You get a new car. Great! You will not be having any problem for years if you keep it well-maintained. Accidental crashes are an exception where you will surely face certain problems. On the other hand, if you find cars for sale preowned and perhaps not much maintained. You may experience problems with it, sooner or later. Now, you cannot return it or even claim a partial refund. All you can do is to repair or replace the defected parts. So, always purchase from a reliable dealer and get a specialized mechanic on board to ensure the best car condition and performance.
Most commonly encountered problem could be bad car smells – applies to both new and old cars depending on maintenance and use. Well, it’s the beginning. Your vehicle would bring you more terrible consequences if any popped up issue has not been fixed timely and appropriately
Why Car Stinks?
Your vehicle can smell bad for so many reasons. You can easily diagnose the cause because each distinctive smell indicates a different problem. For instance, burning brake or clutch causes a pungent smell, burning oil smell typically because of some oil leakage, extremely sweet and maple syrup-like smell usually results from leaking heater core.
If you notice rust stains, discoloration, damp carpet, and mildew coupled with a musty smell in your car, you may have a leaking windshield.
You may not feel the pressure of solving this problem immediately since it’s not troubling you much. However, you cannot ignore these issues for long especially if you own one of the cheap used cars. Reason? A leaking windshield may stop you in mid of the journey because of serious computer or sensor failure due to electrical issues stemming from it. Perhaps rust and damp carpet may not scare you of the gravity of this problem in the first place. But, eventually, the high humidity in the car will lead to jammed pin connectors and windows.
Adding up to financial damages, if you keep on ignoring the leaking windshield it will put you and your family’s life at risk.
Here are a few reasons your windshield leaks and need immediate maintenance or replacement.
Poor installation: In events of leakage, windshield should be replaced without any delay.
Poor sealing: It usually happens due to inaccurate urethane quantity used during installation.
Technician not wearing gloves: During installation, if technician does not wear gloves, the oil on his hands can prevent urethane adhesive to bond with windshield – resisting moisture influx.
Inapt use of setting tools: Again, your technician is not well-trained and fails to use vacuum cups or any other setting tool appropriately – windshield will not be fixed properly; hence more prone to leaking.
Rainy conditions: Now, with high humidity in the air or snowy, rainy condition even a skilled technician cannot complete the installation job successfully. For the reason, that urethane will not stick to the damp surface of your window.
Rubber gaskets: This issue usually resides with the older vehicles and used cars for sale with rubber gaskets which deteriorate over time. So, make sure your purchased car has watertight seals.
As soon as you come across windshield leakage, take appropriate measures to seal it up. Moreover, if you don’t want to face any such issue then buy your second-hand car from Statewide Auto Group having one of the world’s leading car yards Capalaba & Brisbane, QLD to assist you.