Summer car air conditioning health care: clever use of additives to help you

by langrentoh1 on 2012-03-09 09:20:00

Summer Car Air Conditioning Health Care: Clever Use of Additives Can Help You

The car air conditioning system is often neglected by most car owners for maintenance. Generally speaking, after about five years of operation, the car air conditioning system will gradually age, resulting in decreased cooling efficiency and weaker airflow. Manufacturers and 4S stores frequently organize inspections and maintenance for car air conditioning systems for car owners. However, if you want to perform some maintenance work yourself, automotive air conditioning repair (maintenance) additives available on the market can be your good helper.

Working Principle: These automotive air conditioning additive products enhance the compressor's seal, reduce wear, lower noise, and improve the compressor's operational efficiency. They significantly reduce friction and increase sealing within the air conditioning system, enhancing the cooling effect so that the air conditioning and various functional components inside the car can operate at higher efficiencies. This helps extend the lifespan of the car's air conditioning system.

In the automotive products market, there are also kits of air conditioning system additives priced around 400 yuan, allowing car owners to perform maintenance, cleaning, and enhanced cooling processes on their car air conditioners themselves.

Main Benefits:

1. After adding the repair agent, the air conditioning outlet temperature can decrease by 2~5℃, improving the cooling effect;

2. Reduces friction resistance in the air conditioning compressor, reducing the compressor load by 15~23%, reduces wear, extending the life of the air conditioner twice as long;

3. Eliminates abnormal noises from worn compressors;

4. Saves fuel by 10%, reducing the cost of car usage.

Master's Tip: Some car owners add Freon refrigerant inside their cars. When it's very hot in summer, excessive Freon refrigerant can cause high pressure to exceed limits, making the engine produce thunder-like vibrations, sometimes even leading to overheating. Maintenance experts say this is mainly due to the small engine power and partial equipment aging. When the air conditioning is turned on, the engine cannot handle the heavy load and fails to drive the air conditioning compressor; if the air conditioning continues to be forcibly used, the car's wear and tear will worsen, and in severe cases, it might lead to a car fire. Therefore, he suggests using relevant automotive air conditioning additives appropriately in such situations to remove scale.

Related Link: Recently, experts from Nanjing University have developed a car air conditioning system with cold storage functionality. It can store excess cold air in the cabin and use it when the cold air is insufficient, effectively overcoming the uneven cooling caused by different driving speeds in current vehicle air conditioners. It is reported that this cold-storage car air conditioning system saves about 25% electricity compared to conventional vehicle air conditioners.

According to the introduction, traditional vehicle air conditioners waste a lot of cold air when the car is traveling at high speed, and the release of cold air is not uniform. The power is high when the car speed is fast and low when the car speed is slow, like an oil-consuming "tiger." The special cold-storage material developed by Nanjing University allows cold air to be released when the car stops or moves slowly, simply by activating the cold-storage device.