An Engine Bay Thread

The wonders of 3 tins of gloss black spray and a tin of lacquer




Jimski

heres mine

here is mine..

standard



not so standard

CupraR210 said:

Jesus, thats one clean Ibiza RedRum. What products do you use??

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Just use megs and Sonus stuff mate. I clean it fairly regularly like

yeah i can see that, looks stunning.
Will have to invest in Megs and Sonus stuff myself and ditch the Autoglymm if those are the results, haha.
Cheers Redrum for the advice

Not a brilliant shot, but hey ho,

As it was in 2004



As it stands today

here a pic of ours



dunno why but to me it looks messy for some reason hmmmmmmm

roly, what power steering resovoir do you have? its massive compared to mine?

crezz said:

roly, what power steering resovoir do you have? its massive compared to mine?

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standard mk3 cupra one by looks of it

what even in his first picture too?

yeah looks like it

has anyone on here DIY sprayed hteir engine and or battery cover? I want to do mine gloss black but don't know how to prep it and how many layer what wet and dry to get blah blah!

hey aimez, i done mine but mine was all in bits when i done it... what bits you want doing? differnent bits need different prep.

crezz said:

roly, what power steering resovoir do you have? its massive compared to mine?

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I can't remember if it's still the mk2 one or not, got a feeling it is tho, think the mk2 and mk3 are the same (later mk2 models anyway)

crezz said:

hey aimez, i done mine but mine was all in bits when i done it... what bits you want doing? differnent bits need different prep.

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only the engine cover and battery as I've seen alot of mk 4 owners have done

I got my engine cover battery cover and air box done in gloss black my mate did mine think he just rubbed it down then primer then sprayed it then lacquered.Had my engine cover done yesterday again so looks better.Havin the front cross member done gloss black then my intercooler pipe done red.rear bumper goin on first theo