Snow brushes for cleaning the car from snow - inexpensive, medium and elite models
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Fragile plastic in the cold will break after a few uses, so a cheap brush will be disposable. Such a thing is suitable for completing machines operated in the south, where snow falls a couple of times a year.
A tool that in the non-hot climate of our country must be in every car is a snow brush for a car. You can’t do without it in the winter; in the autumn leaf fall, it will also help out. Even for such a simple thing there are selection rules.
Choosing a brush for cleaning a car from snow
Preferences when buying car snow brushes are shaped by their tasks. After a good snowstorm, the entire body will be littered with a thick cap of dense snow, often packed into a dense mass. The inevitable icy frost has to be scraped off the windows every morning. If you drive in a snowfall, then precipitation mixed with road dirt almost instantly sticks to the headlights and windshield, and it becomes simply impossible to move blindly.
Having understood what work the snow brush does for the car, you can also describe the wishes for its device.
- Brush bristle. Sufficient rigidity is required so that it does not crumple, only smoothing the crust of the stale sediment, but penetrates into the depth and effectively sweeps it off the body.
- Pile length. Too short bristles are inconvenient to use, since you need to control all the time so that the plastic base of the tool does not scratch the surface of the body. An overly long “panicle” is inconvenient because after cleaning, accumulated snow remains between its rods, which cannot always be completely shaken out. Once in the car, it thaws, then freezes again on the street, turning into hard ice. If you work with a frozen tool, there is a risk of scratching the paintwork.
- The length of the working surface. Both too long and too short brushes are inconvenient to use. The short has a small grip, and you need a lot of unnecessary movements. A very wide one will rake in front of a whole snowdrift, which simply does not have enough strength to move.
- Handle length. It is desirable that it allows cleaning without going around the car from all sides. If a tiny city runabout can be easily covered with any tool, then a tall SUV will make you run around if the handle is not made telescopic (sliding).
- Handle material. It is good if it is covered with warming soft material so that hands without gloves do not freeze.
- Additional fittings. Usually, in addition to the panicle itself, a brush for cleaning snow from a car is equipped with an ice scraper (flat or with spikes), a flexible rubber water separator to remove drops of water from windows and wipers after they are heated.
- Material quality. Frost resistance is required from plastic. Panicle bristles made of polypropylene or (in expensive models) silicone do not scratch the paint. The handle is quite strong and rigid, metal is preferable here.
Some general principles of categorization still exist.
Inexpensive brushes for cleaning the car from snow
A common representative of this group is an unnamed snow brush for cleaning snow from a car of an unknown manufacturer (with Chinese characters on the label), made of plastic of poisonous-screaming colors. Short plastic handle, narrow bristles, removable front scraper. The price is the most democratic, from 70 to 150 rubles.
Snow and ice brush
Fragile plastic in the cold will break after a few uses, so the purchase will be a one-time purchase. Suitable for completing machines operated in the south, where snow falls a couple of times a year.
Models in the middle price segment
Products are more solid in manufacture and are recommended to the bulk of car owners. The price range is from 200 to 700 rubles. The handles are already made of frost-resistant plastic or a round metal pipe, they have insulating linings. The bristle is firmly held. The best representatives of the group are supplied with a telescopic sliding handle.
Elite car cleaning brushes
An elite-level snow brush for a car is of the best quality, it takes into account all the requirements for convenience and durability. The nozzle is mounted on the handle through a rotary device with a lock button, which allows you to securely fix the tool both in the longitudinal and in the transverse position. The handle itself is only made of metal with a triangular or square section to eliminate the rotation of the nozzle. Silicone bristle bristles prevent paint scratches.
The price will be in the range of 800-1200 rubles, it is justified by a service life of several years. European firms produce such products at their own factories - FISKARS, GoodYear. It is the Goodyear snow brush for the car, made in Germany, that occupies the top line in the 2020 ranking.
