Make sure your vehicle is ready for a road trip. Start with the tires, including the spare, if your car has one: Check the pressure and inspect the tread, looking for visible signs of damage and wear. Top off the windshield wiper fluid and replace your wiper blades if they’re at least 6 months old. For other checks, consider going to a shop you trust, especially if your car hasn’t been serviced in more than a year, says John Ibbotson, CR’s chief mechanic. Have technicians inspect accessory belts and hoses—they can have life spans as short as five years or 50,000 miles—and ask them to check oil, coolant, and power steering and brake fluid for proper levels and potential contamination.
Road-Trip To-Do’s
The seat can be said to be one of the most frequentlyused parts of the car interior, and for car lovers, the maintenance of every detail of the car can not be ignored.
So let's learn to maintain leather seats.
1. In daily use, leather seats need to avoid sharp objects to scratch the leather, also need to pay attention to dust and sun protection, the sun will not only make the human skin aging, but also make leather seats aging and getting dry and old.
2. In addition to sunlight, leather seats need to be kept away from heat sources as far as possible for daily use. If they are too close to heat sources, high temperature will also cause leather dry and cracked.
3. In addition to regular cleaning and maintenance, use vacuum cleaner to suck the dust on the seat in daily use, keep the seat clean and beautiful, also conducive to improving the service life of the leather seat.
4. Do not use a hair dryer to quickly dry the leather immediately after your daily cleaning. Use a soft towel or cotton paper to dry the leather. Furthermore, let it air dry in a cool, ventilated place.
Cleaning and maintenance
Maintain the leather seats need to go through cleaning, fat liquoring and repair, color, do hand feel four steps.
1. First, use a leather cleaner to remove dust and stubborn stains from the surface of the leather.
2. Secondly, by liquoring fat to supplement the nutrition of the leather, and then repair the scratches parts to make the leather flat and smooth.
3. Then, repair the wear and tear of the leather surface according to the production process to make the leather surface restore bright color.
4. Finally, use special silk or leather hand feeling agent to make the leather feel more soft and smooth.
The way that the car does not fog in rainy days：
1. Turn on the air conditioner to defog mode.
2. Turn on the electric heating function.
Air conditioner use method:
1. Press the one-touch start button to start the car.
2. Press the ac button of the air conditioner to start the air conditioner.
3. Press the lo or gr mark to adjust the temperature.
4. Adjust the figure till the wind gear shows.
The working principle of air conditioner is that the compressor inhales the low temperature and low pressure refrigerant gas at the outlet of the evaporator, compresses the high temperature and high pressure gas and discharge out the compressor, and the high temperature and high pressure superheated refrigerant gas enters the condenser. Due to the reduction of pressure and temperature, the refrigerant gas condenses into liquid and drains a lot of heat.
The role of air conditioner: 1. Car inner temperature regulation. 2. Humidity regulation. 3. Air flow regulation. 4. Purify the air.
When summer and fall alternates, many poor-resistance persons easily suffer from cold. Unfortunately, I am one of those people. A few days ago, I went to the hospital. There were crowed of persons in fever department. There is a doctor roaring “Why don’t come to see the doctor earlier till you get fever.”
I believe that catching a cold is only a slight illness in most people’s eye. Even someone doesn’t put it as a disease. However, according to some statistics, the death caused by cold is rising three percent in the first half year in 2015 compared with the year before 2015. This originates from people’s mistake thinking. We pay attention to the cancer as it’s hard to cure. While we ignore cold as it’s easy to cure.
I find that this theory suits to the car washing. In the eyes of car owner, car washing is a usual thing. Its steps are easy to learn. So we always choose to do it by ourselves or wash by the roadside store. Most drivers all think who can’t wash a car. Actually it’s no. Cold is an illness. Washing car is a care way. You can’t ignore them as they are small things.
The paint is very important to the car’s maintenance of length. If you can maintain the original paint very well, its usage can arrive about 10 years. The worst human damage to car paint is irregular washing car. As the saying goes, dilettante watch the scene of bustle, expert looks at the way. Though washing car is simply manual labor, the knowledge inside is big and wide.
It’s a commonplace. Many people think nothing of that. They think detergent or water detergent can clean the car. Is it affectedly unconventional to use car shampoo which offered by car washing store.
Before I also think like that. Till one day I forget to take shampoo, I use soap take place of shampoo. Then my hair is dry and not easy to comb. There are a lot of dandruff. Then I realize that some special things can’t be replaced by others.
Car use shampoo must be chose correctly. It’s a taboo that using strong alkaline detergent or soap powder. As their detergent ability is strong, their damage is big. After washing too much with them, car surface’s light can quickly be erosion. It can also speed the aging of body rubber parts, tire and car window etc.
The correct choosing of car shampoo should be specified car shampoo, which is better contains water wax. The professional shampoo’s PH is neutral. It won’t erosion car paint. If it contains water wax, it will offer an effect of moist maintenance. Even though you often wash your car, you won’t hurt the car paint. The more you wash, the brighter your car will be. As a result, you’d better not wash your car by yourself.
Pre-washing program
The car is dirt. There is a lot of dust and sediment on the surface of car. If you start with water gun rushing, rubbing with sponge, then washing car become polishing surface with abrasive paper. Before professional washing car, there should add a pre-washing procedure. Even though spraying the pre-washing shampoo with professional equipment, you need wait for 1 to 2 minutes, after soaking; most of sand can leave the car paint. Then you can flush with water gun. Then you can avoid the danger of the sand scratching the car paint when you use car shampoo.
The water current of washing car
The car washing is like people taking shower, you can’t wash clean only flush with water. The professional car store first let the water flows slowly from up to down. Then the dust on the surface of car will be taken away by the current. Then foam every part evenly and carefully. Finally flush with high-pressure water gun.
Car tools and articles for use
When you wash your car, the car washing tools should be divided one by one. The bear’s-paw are used for rubbing the car surface, long hair for scrubbing rims, sponge for tire, no confusion. And following the principle from up towards down. When you rub the car, you also need to follow that principle. Wipe the water spots of the car surface with soft towel. Process the car vacuuming with professional dry and wet amphibious cleaner.
Some car care stores think that their stores should transit. However, after our study, I think there seem some problems worth discussing. What’s problem? And car care store transit to one-stop is really hard.
A lot of bosses said that we need to transit to one stop including car care and quick fix to protect the car. If you really offer the context of transition and requirement to them, they will feel a little stressed.
1. Technical requirement in car care stores transition
The car care stores don’t need too much types of equipment. Of course, the better car care stores’ equipment is not cheaper than one-stop stores’ equipment. After all, these equipment indeed need some input. The technique of car care stores emphasis on polishing technology and the resolution of the car paint surface. While the technique of quick fix to protect the car is much more complex than the technique of car care stores. Long, serious operation process makes bosses feel headache.
2. Gross margin in the transition of car beauty store
The gross margin of quick fix to protect the store to the gross profit of car care is just like the paradise to the hell. Once these bosses know the gross margin of transition, they will feel that why should I do? It’s useless to bear the risk without making a lot of money. So here we say, a lot of car care stores failure of transition is that these bosses are undecided.
3. Car accessories in car care stores’ transition
Basically, any car care product can be painted on the surface of any car by operation. While car’s accessories of each car are not the same, even same model car accessories are different. Then there occurs the following question.
If you don’t work on car repair, you couldn’t possibly know accessories differences including original parts, 4S shop parts, high imitation parts etc. A lot of stores feel confused and disoriented when they prepare goods. One model car has several kinds of filter elements. How many should they prepare? They are very confused.
4. Workshop reconstruction in car care stores’ transition
Once the car care store owner determines to transit, he will plan to reform their workplace. Even though, the boss always wants to reserve car care work place and won’t give up high profit margin’s car care service. He would rather set quick fix to protect your car aside.
The boss always put the space in the most inconspicuous place. Here come the problems. If you don’t transfer, original customers have no idea that you have transfer. What’s more, the boss has not determined yet.
5. Talents recruitment and use in car care stores transition
When a lot of car care bosses recruit technique talents, they will make a lot of missteps, as these bosses often don’t understand technique. At the start, they will excessively rely on the first staff that enters into the machine maintenance. If this employee has both ability and political integrity, he deserves to be trust. If he is an employee who is sciolistic, this company will make a lot of missteps. Meanwhile, if you employ this employee, he can’t operate standard, his maintenance level is not high. That can result in bad word of mouth and blow to the confidence.
6. Quality in car care stores transition
Car maintenance seems a simple project, but there still needs strong management procedure and system as support at the back side. Such as: inspection process, examination system, reward and punishment system. Meanwhile this is the distinct difference between car care stores and professional repair shop. If you want to be professional, these procedures are necessary.
From car care stores transition to one-stop car service store, simply speaking, the above are need to pass. If these need to pass truly, if the bosses can’t determine and bear pain to give up something, it can’t be finished. So,
For some stores, you’d better not change without determination.
If you have analysized your business circle and measured the demand, you need to change to avoid changing.
If car care sales slow down badly, then you need to make up your mind to transform for survival.