What did you and your MK2 do today?
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Hey mate, what did you use for cleaning out the FR engine bay? Looks nice and tidy now!
I'm looking to doing the engine bay a good tidy up, but never cleaned an engine bay before, not even my old 1.9 TDi
As for today, I've finally got the car jacked up and taken what was left of the sump guard off, went over a ford and it got sodden and tore off from the front, the back was held on but slowly shredding on the floor. Was held on by 2 plastic inserts (30T) one came off pretty easy, the other was solid so got threaded
Got it off either way though, long nosed pliers
--Lee
Today I gave the FR a good detail
Washed, dried, Clayed, polished and finally Waxed cleaned the windows and dressed the tyres too!
Broke the rear wiper arm clip whilst fitting a new wiper so fitted a delete kit from "kill all wipers" cleans the rear end up nicely
Also glossed blacked the stone chips in the grill surround glossed the badge and the tatty numberplate plinth
And the delete bung....
Interior to do tomorrow!
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Washed, dried, Clayed, polished and finally Waxed cleaned the windows and dressed the tyres too!
Broke the rear wiper arm clip whilst fitting a new wiper so fitted a delete kit from "kill all wipers" cleans the rear end up nicely
Also glossed blacked the stone chips in the grill surround glossed the badge and the tatty numberplate plinth
And the delete bung....
Interior to do tomorrow!
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Hey mate, what did you use for cleaning out the FR engine bay? Looks nice and tidy now!
I'm looking to doing the engine bay a good tidy up, but never cleaned an engine bay before, not even my old 1.9 TDi
As for today, I've finally got the car jacked up and taken what was left of the sump guard off, went over a ford and it got sodden and tore off from the front, the back was held on but slowly shredding on the floor. Was held on by 2 plastic inserts (30T) one came off pretty easy, the other was solid so got threaded
Got it off either way though, long nosed pliers
--Lee
I use Autoglym engine and machine cleaner and a small brush to loosen everything, then wipe with a microfibre. The brush helps get where your hands can't.
Today I gave the FR a good detail
Washed, dried, Clayed, polished and finally Waxed cleaned the windows and dressed the tyres too!
Broke the rear wiper arm clip whilst fitting a new wiper so fitted a delete kit from "kill all wipers" cleans the rear end up nicely
Also glossed blacked the stone chips in the grill surround glossed the badge and the tatty numberplate plinth
And the delete bung....
Interior to do tomorrow!
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Liking the wiper delete, looks very neat. Just dont know if I could live without the rear wiper.
Its one of them accidental things I didn't want to remove the "LEON" badge at first but the L came off so I removed it all same with the rear wiper!
I don't really use it tbh never had one on most of my cars!
And the delete bung....
Interior to do tomorrow!
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I want to rmeove mine, but i don't think we can do it in Portugal.
I want to rmeove mine, but i don't think we can do it in Portugal.
Why? Could always say it fell off
Can't you use the "it was like that when I bought the car?" Excuse?I want to rmeove mine, but i don't think we can do it in Portugal.
And the delete bung....
Looks great!
I did mine a couple of years back but some
pushed the cover plate in when it was raining and my boot lid ended up soaked through inside. ![[:@]](/forums/styles/seatcupra/oldforumsmileys/furious.gif "Furious [:@]")
After that I put the wiper back but disabled it.
Took the car to have the passenger side wiper linkage changed and also picked up my short shifter from the sorting office.
Fitted the short shifter. Took a little longer than expected due to not being able to engage 1st or 2nd after fitting, but a little adjustment and its now ok.
Going to take it for a spin now and see how it is.
Also scanned the car and found a number of faults that I'm not going to have to investigate
Going to take it for a spin now and see how it is.
Also scanned the car and found a number of faults that I'm not going to have to investigate
I remember that horrible feeling when it wouldn't go into gear, thought I'd knackered the box haha
Fitted the short shifter. Took a little longer than expected due to not being able to engage 1st or 2nd after fitting, but a little adjustment and its now ok.
Going to take it for a spin now and see how it is.
Also scanned the car and found a number of faults that I'm not going to have to investigate
Which shifter bracket did you fit ? Did you also change the bushes for the metal type ?
Was worse when I took it out, lost 5th and 6th lol. I sourced the issue to the "side to side" linkage as its moving out of place due to the white plastic bush missing from the pivot bracket. Must of been broken by whoever had the linkage off last.
Will have to order a new one, but have put a temporary fix in place for now.
Just an eBay one off another member on here. No didn't do the bushes.
Thats a long detail. Must be costing a fair whack for 3 days, assuming they're spending the full 3 days on the car?
I need to do mine when the weathers better.
I need to do mine when the weathers better.
It is a bit, it's one of my mates who has his own detailing business which is very well regarded, I doubt he will spend 3 full days on it but from watching him work he will spend a hell of a lot of time on it, It will be worth it in the end though
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