Engine Bay

[clairehall]

Iv been wanting to clean my engine bay up, my saxo engine bay was immaculate and i want the same for my ibiza.

Its mainly down the side of the inside panels and hose ect...........I can see alot of dirt hanging around.

To make a good difference i will need to paint the rocker cover ( abit worried taking it off tho)

Get silicone hosing (blue)


any other clean suggestion, products ect will be great




thanks

 

[Berg]

Rocker cover is dead easy.

Unlike the saxo it has a proper rubber gasket, ive had mine off three times now on the original gasket and no leaks etc

Just take coil packs out, remove the charge pipe, undo all nuts and it will come off

 

[leighwinter]

wazzup claire i was on saxperience used to talk to you and drew whats the new motor look like then any plans?

 

[clairehall]

hey leigh how u doing? new cars great iv got progress thread on here and on saxp.


Thanks berg

 

[stuibaby]

Hey Claire - I too really want to take my Rocker cover off and spray it up and have the same concerns,

I had a Honda CRX and when i took the rocker off - the threads for the bolts stripped on one corner - Leaking problem after re-fitting obviously - Im sure the Germans did a better job on these lumps though

Were you at TRAX - i was there in my recently acquired Cupra (We were nicely located byt he toilet block!)

Anyway - look forward to peoples suggestions here.

 

[clairehall]

Yeah was at trax with my boyfirends red ibiza cupra? i seen a silver, blue and yellow cupra at trax

 

[stuibaby]

Yeah - there were a couple of Silvers there on the day and a gorgeous white one on the Track.

 

[cupraR59]

mine was the yellow one with white wheels

 

[clairehall]

Yeah seen that, you were talking to my bf drew with his red one on the saxo stand.

We walked over to see yours, looks good, love the eyebrows looked very clean

 

[cupraR59]

thank you i put a lot of time into it to get it to look like that for the show and the eybrows are for sale if you fancy them ? as got a carbon bonnet and dont think they would look rite imo

 

[-=Rob=-]

Rocker cover is dead easy.

Unlike the saxo it has a proper rubber gasket, ive had mine off three times now on the original gasket and no leaks etc

Just take coil packs out, remove the charge pipe, undo all nuts and it will come off

Sounds easy to me, do the nuts need torqing down to a set amount?