Polishing the Engine bay.

Busy cleaning the Engine bay of my brand new Golf (well 1990, but new to me), I noticed my wife and neighbour laughing. 'Why are you cleaning in there, nobody will see it anyway'?, ' The rest is falling to bits and you have spent a couple of hours polishing the engine' They asked.

OK am I mad? Is this normal? Am I the only person that likes to work on a clean engine, if not is it only VW owners? If so is it only Mk1 owners? Or do Corsa owners and Fiesta owners fondle their greasy bits as my wife puts it :-)

Lastly if we have the urge to polish our engines why did VW leave so many fiddly bits so we rip our hands to bits trying to get that last bit of grime out?

 

im just as bad  :wink:
Bert

if you think your a bit crazy check out

www.detailingworld.co.uk

probably right up your street and has loads of information on cleaning your car and you can see how much detail some people go into.

i started cleaning mine a while back and still need to finish its pretty much got 26 years of grime around there and lots of pointy bits which like to jump out at my arms so i didnt manage to last that long

Hurray! I'm not mad.

Bert, bloody hell!!!!!! Fantastic, I'm impressed.

as long as you know its clean wat does it matter its a golf thang 8)

im on the way to doing mine and hopefully will be on par with berts but i doublt it lol
its what you think though its your golf at the end of the day.
get some pictures up so we can have a ganders  :y:

I can't see any problem being a tad OCD when it comes to cleaning.

Check out the detailing on this new 09 Frozen White Focus RS…

http://passionford.com…rozen-white-focus-rs.html

detailing world is brilliant, has helped me no end  8)

Don't think it mad at all. My brother has just started mirror polishing the engine, will look great when its done.

i am just as bad.. good thing is once it is all clean it is much easier to keep it that way, a quick rub over and it's all good again…..
getting it there is another matter however… :?

nowt wrong with this,ive detailed every cars engine bay that ive ever owned,also it helps you to get to know your engine bay and its then easier for repairs etc.

Mine needs a going over again, drove it all through winter and messed it up.

T

i'm in the process of doing mine…

can anyone recommend a kit of some sort to get the aluminium bit bright and shiny please..? ta

i'd say just some sort of metal polish and a hell of a lot of elbow grease. been using autoglym metal polish on a load of bare metal pieces recently works a treat.

In those pictures it looks like people have new rad top cards where can you gets these from?

excuse the rusty starter motor… but for a 26 year old engine bay i dont think it looks too shabby

everythings been stripped and powder coated where possible, bay was sprayed, engine full overhaul… not a show bay by any means but deffinitely pretty

seen a few new rad cards on e-bay
slippy8v