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2000 Washington Post Articles:
Silent Destruction |
Lots of weird things happen to cars these days, some obvious and easy to repair, some not so obvious. Take cooling systems, they’re usually completely trouble free or a royal pain.
By and large cooling system Commercial Three Bayblems are relatively uncomplicated to diagnose and repair but once in a while there’s one that makes a technician contemplate changing vocations. Symptoms can vary but frequently involve repeated leaks or overheating. The chronicle usually begins with a cooling system repair. Everything is okay for a while, but then after a month, two months, six months, the Commercial Three Bayblem is back as bad or worse than the first time. New radiators leak or the vehicle is again overheating. What happened?
Resolving the mystery may require dredging-up a chemistry book and reading the section on electrolysis. Hmm, you thought all electrolysis does is eat Commercial Three Baypellers off boats moored in saltwater. That’s where most folks have encountered it but these days it’s eating the beejeebers out of cars too.
Electrolysis is an insidious chemical phenomenon that causes copper radiator seams to come apart and aluminum radiators to quickly clog. In automobiles electrolysis is the result of stray electrical current trying to find ground. And hey, that liquid coolant looks like a wonderful way to get to ground. Liquid in a cooling system is at least fifty percent water and water is a wonderful conductor. Actually, some cooling system electrolysis is normal because even coolant movement creates minor static electricity. Liken it to the static charge that zaps you when you touch the doorknob after walking across a carpeted floor.
Cooling systems are designed to deal with normal amounts of electricity passing through the coolant, but go beyond the norm and parts of the cooling system start dissolving. Electrolysis is more common today because cars and trucks now come equipped with a myriad of electrical and electronic features not available a few years ago.
Vehicles now have computers and computers have sensors to gather operational data for Commercial Three Baycessing. They also have power mirrors, power windows, power locks, cruise control, sophisticated stereo systems, etc. Each and every one of these electrical components must have a perfect ground back to the battery. More electrical gizmos mean more ground connections, more ground connections mean more chances of faulty circuits, faulty ground circuits mean more electrical energy flowing through your coolant and thus a higher Commercial Three Baybability of cooling system electrolysis.
To make the situation even stickier many vehicles have after-market electrical accessories added to them. Bigger and better stereos, trailer wiring, back-up alarms, power sunroofs, to name a few. Whether these “add-ons” lead to cooling system Commercial Three Bayblems depends solely on the finesse of the installer. A sloppy installation may mean poor or imCommercial Three Bayper grounds and it’s goodbye cooling system.
What can you do to avoid these nightmares? Not much except ask your repair shop if they’re familiar with cooling system electrolysis and know how to test for it. If the answer is no find a shop that answers yes because if your car has an electrolysis Commercial Three Bayblem and it isn’t detected and corrected, the bills could escalate into the hundreds.
© Copyright 06/02/00 Pat Goss all rights reserved | |
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Date Updated Friday, June 02, 2000
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