Car Problems tells as correctly to prepare the car for long parking. The snow frosty winter, long business trip, problems in a family can always create a problem with your car, demanding its long parking. What measures need to beundertaken, that for long months of parking in the car there were no failures and damages?Performance of all series of measures on car preservation creates superfluous problems and financial expenditure.
In some managements for motorists the extensive list of actions which ostensibly is required to be executed before, car statement on a long-term storage is resulted. The car successfully and without serious consequences transfers storage under condition of performance of the following of a small series of measures on volume.
First of all it is necessary to wash up and dry carefully the car outside and from below, and also to make. Interior cleaning. To smooth out the found out places of corrosion, to process their anticorrosive means and to paint. All bolts and nuts from below the car for the corrosion prevention to cover with silicone lubricant.
The body outside is desirable for processing wax preserving structure or car preservative. The chromeplated parts to wipe a tampon soaked liquid mineral oil; instead it is possible to cover them with a solution 100g building bitumen in 0,5 l of a lead-free fuel.
The car should be hoisted on supports to unload tires, springs and suspender springs; from tires to exhaust air part, having depressed pressure in them.
At the engine to slacken a belt of a drive gear of the fan, to lower water from cooling system (if it is used special cooling fluid with low freezing temperature to merge it doesn't follow).
Densely to stop up with tampons from a fabric, soak oil taking away tube of the muffler and an air branch pipe of the carburetor (preliminary having removed an air purifier). This measure will allow to avoid car problems with corrosion of internal details of the engine.
To fill in oil in cylinders (as sometimes recommend) not necessarily as the work face of cylinders polished with piston rings, well enough resists to corrosion and practically never rusts.
Don't tighten a parking brake what to avoid car problems: for a winter brake blocks can tightly rust to drums and it is necessary to carry out extremely a laborious work on their removal and clearing in the spring.
The accumulator battery if it is quite serviceable and has served no more than 2 years, it is possible to leave on the place, having disconnected it from an onboard network and having removed tips of wires from plugs. If the battery in an unsatisfactory condition or simply old that in order to avoid freezing of its electrolyte has to be removed from the car and to store in a premise, it is better cool.
Also Car Problems recommends to unhook the bottom ends of absorbers from details of a suspender and to compress absorbers to the full, having drowned a rod in the case. Thanks to it the rod will be protected from corrosion.
If the car costs in garage, doors and a boot lid are better for leaving slightly slightly opened to give freedom to rubber sealants and to warn them rumple. It is possible to leave also in a luggage compartment of a pack of old newspapers. Thanks to hygroscopicity, the paper will absorb a superfluous moisture and will eliminate car problems with a condensate at temperature drops.
At car storage on the open area it is possible to cover it. A boot, however the boot shouldn't adjoin to a body surface not to spoil coloring. Is better to raise by means of crosspieces a boot over a body that similarity of tent has turned out.
The air layer will save up coloring and will relieve from superfluous car problems.
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