Motoring At The Seaside Will Degrade Your Wipers.

The coast is a lovely place full of spectacular vistas and strange new tactile sensations, like the feel of sand between your toes or the icey cold water of the ocean on your skin or the noise of the sea lapping gently in rock pools, the salty smell of sea weed and salt in the air and squawking seagulls filling your ears. The only problem with this picturesque setting is that for your car this kind of environment is murder for the rubber and metal parts, the salt found at the coast can severely damage your rubber wiper blades and even breakdown the metal body work of your car. Sea salt will cake on the sides of your motor and wiper blades and when mixed with water it will form a very alkaline solution hurting whatever it happens to come into contact with. Sand is another killer, these tiny particles are hard as glass and will in fact act like sand paper when trapped in between moving bits for example when caught under the wiper blades they can in fact damage your wind screen quite severely not to mention getting into the oil and being transported into the delicate inner apparatus of the engine. The only way to beat this devious menace is to conspire with the enemy and in the case of the old vernacular if you can’t beat them join them, starts utilising a wiper blades assembled from sand itself or its chemical name silicone.

Another issue to consider it the volume of ultra violet light seen at the beach, you see the large volumes of white sand reflect the full spectrum of light back onto your automobile, this ultra violet light is not only bad for your health but also bad for the health of your truck. Ultra violet light causes materials like rubber to decompose, it targets the very chemical foundation of the rubber and like cancerous cells they will begin to multiply and soon you will be left with a greatly degraded replacement wiper blades. Unlike you your replacement wiper blades can’t wear shades so the only real way to sidestep this issue is by getting some replacement wiper blades made from a substance which doesn’t react with ultra violet light like those made from silicone. Once again silicone comes to the rescue and once again another naughty substance, ozone, will try to damage your wipers.

Ozone is blown in from off coast in huge concentrations and this too can break rubber and especially wipers. This invisible criminal will attack all the rubber parts on your car including the wipers although thankfully this substance is harmless to humans it will break your car. Once again silicone wipers could be the answer you seek, silicone has a variety of unique properties which make it hugely superior to standard rubber based wipers. First off it can thwart changes in temperatures both hot and cold extremes making it perfect in the summer and the winter. Another is it’s extremely stable chemical structure meaning that is won’t react in the adjacency of catalysts like ozone, ultra violet light, pollution and water.