Now is the peak season for an expensive bilproblem – Oppland Arbeiderblad

Autumn is about to go over to winter. But still hang there some magazines again, many places. They can cause problems.

Believe it or not, but the leaves can actually lead to expensive, electrical malfunction on your vehicle.

the Reason is simple: They clog again dreneringshullene on the car. It can lead to water going astray, and end up in the engine compartment or other places where it can do damage.

Typical høstproblem

– We have a few injuries with it in the autumn. This usually happens over time, but are typically worse in the autumn, when the leaves fall down from the trees, tells communications manager at Frende Forsikring, Heidi Tofterå Slettemoen.

There are drainage holes in several places in the car, that will make sure to guide the water out and away from the areas it can do damage. How many they are, and where they are placed, varies from car to car.

Rust

– But all have drainage in less than frontruta, so that the water from the snow, ice and traffic can be directed away without doing harm. One thing is what is all about electronics, another problem is this with the rust. Water that is left over time, often mixed with salt, can quickly create serious rustskader, tells Brooms bilekspert, Benny Christensen.

Benny has worked at the yard for several years, and have many example of customers who have come in with clogged drainage.

Easy to avoid

– If the car is parked out a lot, and then like in the vicinity of the trees in the autumn, so increases the risk, naturally, considerably for it to clog up. But be sure to wash the car periodically, open the hood and plucking away the leaves and dirt from there, so you can largely prevent the problem.

– The other dreneringpunktene can be a bit more awkward to get to. Some are sitting at the takluka, some in conjunction with air conditioning and air intakes. It is at all in many places on a car where it could be damp and collect water over time.

Wet floor

– It comes to follow. If you suddenly discover that it is wet, for example, on the floor inside the car, it can quickly be drain from a completely different place on the car that is the cause. Then it is just to get the car delivered at the workshop with a time, then they will usually figure it out pretty quickly, ” says Benny.

If the water does damage on the electronic components, it can also be a forsikringssak.

– These issues are covered most often that damage to machinery on the extended coverage, but can also be covered on kasko, depending on how the damage occurs.

– Parent then there is such damage that happens over time is not regarded as a kaskoskade. It means that if the car is parked for a long time, høstbladene fall down and clog the dreneringshullene over time + it is raining and raining and the water finally filled up at the “wrong place” in the engine compartment so that an electrical box short circuit, so covered it not as a kaskoskade, says Tofterå Slettemoen in Frende Forsikring.