Why Do You Need Silicone Connector Seals For Your Car?

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Silicone connector seals are commonly used in automobiles and have many excellent properties. Let's learn more about them together.

1. Weather resistance

Silicone rubber has good weather resistance, excellent ozone, and UV resistance, and can be used around the engine and parts exposed to the air.

2. High-temperature resistance

Due to the car's internal structure, small space, compact, well-sealed, inevitably lead to heat dissipation difficulties, such as the engine compartment, disc brake system, and exhaust system are high-temperature sealing space, the choice of rubber materials must consider the high-temperature resistance.

Silicone rubber is a silicone polymer with a silicon-oxygen bond as the main chain, and the stable silicon oxidation structure determines the most outstanding characteristic of silicone rubber is the wide range of temperature resistance, which can be used in an environment of 300 degrees, and will not age under the condition of more than 200 degrees for a long time, so it is used in a large number of the engine compartment, turbo system, brake system, and exhaust system seals, sealing sleeves, shock-absorbing pads, and lugs, etc.

3. Strength

Silicone rubber tensile strength and tear strength and other mechanical properties are poor, at room temperature, its physical and mechanical properties are not as good as most synthetic rubber, so silicone rubber is not suitable for the manufacture of rubber parts under greater stress.

4. Low-temperature resistance

Silicone rubber not only has excellent resistance to high temperature, but also has excellent resistance to low temperature, and can maintain a certain strength and elasticity at -80 degrees.

5. Environmental requirements

Silicone rubber is odorless, non-toxic, and non-corrosive. The automotive industry uses the environmental characteristics of silicone rubber to manufacture automotive interiors, adhesives, connector seals, and other products that can be in contact with people.

6. Solvent resistance

General silicone rubber oil resistance and solvent resistance performance are poor, not suitable for the manufacture of contact grease and solvent rubber parts; after special synthesis of silicone rubber and fluorosilicone rubber, etc. have certain oil resistance, but expensive, less application. 

7. Electrical properties

Silicone rubber has excellent electrical properties, and its electrical properties are affected by temperature is very small, is a kind of excellent performance and stable insulating materials.

8. Decorative properties

Silicone rubber can be made into colorless and transparent products, and because of good colorability, it can also be made into colorful products. Therefore, silicone rubber is the most decorative rubber. Moreover, silicone rubber can be made into various hardness products, with hardness ranging from 10 to 90 Shore A. The products are soft and elastic, comfortable to touch, and suitable for automobile interior decoration parts.

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