engine bay looks well good mate, you can get good money for detailing peoples engine bays.

it does take a fair amount of elbow grease without a doubt but the end result is worth it wooot

whooops currie bout the hole in the water bottle, charlie jetwashed the engine of dennis when she got it and i was a bit wary of doing it and still dont think i would. far too easy murk various electrical conncetions and cos you cant vary the pressure of those jetwashes its a bit sketch

my engine bay was pretty clean as i had taken most of the bits out of it while working on it but i spilt brake fluid a bit over my gear linkages which were all new spangly bits of metal and its made them gay rat look.

DOT fluid sucks!

I'm also a bit dubious about jetwashing the bay. A can of water dispersant, a bit of 'ol rag, a bifter and lots of elbow grease seems a far friendlier option.

yeh random badger you got the hole in one

every mundane job on the car is spiced up by gettni baked mid job

woooop

Thnaks for all the nice comments guys really appreciated :-)

well just few towels of various sizes cotton wool buds for the fiddley bits (still looks crap) and meguires paint cleaner and thats it really and meguires elbow grease as i seem to have run out :-)

wooot its a diesel!!! use a jetwash!

i just did my golf and it came up a treat - only snag i jetwashed a hole in the washer bottle!

yer its never been jetwashed just alot of elbow grease i tried on a box i removed from the mini (in the same condition as the olo) and it just made it wet it isent actually dirty just oxidized. thank sthough mate.

Engine bay looks awesome!! Pressure washer would've been easier but prolly wouldn't finish as well.

What are the 1.9d's like? Really rubbish? What kinda MPG do you get?

and yer probably would of been easier but wheres the fun in that

and sorry mate I'm only 16 so as of yet dont no what they are like i have driven it around our field and it is fairly slow not a patch on valvers but imo diesels are alot easier to work on and alot more reliable than valvers... :-)

u breaking it by any chance mister pinches

no?

I'm guessing by teh question mark you are wondering y? well I'm planning on getting quite a few bits chromed as tuning is completely out the question so I'm just gna get it presentable for shows e.t.c.

Edited 25 October, 200718 yr by POLOMON

oh and also abit abit of advice please, I'm spraying all the blue caps in the bay and some other bits satin black so they dtn stand out as much i was just wondering how to do it? do i:

clean grease off with abit of petrol on a rag

apply a couple of coats of plastic primer

wait over night to dry sand smooth to get rid of the rippled affect in the plastic

apply a couple of coats of satin?

Shiny bits and tidy black bits will look sweet, its suprising how much of a difference just changing rusty bolts makes

Edited 25 October, 200718 yr by randombadger69

yer i hope so and thanks.

surprisingly though i didnt have any rusty bolts... this is a daily car and is an R reg on 50k mileage wise so its surprisingly clean under there

Edited 25 October, 200718 yr by POLOMON

thats nice.

Painting plastic stuff:

Clean it and sand the surface smooth. Give it a couple of light dustings of plastic primer, and sand off any flat spots. Give 2 proper coats of plastic primer, and when dry key the primer with some fine grade of sandpaper. Paint your desired colour, with multiple thin coats.

That's my method. Worked on my oil cap so heat obviously isn't a problem.

Hi, everyone just joined!!

That engine bay is very very clean!!

You can do mine next ha ha!! :-D

for a few quid i can do anyones lol and welcome to the wonderful mad house cp

thanks toby i will crack on with taht tomorrow and get some pics up and thanks for the comments :-D

for a few quid i can do anyones lol and welcome to the wonderful mad house cp

thanks toby i will crack on with taht tomorrow and get some pics up and thanks for the comments :-D

come do mine!

looks great!

Bay is blinging mate, Proper good.

for a few quid i can do anyones lol and welcome to the wonderful mad house cp

thanks toby i will crack on with taht tomorrow and get some pics up and thanks for the comments :-D

come do mine!

looks great!

bring it here and i will! i need help fitting some bits now anwyay so we can help each other out , and there should be abit of an update soon a fellow member is getting a few things fettled for me :-D

for a few quid i can do anyones lol and welcome to the wonderful mad house cp

thanks toby i will crack on with taht tomorrow and get some pics up and thanks for the comments :-D

come do mine!

looks great!

bring it here and i will! i need help fitting some bits now anwyay so we can help each other out , and there should be abit of an update soon a fellow member is getting a few things fettled for me :-D

they're in my boot waiting collection

Oh and Wayne said he posted the battery tray???

Yep i got the tray mate just not the ikle battery ratainer strap thing he said he woudl post it with the other ''things'' :(

Ahh right, i`ll go get it tomorrow gaz said the tray

haha mushroom! and thankin u

HAHA trust me to get it wrong!!

Nice and clean engine bay there mate but dibt worry it'll soon be chrome ay!! blingin!!haha

Gaz

Very nice bay that!

HAHA trust me to get it wrong!!

Nice and clean engine bay there mate but dibt worry it'll soon be chrome ay!! blingin!!haha

Gaz

cough cough and gold cough cough, i finally painted all the bright things black aswell today as the weather was nicer so i will get pics up asap

Edited 6 January, 200818 yr by POLOMON

HAHA trust me to get it wrong!!

Nice and clean engine bay there mate but dibt worry it'll soon be chrome ay!! blingin!!haha

Gaz

cough cough and gold cough cough, i finally painted all the bright things black aswell today as the weather was nicer so i will get pics up asap

That's bloody clean, I'm crap at cleaning my engine bay

sorry to bring u an old thread, just letting people no whats happening.

I've had NOTHING ATALL chormed on the olop as actually gettingt he parst seems to be alot harder than i first imagined! so all i can show really is black bits and bonnet struts. :sad:

as this is my kinda clean thread i thought i may aswell update on my OCD cleaning spree, i am seriously wondering if i actually have OCD hmmm

i this pic you can kinda see int he arch red piant well its rust prevention primer after i treated a few blobs of rust, its all white again now though :p

drummage painted satin black (igonre the ripply look that is just fter paint so it was still settleling) until the GTI beam goes on.

still not happy with this arch, i will have nother crack at the weekend. this is just to show my newely painted whitness :p

and last but not least.. new rears. i no there common but god i love them on white! i honestly hated them on most cars until i saw chrispy's white valver :p

EDIT: edited just to say yes i no its away with the fairies and is sky high but i do have coilies in ma room ready to go on but as its mums daily she wontalow me to lower it again :p and the side strips the same really. they have been off before but got fed up of dings and stuff and mum was wingein i was getin more in the doors so to keep her happy they went back on

Edited 4 April, 200818 yr by POLOMON

lookin good mate, u know what i think of you are cleaaan car spotless arches haha :)

Looking good. Paint looks awsome, so clean and bright white!