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Archive for category Automotive Autobody
Get Your Old Ride Looking New!
Whether you just bought a previously owned car or you have had your car for a while it may show a little wear and tear, especially if you slacked off a little in the care part. That’s okay we understand we all have busy lives. However, for the most part we all want to have nice looking cars that look like new. Even if you don’t see the potential for your car to look like new, there most likely is! Many times you just need to get a few simple repairs to get your old ride looking like new again! Find out what those are.
One great repair to make to your vehicle is getting it to have a smooth appearance. If your vehicle currently has dents or dings in it that is holding up your car from looking like new! This problem has a very simple solution. That simple solution is paintless dent removal or repair. Getting paintless dent removal for your vehicle is easy, quick and affordable. The process involves the use of reflective sources, rods and specials tools by a skilled paintless dent removal specialist. You will save money and keep the original finish on your vehicle since there are no fillers, paints or other materials needed to complete the repairs. Also the dents and dings can be removed in less than a few hours which will save you a lot of time. Getting rid of the dents and dents will improve your ride 100%.
Another repair that can really enhance the appearance of your vehicle is getting interior repairs. If there are any burn holes, tears in the upholstery, cracks in the dash, scrapes to seats or doors, leather scrapes or rips, dirty carpets or if your headliner is falling down you should consider getting interior repair. Those things can really have a negative effect on your vehicle. You simply need to find a professional auto reconditioning shop to take care of your vehicles interior repairs. You vehicles interior will begin to look like new in no time.
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Decrease Automotive Gas & Fuel Costs – Your Auto’s Air Fuel Filter
Your car air’s filter is one of the most taken for granted components of your automobile – be it car, truck, S.U.V. or van. Left alone it will do a good job announced – cleaning the engine intake air of dangerous dirt and grime. However ignored a dirty air cleaner can easily slow down and impair your car’s performance, acceleration, overall engine running health and easily decrease your gas mileage by 10 % or even more. In these days of high gasoline and fuel costs anything you can save to decrease your overall running costs of your vehicle is money in the bank to you and money in your pocket.
It can be said that overall cars need both a tremendous and enormous amount of air to breathe on a regular ongoing basis. About an astonishing whole 9,000 gallons of air are used up for every gallon of gasoline your automotive vehicle uses. By anyone’s reckoning and count that’s a large volume of air. It is most important, if not essential for the smooth running as well as long life of your car that the air is breathes is clean, that is free of dirt, dust and grime. This is the job of your air cleaner.
A breather hose called a snorkel actually carries the air from outside the car into the air cleaner. En-route this intake air is heated by hot air that has been redirected from the engine by the pre-heated air-intake system. The air passes through the air cleaner, a container that houses the air filter- which is the workhorse of your vehicles cleanup detail. Most air filters are basically made up of pleated folds of paper, a heavier almost cardboard type of paper, whose job is catch the dirt and grime, which is in the outside air and atmosphere before it can get down into the finely machines engine parts and components of your precious, reliable auto engine.
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Automotive Paint Technology
Automotive paint technology has made significant advancements over the years, more or less you could basically class the products into 2 categories, Thermoset & Thermoplastics.
Thermosets – These are the products that cure irreversibly. They require a catalyst which causes a chemical reaction creating a cross linked product. This would typically include your clearcoats, primers, sealers, panelbond, bumper repair materials & even plastic bumpers themselves.
Thermoplastics – These are products that remain soluble after drying. They are usually 1 component (no hardener) and do not cross link. They can be broken down by whatever solvent they are being reduced with. This would include your basecoats, 1 component primerspaints, 1 part repair materials (ie.. window urethaneseam sealers).
What is Cross linking
Cross linking is a chemical reaction that causes a group of polymers (synthetic or naturally existing materials) to bond together with a linkage. Read the rest of this entry »
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