Audi A4, S4

since 2000 of release

Repair and car operation

Cleaning and leaving

Regular care in representation office of Audi promotes its safety and is one of conditions of acceptance of claims on a guarantee in case of detection of corrosion damages and defects of a paint and varnish covering of a body.

Wash of the car

The best means of protection of the car from harmful effects of environment is its frequent sink and preservation of a paint and varnish covering.

The more long there are on a paint and varnish covering pollution which have stuck to it, the stronger them destroying influence. High temperature or humidity strengthen effect. So, depending on the circumstances, there can be sufficient a wash of the car once a week. But can quite be the sink with the subsequent preservation of a paint and varnish covering will suffice once a month. After end of the period of a posypaniye of a paving I will merge surely thoroughly wash the bottom.

Automatic installations of a sink

The car varnish is enough прочен for a usual wash of the car in automatic washing installations.

At an automatic sink it is enough to observe usual precautionary measures (previously close windows and the roof panel). Aerials of a factory complete set for radio, phones/systems навигации* are in car salon.

At a car complete set special autoaccessories, for example, a spoiler, a luggage carrier on a roof, a radio antenna it is etc. best of all to consult at the personnel of washing installation.

Manual sink

For a manual wash of the car a lot of water is required.

In the beginning soak and wash away dirt.

Wash the car with a sponge from top to down.

Shampoo use only in exceptional cases.

Rinse the car water.

Dry the car skin for cleaning of glasses.

At a manual sink soak in the beginning dirt with plentiful use of water and then as it is possible better wash away it.

Then wash up the car a soft sponge, a glove or a brush for washing, without pressing thus it is strong on a surface. A sink begin with a roof and further down. Shampoo use only for removal of the stuck pollution.

Regularly and thoroughly wash out a sponge or a glove for washing.

Wheels, thresholds etc. wash in the last turn. For their washing use other sponge.

Do not wash the car on a bright sun - there is a danger of damage of a paint and varnish covering.

When watering car from a hose in the winter do not direct a water stream on locks or joints of doors and other joints - there is a danger of freezing.

Do not use a sponge for removal of insects, rigid sponges for kitchen, etc. - there is a danger of damage of a surface.

Only damp cleaning of headlights - best of all is allowed by soap water. Never clean headlights a dry fabric or a sponge.

Sink cleaning devices of a high pressure

At observance of certain rules it is possible to wash the car with also cleaning devices of a high pressure.

Follow instructions of the manufacturer of the cleaning device of a high pressure.

Observe rather big distance in relation to soft components of the car.

At a wash of the car the cleaning device of a high pressure surely follow instructions of the manufacturer of this device. It especially belongs to pressure and dispersion distance. Observe rather big distance in relation to soft materials, such as rubber hoses or insulating materials. Use of the directed nozzles or the polluted mills is not allowed at all.

Covering preservation

Good preservation substantially protects the car from environment influence, and also even from insignificant mechanical damages.

The paint and varnish covering of the car can be processed liquid wax already a week later after delivery to you the new car.

The protective layer of the preservative representing firm wax, is put anew no later than the effect of a skatyvaniye of drops of water from a pure covering will obviously disappear.

Even at regular using washing preservative in automatic washing installations it is recommended not less often than two times a year in addition to put on a covering a protective layer of firm wax.

Stuck mainly in a warm season on a forward part and a front bumper the remains of insects, as a rule, are removed from a paint and varnish covering with svezhenanesyonny preservative much more simply.

Polishing

Polishing serves for luster restoration.

Polishing is necessary only in case the paint and varnish covering lost an attractive look, but to restore luster, using preservatives, any more it is not possible.

If polish used thus does not contain preserving components, after polishing it is necessary to execute preservation of a paint and varnish covering, see above.

It is impossible to process polishing means or firm wax of a detail with an opaque paint and varnish covering, and also plastic components of the car.

Decorative components and moldings

Decorative components and moldings of silvery color are made of pure aluminum (without chrome). It is dictated by environmental protection reasons.

To removal of spots and a raid from decorative components apply neutral conditioning agents (with zero acidity (pH)), do not use a conditioning agent behind chrome. Care of decorative components and moldings does not need also the polish intended for care of paint and varnish coverings. Besides, the alkaline intensive cleaners used often before entrance on the line for an automatic sink, can be at the bottom of emergence of opaque/dairy color of spots when drying.

Synthetic components

Synthetic components are exposed to a usual sink. If it is not enough of it, synthetic components can be processed also the special means not containing solvents intended for care of such products. Conditioning agents do not suit care of synthetic components behind a varnish.

Damages of a paint and varnish covering

Insignificant damages of a paint and varnish covering are liquidated by painting pencil or aerosol a cylinder -

Insignificant damages of a paint and varnish covering, such as scratches, labels or traces from blows of stones, at once, before emergence of corrosion to varnish. Painting pencils suitable for your car or aerosol ballonchik are available on HUNDRED Audis.

Number of the original code of a paint and varnish covering of your car can be found in the factory plate with car parameters, see. Identification numbers of the car.

Carefully remove appeared on a damage place a rust raid.

In the beginning put on this place an anticorrosive first coat, and then a varnish.

Windowpanes

Snow and ice delete with a plastic scraper.

Other residual educations delete with a cleaner of glasses.

Glasses dry a pure fabric.

Windscreen cleaning by means for removal of insects or wax is not allowed. Otherwise violation of function of brushes of a screen wiper (vibration of brushes) is possible.

The remains of rubber, oil, greasing or silicone can be cleaned a screen wiper or means for silicone removal. It is possible to remove the remains of wax with only a special cleaner.

Glasses are necessary for cleaning regularly also from within.

For drying of glasses use a special fabric or skin for glasses. Intended for processing of the varnished surfaces skin do not use for drying of glasses since the preservative remains negatively affect visibility.

Threads of heating of back glass are on an internal surface of glass. Gluing of stickers on a thread of electroheating of back glass is not allowed not to damage them.

Rubber consolidations

Rubber consolidations of doors, cowl, luggage carrier, the panel of a roof and glasses keep the properties and serve more long if them from time to time to rub with the special means intended for care of rubber products (for example, a silicone aerosol). After such processing they do not freeze even in the winter and easier doors open. Besides, do not allow premature wear of consolidations and tightness violation.

Locks

In the winter locks can freeze.

At a wash of the car watch, that as little as possible water got to locks.

Wheels with steel disks

Disks and caps of wheels wash in the course of a wash of the car.

Cleaning of wheels will prevent adjournment on their surface of products of wear of brake slips, dirt and road salt.

It is possible to remove strongly stuck products of wear of brake slips with acid-free means for cleaning of disks. Kislotosoderzhashchiye means for cleaning of disks can be aggressive in relation to a surface of wheel bolts.

Regular processing of disks by liquid firm wax prevents their premature pollution.

Damages of a paint and varnish covering eliminate before emergence of a rust (Undressed Repair of insignificant damages of body panels).

Light-alloy wheels of wheels

Wash away from disks at least each two weeks products of wear of brake slips and road salt.

Pure wheels process only acid-free means for cleaning of light-alloy wheels.

Each three months thoroughly rub disks with firm wax.

For preservation for a long time a decorative type of light-alloy wheels behind them regular leaving is required. If regularly not to delete products of wear of brake slips and road salt, the called substances will start to corrode an easy alloy.

Process wheels special acid-free means for cleaning of light-alloy wheels. At all do not leave a cleaner more long than time ordered by the instruction. Kislotosoderzhashchiye means for cleaning of disks can be aggressive in relation to a surface of wheel bolts.

It is impossible to use the polish intended for care of paint and varnish coverings, or other abrasive means. In case of damage of a protective varnish covering, for example, from blows of stones, defect eliminate urgently.

Anticorrosive protection of the bottom of a body

In the course of driving damage of a protective layer therefore it is recommended with a certain periodicity - best of all before the beginning of a winter season is not excluded and in the spring - to address on HUNDRED for check, and if necessary for elimination of damages of the sheeting put on the bottom of a body and a running gear of the car.

Preservation of cavities of a body

It is not required to check preservation of cavities of a body.

All cavities of the car subject to corrosion are processed by preserving wax already at plant the manufacturer.

Such preservation does not demand control and the subsequent processing. In case of wax allocation from body cavities at high temperature remove it with a synthetic shaber and flushing gasoline.

Care of salon elements

Synthetic components, imitation leather, slips and upholstery

Synthetic components and imitation leather wipe a damp fabric. If it is not enough of it, these components it is possible process only the special means not containing solvents intended for care of such products.

Slips and an upholstery of doors, consolidations of a luggage carrier, a ceiling are etc. processed by special cleaners or dry foam and a soft sponge.

Genuine leather

At the address and leaving it is necessary to observe a certain care and governed that is caused by exclusively high quality of applied kinds of leather and their special characteristics (sensitivity in relation to oils, fats, pollution etc.).

Avoid long finding of the car on the open sun to keep skin from burning out. At long finding of the car on the sun skin should be protected from direct influence of sunshine.

Regularly and after each cleaning use protective cream. Cream feeds skin, promotes that your leather upholstery remained elastic and promoting breath, and also восстанавливовала humidity. At the same time cream forms or updates protection of a surface.

Clean skin each 2-3 months. Fresh pollution delete at once.

Fresh spots from ball pens, ink, lipsticks, cream for footwear etc. delete as soon as possible.

Care of skin color is necessary also. Special cream on the care of skin color refresh color in the corresponding places.

Furnish from a genuine leather

Normal cleaning

Clean the polluted surface slightly humidified cotton or woolen fabric.

Strong pollution

Strongly polluted places clean a fabric moistened with weak soap solution (two tablespoons of chemically neutral soap on water liter).

Thus surely watch that skin anywhere did not get wet through and that water did not get through seams.

After a sink wipe skin a soft and dry fabric.

Removal of spots

Fresh spots on the basis of water, (for example, coffee, tea, juice, blood etc.) remove with a vlagovpityvayushchy fabric or a napkin. The dried-up spots remove with a cleaner from a set on the care of skin.

Fresh fatty spots (for example, butter, mayonnaise, chocolate etc.) remove with a vlagovpityvayushchy fabric or a napkin, or if the spot was not absorbed yet, a cleaner from a set on the care of skin.

The dried-up fatty spots remove by means of a zhirorastvoryayushchy aerosol.

Special spots (for example, spots for footwear etc.) move away from ball pens, a felt-tip pen, nail polish, disperse paint, cream special spot remover good for skin.

Care of skin

Each half a year process leather means for leaving.

Means on the care of skin put exclusively economically.

Having left for some time for influence, it then erase a soft fabric.

At emergence of questions address on HUNDRED for consultation according to the program of means on the care of the skin which is including, for example:

Set for cleaning and leaving; Painting creams on the care of skin; Spot removers for removal of spots of ball pens, cream for footwear etc.; Zhirorastvoryayushchy aerosol.

Cleaning of skin of Alcantara®

Removal of spots

Moisten a rag with tepid water or the diluted alcohol.

Remove a spot, washing away it a fabric in the direction to the center.

Dry up a soft fabric a zachishchyonny site.

Do not use means on the care of skin.

For removal of a dust and pollution you can use also shampoo on the care of skin.

Dust, parts of dirt in a time, folds and seams promote wear of skin and can damage its surface. At long finding of the car on the sun skin should be protected from direct influence of sunshine to keep it from burning out. The easy change of color caused by operation of skin, is normal.

At all do not clean Alcantara® skin solvents, poloterny wax, cream for footwear, spot removers, means on the care of skin etc.

For skin cleaning at all do not use a brush, rigid sponges etc.

Seat belts

The polluted belts erase weak soap solution.

At strong pollution of a tape of a belt operation of the mechanism of automatic retraction of a tape of a belt can be broken. Before taking-up of a tape of a belt by the mechanism of retraction it should allow to dry out completely.

Do not subject belts to a dry-cleaner as chemical cleaning substances can destroy a fabric. Do not allow also hit on tapes of belts of caustic liquids.

Replace belts at damage of a fabric, connections, mechanisms of retraction of a tape or locks.