Everyone likes a trip to the coast but what you might not be aware of is how detrimental this sort of environment can be to your motorcar and wiper blades. You see despite the plethora of beautiful things to see and do at the beach there are insidious things which attack the metal and rubber on your motorcar. Another bad thing about the coast is that sand gets everywhere no matter how conscientious you are and just a single grain of sand can completely ruin your carefully made cucumber sand wedges. Even seagull poop is highly alkaline and will hurt the paint job on your beautiful motorcar and birds themselves have been known to attack wiper blades for the mineral in the rubber, so it may be good to take the time to find out about some of the motor dangers associated with the sea before you take your next trip. Sand is a real killer to cars and boy is there a lot of it at the beach, when sand mixes with water is forms a strongly acidic solution which can attack your wiper blades. You see although quartz itself is a bona fide weak acid it is the absence of base substances to neutralise the carbonic acid found naturally in rain water, in this way the sand grows ever more acidic and only very rugged plants such as dunes can survive. Another puzzle for your wiper blades is the abrasive action of sand trapped underneath the wiper blades. You see sand is made from quartz which is very little, very sharp and very hard, this stuff when trapped under a wiper blades goes like an abrasive and will break the leading edge of the wiper blade, but this can also scratch the glass itself so watch out.

Another way sand can cause damage to your motorcar if you ignore the whole replacement wiper blades issue is that dust can become trapped in the oil and be absorbed into the soft internal structure of the engine block. But there’s not just sand to worry about at the sea you also have a huge amount of ultraviolet light reflected off the pale white sand and this will not just cause trooubles with your eyes it may also damage your replacement wiper blades. Ultraviolet light breaks down the very chemical structure of organic substances like rubber replacement wiper blades and even flesh, it encourages molecules to break away from one another and produce dangerous free radicals, these in turn leads to a weakening of the structure at a fundamental level.

Any wipers made from rubber is at risk form this injury and repeated trips to very sunny areas with large amounts of sunlight will decay the rubber in your wipers. The next issue is also invisible but no less severe, ozone is an invisible gas which forms naturally in the atmosphere but due to pollution its volume has expanded. This gas is blown in off the coast in large amounts and can also cause problems with rubber wipers and components. In this observers opinion, if you cant beat them, join them and actually buy wipers produced from sand or silicone, these circumvent all of the things explored above.