Engine Bay Detailing
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Had another go at detailing the engine bay today, was better than last time but still not overly impressed. The degreaser did it's job ok but the Aerospace 303 wasn't great, thought it would be a mist spray that would settle, but it seems to need rubbing in and then can be a bit patchy? Any help for a newbie appreciated... P.S. Must remember to remove the plastic bag before starting the engine 
Original before clean 1
Before clean 2
After clean 2
Original before clean 1
Before clean 2
After clean 2
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Anonymous
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flimper said:After clean 2
Classic damp engine cause. Run the car for a little while to help dry it. 303 should be spray and leave, with minimal wipe downs (mainly areas where it collects as a pool of liquid).
You don't need much either. As an example of exactly the same process and dressing product;
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http://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/blog/2012/02/303-aerospace-protectant-demo-video/
Do any of you do any underside detailing?
I mean I spend a fair amount of time under my car :roll: so I want that to be also in at least good technical and representative order.
Most pictures of UK cars I see are in (to me) pretty bad state, probably due to that the UK has even more rain than mainland europe, UK weather is pretty bad for a car as I even read about the occasional rust here on some bodypanels (and maybe cars are less garaged in the UK).
Most parts that come off my car I refurbish. Aluminium parts I beadblast, I got the complete rear axle out to blast/paint etc.
I'm always very jealous if I see pics of us california cars that look absolutely like new after 10+ years due to the climate.
So I can really enjoy a video like this (I never did anything on this scale).
Very thoroughly done (although the colorsceme is pretty marmite but that's a customers choice).
I imagine this is pretty expensive as obviously it costs a lot of time (and all the new fixings etc, the powdercoating)
But it shows that they take great pride in their job at Redish
[youtube]yAzyc8S6boE[/youtube]
Has anyone here ever had this done?
I mean I spend a fair amount of time under my car :roll: so I want that to be also in at least good technical and representative order.
Most pictures of UK cars I see are in (to me) pretty bad state, probably due to that the UK has even more rain than mainland europe, UK weather is pretty bad for a car as I even read about the occasional rust here on some bodypanels (and maybe cars are less garaged in the UK).
Most parts that come off my car I refurbish. Aluminium parts I beadblast, I got the complete rear axle out to blast/paint etc.
I'm always very jealous if I see pics of us california cars that look absolutely like new after 10+ years due to the climate.
So I can really enjoy a video like this (I never did anything on this scale).
Very thoroughly done (although the colorsceme is pretty marmite but that's a customers choice).
I imagine this is pretty expensive as obviously it costs a lot of time (and all the new fixings etc, the powdercoating)
But it shows that they take great pride in their job at Redish
[youtube]yAzyc8S6boE[/youtube]
Has anyone here ever had this done?
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flimper said:Cheers JADI tried rubbing it in straight away through fear of leaving a horrible white residue that I couldn't shift
More than welcome and totally understandable. Luckily if there is any residue it's in fluid/very thin gel form, so easily "buff-able"!