With the onset of the winter season and the arrival of cold weather, the issue of keeping warm in the engine compartment becomes more urgent. This is especially true of imported cars, in which the engine cools down in winter in a matter of minutes.
Necessary
- Engine insulation kit,
- foil-clad polypropylene - 2 sq. m,
- glue or double-sided tape.
Instructions
Step 1
It's no secret that warming up the engine in frosty weather takes a lot of time from the driver. And the more often you have to warm up the car, the more precious time is spent waiting for the operating temperature of the coolant in the engine to rise. Not to mention fuel consumption, which damages the family budget, and not only.
Step 2
In order to reduce financial losses and extend the life of the engine, such a preventive measure as the engine insulation for the period of winter operation of the car suggests itself.
Step 3
To carry out work on the thermal insulation of the engine compartment of a car, the modern market offers a variety of industrial insulation materials. Which can be purchased at any trade organization. Each kit must have instructions for carrying out thermal insulation work in the engine compartment. It is enough to study it carefully, after which any car owner will cope with engine insulation.
Step 4
In those cases when the car enthusiast failed, for one reason or another, to purchase an engine insulation kit from the retail network, it can be made by yourself.
Step 5
At the first stage, a heat-insulating material is purchased, from which the engine insulation will be made. According to the "home experts", the best material that most adequately copes with the task assigned to it, today, is foil-clad polypropylene used for thermal insulation in the construction of baths and saunas.
Step 6
The rest is pretty simple. You can cover the engine compartment completely with foam, with foil to the engine, and then cut off the excess insulation so that they do not stick out in all directions from under the closed hood.
Step 7
But the more correct option would be when the insulation, according to pre-made paper patterns, is cut out and attached directly to the back of the hood, with the foil side to the motor. You can attach the patterns with glue or double-sided tape, that is, with an adhesive layer applied to both surfaces.
