subject: Car paint: some things about it [print this page] The process of color fading of car paint and the degradation of its quality is a natural process. Some causes of this degradation include UV light and chemicals. The harmful chemicals that touch the body of car are usually in the form of the things that we are familiar with. They are bird droppings, the air pollutant, car polisher and salt. The following description might give you great information about them and how to deal with those chemicals.
Bird droppings and insects
Actually, it is easy to clean bird droppings while they are still wet. But, you are often despised or simply not had time to quickly clean it. These droppings will be very difficult to clean when they have dried. In this matter, you have to be carefully clean the bird droppings that have been dried since this can scratch the paint of your car. Sometimes, when someone finds difficulties in cleaning the bird droppings that have been dried, he will paint the area with fade paint. Absolutely, this is a bad solution. Thus, do not try this.
The Air Pollutant
As you may know, the air contains many chemicals in gas form. In high ambient air pollution such as in big cities has nitric acid (HNO3) in high number. Well, this nitric acid is corrosive to your car paint either in the form of gases and liquids (brought by the rain).
Car polishers
Although these polishers intended to brighten the car paint, you must be careful in using the pads. Polishing works by eroding paint using abrasive materials. These materials can lead to reduce car paint ages. Therefore, as much as possible you should avoid using car polishers.
Salt
Water that contains salt will be danger your car paint. If the salt containing in water is high enough, this can harm your car body. This is because the salt will accelerate the corrosion process.
However, there are many things that you can do to take care off your car paint. All of the things are very easy to do. Some of them are parking your car in shady places, washing your car regularly, washing your car in the shade, using a special soap to wash the car, avoiding washing with hot water, performing waxing about 2-3 months to provide extra protection and immediately fixing the peeled or chipped car paint. By doing those things, you will find that your car body will always shine.
