Hyper Dressing dries to the touch.I avoid any type of underhood dressing, it really attracts a lot of dust and dirt.
Hyper Dressing dries to the touch.I avoid any type of underhood dressing, it really attracts a lot of dust and dirt.
Hyper Dressing dries to the touch.
Yeah I mean don't go blasting Cover All everywhere or you're going to have a bad time.Yeah I would definitely use a water based one. I could see how some would attract dirt though.
Better than the ones that blast everything under the hood with rattle can clear coat. We used to have one around here that did that. A while later you have an engine bay full of yellow cracked crap all over everything.For some reason the dealers around here dump a gallon of tire shine under the hood of NEW cars! So much it puddles up. The first time it happened I thought it was just a rogue detailer but it happened a second time at a different dealer so I finally started telling them no tire shine and no dealership stickers. I'm used to seeing it on used cars but never new.
Better than the ones that blast everything under the hood with rattle can clear coat. We used to have one around here that did that. A while later you have an engine bay full of yellow cracked crap all over everything.
Shiny!!!! And if the car just sits there you never have to reapply it.Why would they do that????
No, that is nonsense. I have done too many road salt, rust related repairs to count, and none of them had anything to do with how clean the engine bay was. Rust in the engine may mean you need some penetrant spray, maybe even shear off a fastener every now and again, but that's about it.Clearly nobody in this world is cleaning their engine bay after every drive. But there's a reason that cars rust away in Ohio and they really don't in Mississippi, and it's not how much moisture they see on the roads. If you wash your engine bay, all that moisture will evaporate very quickly from the heat of the engine, salt spray doesn't go away until you wash it off. There's a reason you should wash your car more in the winter, it's to prevent rust. Salt spray from the road gets into the engine bay, and it's not like it's a corrosion free zone. If you ever watch SMA and see all the corroded electrical connectors they deal with in upstate NY, it's 100% caused by all the salt on the roads.
And I'd like to point out that Scotty is in Texas, so the concept of washing off road salt to prevent rust probably never crossed his mind because they don't need road salt in Texas.
*What is your method for safely cleaning an engine ?Here's the engine bay of a 250k mile Odyssey I did last week:
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Clean everything. A clean machine is a happy machine.
Depends on how grimy it is.*What is your method for safely cleaning an engine ?
I did it yesterday, was really easy. ECU, headlight modules, all kinds of stuff are in the bay but honestly you have to mess up pretty bad to get water in places it shouldn't go. Put the hose nozzle on a mist setting and it worked well along with diluted apc and some small brushes. I didn't end up dressing anything as there are a million nooks and crannies and I didn't want to be at it for an hour.
What do you guys use to dress the plastics underhood? I have tire dressing and interior detailer and stuff like that, I assume it's mostly the same type of thing?