of these services complex averages $ 250-300 and depends mainly on the type of applied protective agents. They are in our market is now represented by a lot. But first of all we should probably pay attention to those which apply in countries with climates similar to ours. It may be Finnish Mercasol AL with aluminum additives, Swedish Noxudol on the metallized basis, Canadian Rust stop or Tektyl. Anti-corrosion treatment requires strict observance of technology, and although almost all manufacturers of protective materials let them into the packaging for domestic use, is still preferable to perform processing in a specialized service center. It is necessary to find out in advance, on what technology it produces. In any case, before applying the protective coating on the underside of the arch and the machine must be cleaned of dirt, washed and dried thoroughly. As anticorrosive processing you do for a few years, it is better to sit in a car outside and personally observe the process. Winter - hard test for body paint. Sudden temperature changes, snow mixed with salt, ice crust - all this leads to the appearance of micro-cracks in the paint. The surface of the body can be protected with a special compound suitable for use at low temperatures, for example, Plus Teflon or Color Magic. Treatment with these drugs is carried out about once a month - after obligatory washing machine and drying it. The question of where to keep the car in the winter, in fact, is usually not worth it - those who have a garage, keep it in the garage, those who do not - on the street. Oddly enough, in terms of preservation of the body (from corrosion, not from theft), between trips and overnight is best to leave the car on the street - with a cold body corrosion process goes more slowly. In cold garage of heat allocated car is enough for it to be a little warm, and melting snow with salt some time actively do the dirty deed. Well, in a warm garage, even if you carefully washed the car from salt from below, it will stand all night wet ...
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