Owners Manual
BYD AUTO F3 OWNER’S MANUAL
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places with heavy pollution.
(4) Use clean and soft cloth or
sponge to wash the vehicle and
avoid mixing metal scraps and
sand particles. Do not use dry
cloth, dry towel, or dry sponge to
clean the vehicle to avoid
scratching. Follow the water flow
direction and wipe from top to
bottom. Do not wipe circularly or
transversally.
(5) Clean the special high corrosive
vestiges (e.g. asphalt, guano, and
insects) immediately. Use special
detergent to clean. Do not use a
blade to scrape or use gasoline to
clean so as to protect the paint.
(6) Do not touch the paint with
smeary hands or wipe the paint
with oily rag. Do not put tools
with smear or rag with organic
solvents on the vehicle so as to
avoid chemical reaction.
(7) If there are no obvious scratches,
do not spray new paint to avoid
incongruent paint colors or bad
combination.
(8) If you won’t use the vehicle for a
long time, park it in the garage or
at places with good ventilation.
Put on a special vehicle cover in
winter. For temporary parking,
select cool area.
(9) Do not impact, knock on or
scratch paint film. Repair the
damage, depression, or cast of the
paint in time in a professional
auto maintenance store.
(10) Use carbon detergent to clean
plating metal parts and wax
regularly.
(11) Use high quality detergent to
clean the decoration parts. Do not
wipe too heavy when waxing to
avoid penetrating the paint layer.
Wax the paint randomly and maintain
in professional auto maintenance
shop regularly (once every season) so
as to resume the gloss of the paint in
time.
Washing and waxing
Washing your BYD F3/F3-R
Keep your vehicle clean by regular
washing.
Wash your vehicle as soon as
possible upon corrosion.
● When driving in a coastal area,
the paint layer may go off
● When driving on a road sprinkled
with antifreeze
● When exposed to coal tar, tree
sap, bird droppings and carcass
of an insect
● When driving in areas where
there is a lot of smoke, soot, dust,
iron, dust or chemical substances
● When the vehicle becomes
remarkably dirty with dust and
mud
Hand-washing your BYD F3
Work in the shade and wait until the
vehicle body is not hot to the touch.
CAUTION
When cleaning under the floor or
chassis, be careful not to injure
your hands.