Do you clean your car properly?
Running your car through the car wash and vacuuming the interior makes your car look clean, but there are things that are hidden from your eyes. Namely bacteria. Would you eat a hamburger without washing your hands after visiting a public toilet?
Interior breeding ground for bacteria
Hopefully, your answer to that question is 'no'. Then it's strange that you do eat a hamburger behind the wheel of your car. Your steering wheel is a breeding ground for bacteria. Just like other places in your car that you touch regularly, such as the door handle, gear stick, your seat belt and the buttons on your radio. When was the last time you wiped that with an antiseptic wipe?
Food waste
If you’re like us and you drive through the fast food drive-through, you might want to disinfect the interior of your car regularly. Bacteria thrive on food scraps that end up on the steering wheel and other places in your car via your hands. When the temperature rises in your parked car in the summer, these microorganisms multiply rapidly.
Now, most bacteria are harmless, but some can cause serious food poisoning. They live not only on your steering wheel and gear stick, but also in the fabric upholstery of your car seats and the floor mats. Vacuuming alone is not enough to make short work of the little pathogens. But how do you clean your car hygienically?
Hygienic car cleaning
For the plastic surfaces in your car, such as your steering wheel, door handles and gear stick, it is best to use antibacterial cleaning wipes. You can easily store these in your car and use them when you are waiting at the traffic lights. With this you 'extinguish' the largest bacterial hotbeds in your interior. Also take a bottle of disinfectant hand gel with you to clean your hands after a visit to the gas station.
Don't forget your car seats and floor mats
You can clean your car seats with a carpet cleaner or a vacuum cleaner and water vacuum cleaner, which you can rent. You can also use it to clean your floor mats. You can also clean your floor mats 'normally' with water and cleaning soap. Incidentally, you can buy a new set of car mats for a few tens of euros. Finally, bacteria can also end up in your interior filter and spread through the air. Therefore, replace your interior filter every year or with every minor and major service.
Be honest: how often do you clean your car hygienically? And do you eat in your car? Or is eating strictly forbidden in your sacred cow? Let us know in a comment! At Adrem you can always get a clean car in the Sittard region rent!
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