Spent Sunday giving the engine bay a much needed cleaning. Bought one of those spray-on foaming engine degreasers that is rinsed off with a hose after letting it sit and work its magic for 15 minutes. Well ... as you can see from the photos below, nothing magical happened here! There was absolutely no difference! Any coloration difference that you do see in these photos are due to the camera's exposure. The "before" picture was taken early in the morning when the sun was barely out, and the "after" picture was later in the day. Trust me ... nothing happened! It's gonna take way more than foam to move the 3 decades of dirt in this engine bay! As with everything else on this car that has 3 settings (lights - dim, dimmer, off), the engine bay's are greasy, greasier, greasiest. Looks like I'll have to do this the hard way ... piece-by-piece. We'll just call this morning's wasted effort the "Pre Engine Bay Detailing" exercise shall we?
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Small Victory! Dissatisfied with this morning's defeat. I decided to take on the engine bay again later in the day, starting with the smallest part that I could remove without much hassle - the cap for the coolant overflow reservoir. Besides, I had the rotary tool all charged up and nowhere else to go. 20 Minutes later yielded the following results. Hah ha! And that's basically me turning a frown upside down!
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2 comments:
Have your car sent to my friend's place here: http://autodetailed.com/AutoDetailer/The_Galleria/Pages/Engine_Detailing.html
and then get it shipped back to the states. With the way your SUD is dropping, I think it will be money well spent
Wow! They do really impressive work.
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