When temperatures reach 40 degrees C, our car begins to suffer. Even if we have the impression that a vehicle is made to withstand the sun’s rays, several elements are ruined by excessive heat.
The warm season severely damages the car. Moreover, here we are talking about different elements that start to give in when the sun beats straight into the car for several hours and even days. The auto mechanic recommends trying to leave your car in a sheltered place to protect it and, implicitly, protect your investment.
The temperature inside that reaches values even over 80 degrees Celsius can spoil the paint of the car, the elements of rubber, upholstery. Also the interior noise, the dash, the steering wheel, the windows, the electronics, the brakes and the dampers. But, let’s take them one at a time.
We have to explain that we are not talking about something that immediately breaks down. I mean, you left your car in the sun for a whole day, and in the evening you need to get it fixed. No, not at all. However, the problems that worsen and manifest especially when the sun beats continuously and the temperature is high. For example, if you’ve had cracks in leather upholstery so far, the chances for them to turn into tears are maximum when it’s hot.
1) Noise in The Passenger Compartment:
After a certain number of kilometers, any rolled car starts to make sounds. The primary cause is the sun. And that’s because of heat, plastic clamps that through various accessories, such as board, doors, dashboards, etc. aging much faster when it’s hot. The plastic bakes itself when the car is 80 degrees. Not in the beginning, but after 1-2 seasons with the vehicle left in the sun, your interior will be turned into a real concert of scratches you cannot identify. If we add the parts that are lubricated from the factory with grease or oil, we already have a problem. Because they lose their lubrication from the heat, the fat becomes too viscous.
2) The Board:
The board is made of plastic, or rubberized plastic poured directly onto a metal or aluminum frame. From the heat, the catching of this metallic structure begins to detach, and the plastic breaks off. As a result, there are gaps in the holes of the pits from the pits, and it turns into cracks. At first small, then visible and cannot be repaired. That’s because the board is dark in general and draws warmth. You do not have to wonder when you put a thermometer on the board, and you will see it as 90 degrees. It’s just plastic and metal, standard materials, so we have to protect it as much as possible if we do not want to wake up with holes in sight. Read more here.
3) Steering Wheel:
Another wrong impression is about the steering wheel. How it would wear out of hand rubbing. Nothing more wrong. It deteriorates the most, right in the palm-grip zone, but from the sun, not from friction. Hands emanate abundant sweat, which exists, though invisible. Sweating that gets on the wheel in the form of salts and chemicals. It is because we are not used to wiping the wheel after every driving session, it becomes one of the dirtiest and bacteria-filled interior parts. The sun will act on them, and the salts will work over time, leading to small holes that are rising every day. More serious is in the case of leather steering wheels: sweat salt will dehydrate your skin and promote cracks caused by the sun.
4) Windows:
Did not you see that in time, the windscreen begins to mature or change its color? When you put new wipes, but still do not clean them properly, what do you think it is? Well, the windscreen has an invisible protective coating. Just like the lenses of a camera. This layer in time, from too much sun, begins to disappear. Moreover, the glass is no longer as glossy and becomes matte, mainly because it loses its protection and becomes more vulnerable to dust, stones, insects.
Furthermore, each windscreen is made of 2 secured layers. These layers are glued with a transparent foil, sometimes with a protective role.
