Citroen Xantia

Since 1993 of release

Repair and car operation

Care of components of a body and the car bottom

It is necessary to remember that a primary factor defining selling cost of the second-hand car, the condition of its body is. Care procedures кузовными panels are extremely simple, but should be carried out on a regular basis. The scornful relation to the smallest mechanical defects and damages of a paint and varnish covering can lead to fast development of corrosion and necessity of performance expensive кузовного repair. Important also regularly to check a condition of the surfaces hidden from a sight and details, such as arches of wheels, the bottom part of partitions of an impellent compartment, etc.

The main procedure on care of a body is its sink, preferably plentiful quantity of water, submitted under pressure from a hose. Powerful enough stream easily forces down and softens the dried up dirt and that is important, allows to avoid damage of a paint and varnish covering at a friction about it of separate grains of sand and other abrasive particles. Do not forget to wash out a stream also an arch of wheels and bearing elements of the bottom of the car. As it is paradoxical, the best time for performance of a sink of elements of a suspension bracket and the car bottom is damp rainy weather when the most part of the accumulated adjournment is washed off automatically during movement. Try not to miss possibility and, taking an opportunity, always make external survey of the components located under the car.

From time to time it is necessary to make check of a condition of an anticorrosive covering of the bottom of the car. Preliminary it is necessary to subject the bottom, including an impellent compartment, steam cleaning in which course multilayered oil adjournment, sticky шлам and a dense dirt especially well leave. If possibility of application of steam cleaning is absent, it is necessary to process by means of a brush surfaces of components subject to cleaning by one of set of solvents let out now.

Completely having washed off a dirt from a paint and varnish covering, wipe surfaces кузовных panels soft suede, returning initial shine to polishing. Processing of surfaces by a polyrole containing wax provides additional protection of a paint and varnish covering against atmospheric influences and allows to restore locally lost polishing. Remember that tarnishing of a paint and varnish covering is connected with the scornful relation to a regular sink of the car more often. Paint and varnish coverings of type "metallic" require special leaving with application of special not containing abrasives of polyroles. Try to check regularly passableness of drainage and ventilating apertures кузовных panels. Do not forget to wipe from time to time some glass, by means of special cleaning structures deleting from their surface a road film. At all do not use polyroles containing wax for processing of glasses and the chromeplated elements of furnish.

It is not necessary to use at cleaning of vinyl panels детергентами, каустической soda, or cleaners on an oil basis. For this purpose the warm soap solution perfectly approaches. The eaten dirt well leaves by means of a soft brush and soap. Cleaning of vinyl panels should be made with the same frequency, as a sink of a body of the car. On termination of panel cleaning can be processed one of high-quality protective structures for rubbers and the plastics widely presented in the markets the automobile markets. The same means suit processing of tyres, sealing strips кузовных panels, vacuum hoses and other rubber and plastic components.