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CAR CARE is no easy job. It does not suffice if you wash the vehicle every weekend and send it for periodical maintenance. You may take care to park it in shade and cover it with tarpaulin. Nevertheless, within six or eight months, the brand new car loses its sheen. Its paint loses the glossy cover and it gleams no more.

Reason? There are a variety of factors that work on the exteriors of a car. The humidity, the sun light, the stones and pebbles kicked up from passing vehicles and how many of you know that even the tar on road gets deposited on the sides of the vehicle. Though the tar particles cannot be seen with a naked eye, everything adds to the damage.

How does one take care of the vehicle? Simple. Send it to a `beauty clinic'. Or summon the beauticians to your house. In about three or four hours, the beauticians, equipped with imported equipment would clean your car, polish the exteriors, give a shampoo treatment to the upholstery and give such a shine to the body that your lady love would try to give a final touch- up to her make-up by looking at her reflection from the car body.

Yes! Finally, the scientific way of cleaning the car exteriors and interiors is available in Hyderabad. The Auto Coats, who call themselves car appearance specialists, have begun their operations recently. Armed with imported equipment and cleaning materials like polymer sealant coatings, waxes from Germany, Auto Coats technicians would certainly change the look of your car.

The steam cleaner, which looks like a vacuum cleaner, sprays dry steam at a temperature of 150 degree Centigrade. The steam which is let out at a four bar pressure contains very less moisture and the steam jet would not only remove the dust but also sanitises the upholstery. The rotary multi-speed buffing machine would remove all sorts of minor scratches, tar particles and oxidation marks. The special polymer resin based polish given with a mechanised buffing unit would ensure a glossy finish and the sealant coating would form a layer to protect the body paint.

Of course! All this would cost some money and if you do not have time to take the vehicle to Auto Coats, you can as well call them up on 7719864. The car beauticians would call at your house and give the beauty treatment to the car at your doorstep.

By K. Srinivas Reddy

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