Conditions At The Coast Are Bad For Your Wipers.
Everyone likes a holiday to the coast but what you might not be aware of is how damaging this type of atmosphere can be to your vehicle and wiper blades. You see despite the plethora of beautiful things to see and do at the coast there are insidious materials which attack the metal and rubber on your vehicle. Another poor thing about the sea is that sand gets everywhere no matter how conscious you are and just a single grain of sand can entirely ruin your carefully made cucumber sand wedges. Even seagull poop is quite alkaline and will damage the paint job on your beautiful vehicle and birds themselves have been known to attack wiper blades for the mineral in the rubber, so it may be nice to take the time to find out about some of the mechanical dangers associated with the coast before you take your next trip. Sand is a real killer to motors and boy is there a lot of it at the beach, when sand combines with water is forms a strongly acidic solution which can attack your wiper blades. You see although quartz itself is a quite weak acid it is the absence of base substances to neutralise the carbonic acid present naturally in rain water, in this way the sand grows ever more acidic and only very tough plants such as dunes can survive. Another issue for your wiper blades is the abrasive property of sand caught underneath the wiper blades. You see sand is made from quartz which is very small, very sharp and very hard, this stuff when trapped under a wiper blades goes like an abrasive and will degrade the leading edge of the wiper blade, but this can also scratch the glass itself so watch out.
Another way sand can cause damage to your vehicle if you ignore the whole windscreen wipers issue is that bits can become trapped in the oil and be absorbed into the delicate internal structure of the engine block. But there’s not just sand to worry about at the coast you also have a huge volume of ultraviolet light reflected off the pale white sand and this will not just cause trooubles with your eyes it may also hurt your windscreen wipers. Ultraviolet light breaks down the very chemical structure of organic substances like rubber windscreen wipers and even flesh, it causes molecules to break away from one another and form dangerous free radicals, these in turn leads to a softening of the structure at a fundamental level.
Any wipers made from rubber is at risk form this damage and repeated trips to very sunny areas with large amounts of sunlight will decay the rubber in your wipers. The next trouble is also invisible but no less severe, ozone is an invisible gas which forms naturally in the atmosphere but due to pollution its volume has increased. This gas is shot in off the coast in large amounts and can also cause problems with rubber wipers and parts. In this observers advice, if you cant beat them, join them and actually buy wipers made from sand or silicone, these circumvent all of the things explored above.
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