It often snows this winter. How can I better maintain my car in the snow season?

At the beginning of 2020, a heavy snow fell on some cities in the north. Many citizens are interested in the beautiful scenery brought by heavy snow, but for car owners, it is like a nightmare, because snowy days are harmful to safe driving. In addition to the trite safe driving problems such as speed control and early braking, what are the precautions for car maintenance? Today, Oxcart Lab will take you to talk about the topic of car maintenance in snowy days.

Of course, most of the car maintenance skills mentioned in this article are applicable to outdoor open-air parking spaces. If you can provide a stable underground parking space for your car, it is naturally the best.

Anyway, first of all, let's talk about the preparations before snowfall. In order to prevent snow, many car owners put on their favorite car covers in advance. Parking for a long time is no problem, but if you have to commute by car every day, it is more convenient to clean the snow on the car clothes in the morning than to clean the car body directly. Therefore, for car owners with high car frequency, it is not recommended to use car clothes, which is costly in time.

If you don't cover the car clothes, more preparation work is to prevent the windows from freezing, which will affect driving and delay cleaning time. Before it snows, the owner can stand up the wiper to prevent the window from sticking to the wiper after freezing. If you are worried that the windshield wiper will be easily damaged when it stands up, you can spread a cloth such as a wide sheet on the windshield in advance before it snows, or buy a special half-cover windshield clothing, which can not only prevent the windshield wiper from directly snowing, but also prevent the windshield wiper and the windshield from freezing together.

Another situation is that the inside of the window freezes, mainly because the humidity inside the car is high, which is mainly related to the cold weather and has little to do with whether it snows. So in winter, before turning off the car every night, the owner can judge the air humidity inside the car and the external humidity by himself. If the car is almost full, passengers will produce a lot of water vapor when breathing and talking, which will lead to an increase in humidity inside the car. At this time, if it is dry outside, the owner can roll down all the windows for air before collecting the car to avoid all the water vapor in the car freezing on the windows the next morning.

Next, let's talk about car care after snow. When using a car after snow, the owner should at least clean up the key parts of the car, mainly including all the windows, lights and rearview mirrors. Many car owners are anxious to go out in the morning. They just cleaned the front windshield and glass, and then hurried on the road. You know, this is quite dangerous, because not cleaning the other side's window and rearview mirror will greatly affect the driving sight. In addition, if there is enough time, I suggest you clean up all the snow on the car body.

In addition to cleaning key parts, when removing snow, it is recommended that you clean the snow above the door and on both sides of the roof first, which has nothing to do with driving safety, mainly to prevent the snow under the door from falling into the car when opening the door.

Even if we don't use the car immediately after the snowfall, our car owners should clear the snow on their bodies as soon as possible after the snowfall. First of all, snow, like rain, is an acidic object, and vehicles covered in an acidic environment for a long time will also corrode the car paint. In addition, if it is not cleaned in time, the snow will melt and then cool down, which will cause the snow water to freeze on the car.

If the windshield freezes, the owner had better scrape off the frozen ice on the glass first, be careful not to scrape the window too hard, and never use the wiper before the ice melts. Once the wiper is in the freezing stage, it is easy to damage not only the wiper strip, but also the wiper motor.

If you can't completely remove the ice by hand, you need to turn on the warm air and slowly blow away the ice on the window. In winter, the water temperature of vehicles rises slowly, and the warm air cannot be heated for a long time, causing a lot of unnecessary losses. Therefore, it is recommended that you clear the snow in time to avoid wasting time when using the car.

On snowy days, there will be a lot of snow melting agents on the road surface, most of which are alkaline substances. After driving in snowy weather, the owner needs to clean the vehicle carefully. Alkaline substances such as snow melting agent remain on the vehicle body for a long time, which will cause great corrosion to the vehicle and affect the service life of key components. Wash the car after snow, don't choose computer machine washing, you must choose manual car washing, and let the car washer wash the wheel arch and chassis more.

Snowfall brings beautiful scenery, but it also hides huge security risks. Winter has come, and the snowfall in the north continues. I hope that the majority of car owners will pay attention to driving safety and car care in snowy days and spend this winter safely and healthily.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.