How to make the car safely through the winter by some maintenance and maintenance, this is a lot of car owners to consider the problem. Zhongshan City Automobile Repair and Driver Training Association director Fan Liangyin that winter temperatures where the vehicle does not need to replace the low-temperature oil and antifreeze, but the owner in the use of car electric equipment, try not to let the battery overloaded, it is best to give the car battery charging.
Don't overload the battery
Guangdong's temperature is usually higher, in the winter with the car, if not driving to the north, usually is not need to specifically replace the low-temperature oil and antifreeze, but the battery needs to be specially cared for. "Every year before winter comes, it is best to remove the car battery, specializing in charging for half a day." Fan Liangyin introduced, car battery is most afraid of low temperature, low temperature environment battery electric capacity than at room temperature electric capacity is much lower.
So before the cold season, should be supplemented with battery electrolyte, while cleaning the battery terminals, and coated with a special grease to protect, to ensure that the start of a reliable, prolong the life of the battery.
There are more and more electric devices on the car, so when the owner uses these electric devices, try not to overload the battery. Take electric windows and sunroofs as an example, car owners should complete its lifting and closing before the engine is turned off, because if the engine is off, it will stop generating electricity, and then lifting the windows will increase the load on the battery, which is easy to cause damage to the battery.
The lights are the same, if you want to turn off the engine, there is no special need, you should first turn off the headlights, and then turn off the engine, when you start the car at night, you should also start and then turn on the headlights, to minimize the damage to the battery.
Keeping the thermostat working properly
Additionally, car owners should also pay attention to the thermostat. Fan Liangyin said, the role of the thermostat is to automatically control the normal engine water temperature, in the low temperature startup, can make the engine quickly warm up to reduce cylinder wear. Some car summer water temperature is high, repair personnel to remove the thermostat, although the summer problem can be solved, but to the winter if the thermostat is removed, the engine start-up time to extend the warming 4 to 5 times, the cylinder wear increased 5 to 6 times. Therefore, the kind of arbitrary removal of the thermostat practice is incorrect.
In addition, in summer, many drivers tend to use pure water or tap water with detergent, as a glass cleaning fluid.
But it is dangerous to use tap water in winter. If the owner goes to the north, pure water, tap water and other substitutes are prone to freezing in cold weather, and damage to the container is also easy to cause. If the car owner is going to drive to the north in the winter, be sure to put the original pure water and other substitutes to drain, replace the glass cleaning fluid is not afraid of freezing.