Engine bay cleaning

[alan_mcc]

WD40 is good on engine bay plastics, it leaves a nice fresh finish behind and will disperse any water present.

[seaneyb]

Matt a guide on cleaning under the bonnet would be very handy, just potentially bought a new car but the engine bay is filthy for a 6 year old car.

[alan_mcc]

I'd easily write one just now.

[alan_mcc]

Infact is there not one as a sticky?

[chetchet007]

Sean I'm sure there was one posted up from Matt.

To clean the plastics, i'd use WD40 after wiping down with a wet cloth and for the block etc to get rid of oil brake cleaner.

I did mine where my mate works and forgot to take pictures of under the car, again!

Or better still, get it steam cleaned not sure what prices are like near you, but I was quoted £40 and they have a ramp to lift the car up.

[Js4LB]

yeah i saw a sticky guide allthough it was done on a quite new car you get the jist of it and, i just used engine degresser and then rinsed off. then wen i got round me maytes he gave me some megauires engine bay stuff that got my plastics looking new again

[Debo]

BMW 730D;



Using the guide I created earlier in the year (sticky within this section of the forum

[richard_279]

Got any pictures of some really dirty ones that you've done.
They're the best ones to see

[chetchet007]

Got any pictures of some really dirty ones that you've done.
They're the best ones to see

Totally agree!!

Also needs to be an older car where you can see the engine rather than the huge plastic cover.

[Debo]

It's alright sticking in those sorts of requests, but what you have to remember is, the majority of cars I treat are less than 10 years old. I did an '04 plate Civic Type-R friday/saturday, and that was the oldest car I have done in the past 3 months!! Leading up to that, for the past few months all cars have been less than 3 years old!