by Chew Perng Ling | Nov 21, 2016 | General
In the rainy weather, often because of the weather, the car will often become damp, and sometimes there will be some unpleasant odor of mildew. Here are a few ways to help your car to remove unpleasant mold gas, so that your car in the rainy season, you can also have a fresh interior environment.
Sunshine method
There is a most economical way to remove the air-conditioned musty, including the car. You can find a sunny day to open the car to the sun, so that the air conditioning system in the warm wind block, and then open the air volume to the maximum, in the door window fully open state of more than 10 minutes. Also, be sure to check that the air filter’s filter is clean or needs to be replaced. There are a variety of cleaning agents used to clean the air duct, you can buy a bottle of their own rinse.
The pore size of its internal pores is in the range of 0.27-0.98 nm. Benzene, toluene, xylene, the molecular diameter of 0.4-0.62 nm, and are polar molecules, with preferential adsorption of formaldehyde, benzene, TVOC and other harmful gases, to achieve the purification Indoor air effect.
Perfume method
Perfume this approach is more suitable for the taste is not very serious time. You can sprinkle a little perfume in the car or place a bottle of perfume, not only can reduce the odor, but also very romantic feeling. But need to be reminded that most of the owners like lemon flavor perfume, and most of these perfume acidic, distributed in the air conditioning evaporator, it is easy to mold, resulting in odor. If you like perfume, then the best choice of neutral, lighter taste of a class more appropriate.
Air cleaners
This is the most direct and easy way. Directly open the machine, it will never worry. However, this method is more money, because the market price of air cleaners in the hundreds to thousands of between. But think of themselves and passengers in the rainy season, the car can maintain a fresh air environment, so also the value.
by Chew Perng Ling | Nov 21, 2016 | General
Plant method
First of all chemical removal of formaldehyde method of plant safety no secondary pollution, than the chemical removal method, because it is plant extracts, so high security. In developed countries in Asia, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, has been the first to use the technology for urban, residential, automotive air purification. With the increasingly frequent communication between Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, this technology also will enter the Chinese mainland.
1. The best air-conditioning cleaning times
Many owners tend to use the vehicle is not a problem will not be a big action. Among them, for example, air conditioning, the owners do not wash the whole year is not uncommon. But the summer air-conditioning will be a long time to use, do a thorough cleaning is still very necessary. In addition to removing odor, the air inlets inhaled a lot of dust, dirt and the breeding of bacteria, are likely to affect people’s health. Need to pay attention to the focus of cleaning air conditioning parts include: automotive condenser, this part will affect the air conditioning cooling effect, the condenser is usually installed in the front and the water tank together, cleaning should pay attention to prevent heat dissipation leaves leaves blocked by the cooling effect; The role of the air inside the filter, with a period of time after the easy to black, the general staff of the car beauty shop will replace the proposed owner, but in fact can continue to use after cleaning the air filter. During the cleaning process, suction the air filter on the debris and surface dust, and then rinse.
2. Interior thoroughly disinfection
As the hot summer, many owners do not often open the windows, and air conditioning to the wind, often only choose the inner loop. For a long time, the air inside the compartment will become turbid, especially before the thunderstorm hit hot and humid weather, bacteria are also easy to breed. Owners at this time you can choose to buy some interior cleaning agent or to the car beauty shop on the car interior to conduct a thorough clean-up.
3. Volatile car antifreeze essential
Summer coolant evaporation fast, we must always check whether the lack of coolant, if missing, to replenish the same brand of antifreeze, not add other brands of antifreeze or water. Because antifreeze is the main working medium in the engine cooling system, its main role is to make the engine cooling system through forced circulation, so that the engine to maintain the appropriate operating temperature.
It is called “antifreeze” because the liquid contains some freezing point of the lower chemical composition, which can protect the engine at low temperatures and water tanks do not freeze. In addition to antifreeze, the use of chemical composition of ethylene glycol and other antifreeze prepared not only low temperature, and high temperature characteristics are particularly good. This antifreeze in close to 200 degrees Celsius can be “boiled.” In the summer filled with such antifreeze in the tank, you are not easy to be car water tank “boil” troubled by the. In addition, antifreeze also rust, the role of cleaning.
4. Protect the car paint parked in the shade
Although it seems no life, but really afraid of the sun, long-term exposure will be the old, wrinkled. Ordinary beauty waxing, although some role, but because any car wax contains silicon components, durable ultraviolet radiation will rust paint, leaving little spots. And the car wax itself can not achieve enhanced hardness, anti-ultraviolet effect, will be due to high temperature and quickly lost, therefore, parking should be parked in the shade.
by Chew Perng Ling | Nov 12, 2016 | General
Very often that Malaysian would travel back to the hometown or Malays would usually say ‘balik kampong’ especially during festival time. Most of us will choose to drive with our own car, which will be more convenient and economy. Some of us might complain that travel on the road could be a nightmare when come to the situation of traffic jam on the road, which could make you stuck in the middle of highway for 5 – 10 hours.
So what are the things that you could do with your car interiors, a space that you spend so much of time, throughout the driving journey? Here are some ideas that could help you at least to lessen your frustration and killing your boredom. Here are some suggestions of using few gadgets and some DIY tricks to improve the quality of your drive time.
- USB Power Multiplied
What to do with a USB Power Multiplied in our car? Nowadays tablet and smartphones replaced the traditional paper maps and directories, which is really convenient and beneficial. With just a simple search with WAZE app you are able to estimate the time to reach your destination However, we are still facing a problem that tablets and smartphones gulp down battery power on a long trip when the phone GPS. Most cars have just one USB power point for recharging your gizmos, and that’s not going to be enough for 10 hours and above road trip, or if you have a carload of people playing Poke Mon, COC, Candy Crash etc.
You can, however, add two additional (and more powerful) USB points to a cigarette lighter socket. There are a lot of shops out there sells plug-in unit with two 2.1-amp USB outlets, enough to charge even Apple’s power-hungry iPad. Cigarette lighter sockets can handle more than 10 amps, so this is a convenient way to make sure your camera, video game, MP3 player, and tablets stay charged during hours on the road, so you could to enjoy your long car travel journey.
- Floating Phone Holder
Since most of the people use WAZE or Google map apps for navigation, you will need to keep the phone within reach to limit the time your eyes are off the road. The best way we’ve found is to use a dedicated phone mount on a gooseneck, similar to the placement of a console shifter. Some of these mounts use flexible hydraulic tubing, but the ones we like use true gooseneck tubing. Some of them even have plastic conduit that can cover wires.
- Convenient Cup Holders
Many people would stop by petrol station or rest area to get a cup of hot coffee after few hours of driving to keep them awake while continue with the remaining journey. However, most of the default car cup holders are found annoying: Center-console-located cup holders block your arm during shifting, and door-pocket cup holders are too low to reach.
Hence to get a gimballed drink holders that you can mount high on the door panels of your car, which you would find is the most convenient place while you’re driving.
- Moveable Shade
Malaysian always complaint about exposing under the hot sun specially when driving, the UV could make us tiring and the sun light can temporarily blind you and you just can’t block it no matter you are driving a SUV, MPV or a truck. Get a windshield’s surface static to hold tinted plastic sheets to areas where the sun is shining in, where you could get this easily from car accessories shop. You can place these small, moveable sheets on the windshield or side windows to knock down the intensity of sunlight and save your eyes some strain.
- Cockpit Cargo Carriers
Most of the time you may have prepared gadgets, snacks, notepads, and other miscellany you want at the ready during a road trip. To make everything easier and handy, get a cockpit cargo carriers could always help you to keep extra stuff accessible which could be placed just under your knees; trunk cargo bins are too big for this space, but the kind of covered cargo carriers meant for the tiny cockpits of small airplanes fit perfectly here. Get the one which is designed to fit between the narrow seats, where you could fit to the front of your car’s seat to keep it in place.
