Well, having now been driving around in a little Civic everyday for the past month, last week I decided to take my baby out for a blast.
Her she is North of Lochearnhead. Sadly the light was fading and without a tripod I had to blow the sky (hate compacts).
Anyhow, seeing as that was probably going to be the last outting this year I thought I'd do some cleaning while waiting on the mopar cover.
Snow foamed (with Meg's Super Degreaser) and pressure washed the underside to remove as much crud as possible although it was pretty tidy.
No afters as my arthritic knees were killing me, even with a cushion. Was on them for 2 hours getting it clean.
Washed the top half and then put the stuff away, couldn't take any more.
Yesterday, thought I'd tackle under the hood. Something's always bugged me under here, those little metal pipes everywhere. I tried to buff them up before with no luck. Picked up a bottle of AutoGlym Metal Polish a while back and had great success with it so decided to give it a go...
Wow. Little bit of effort but hardest bit was getting to them, these two weren't bad but there were 6 of them, 2 very tricky ones.
Another two
Before:
After:
Full shot:
Then got on my back and done the mufflers - pipe work next year tho...
Forgot a proper before:
After:
So there we have it. Just a little thing but, dayum what a difference it makes.
Shame the alt, AC compressor and block are a different finish. Soooo want to get chrome/polished parts up front and get the block painted Mopar orange, maybe in time...
Thanks for looking. :thumbsup:
Her she is North of Lochearnhead. Sadly the light was fading and without a tripod I had to blow the sky (hate compacts).
Anyhow, seeing as that was probably going to be the last outting this year I thought I'd do some cleaning while waiting on the mopar cover.
Snow foamed (with Meg's Super Degreaser) and pressure washed the underside to remove as much crud as possible although it was pretty tidy.
No afters as my arthritic knees were killing me, even with a cushion. Was on them for 2 hours getting it clean.
Washed the top half and then put the stuff away, couldn't take any more.
Yesterday, thought I'd tackle under the hood. Something's always bugged me under here, those little metal pipes everywhere. I tried to buff them up before with no luck. Picked up a bottle of AutoGlym Metal Polish a while back and had great success with it so decided to give it a go...
Wow. Little bit of effort but hardest bit was getting to them, these two weren't bad but there were 6 of them, 2 very tricky ones.
Another two
Before:
After:
Full shot:
Then got on my back and done the mufflers - pipe work next year tho...
Forgot a proper before:
After:
So there we have it. Just a little thing but, dayum what a difference it makes.
Shame the alt, AC compressor and block are a different finish. Soooo want to get chrome/polished parts up front and get the block painted Mopar orange, maybe in time...
Thanks for looking. :thumbsup: