Engine bay cleaning help!

Need some help on cleaning the engine bay of my golf! Got lots of dust in there and would look so much better if it was all nice and black not clay red like it is now! Cheers!

I use chemical guys orange degreaser, just be careful if you use it neat as it will remove paint. Water it down 50/50 and spray the area, brush the product in with a tooth brush then wash away. Use some chemicals guys new look trim gel on black pipes and plastics. Wax any paint surfaces.

I did mine like that below, the pic of the right side was basically the same as the left. did all of that with orange degreaser and a toothbrush.




An airline is great for blasting bits out but I didn't have access to one at the time.

its all about chem guys !!!!

Awesome! Cheers guys

While we're on the subject of being detailing nazis... im after some good stuff to get stubborn bits of tar and other general road shite off?

sounds like your mk5 needs a good claying
believe it or not the auto glym bug and tar remover is good before clay and it also removes wax from the car
matt

the joys of the clay bar... i stupidly bought a dodo juice supernatural clay bar and some born slippy lube... they are very much neglected, does my nut in rubbing an inch at a time!

feel like rhys during his happy sessions!!

There is suppoed to be a good chem guys bug and ter remover that you literally apply and wash off. not tried it myself

sounds like my kind of thing

always remove the tar before you clay it will rip apart your clay bar otherwise , for clay lube i just use some water with a tiny bit of car shampoo in it its a fraction of the price and works just as well

cheers

if anyone has considered it... industrial solvents aren't a good idea!

I painted a 60mm square of metal with primer, basecoat and CHEMICAL PROOF LACQUER and then tested it a couple of days later against some '3M scotch weld solvent no.2'... needless to say it wiped away to bare metal as if it was grease in one wipe...

Stay away from the hard stuff kids!

methyl ethyl ketone clean it properly !






p.s. dont... it would be worse than the fairy powerspray insident...

haha, that was a good incident... purple motorbike ftw