Hello family,

I may be in the wrong section but this has been on my mind for the past two weeks. Does anyone have a good way to clean your engine bay. I have been looking at mine and it looks horrible. Even though the weather is cold out side I need to do something. So any feedback on this will help. Thanks

 

If you have the alternator and battery terminals covered, you can actually spray some engine cleaner/degreaser and hose it off. It works really well. I've used Simple Green before with good results as well.

 

You can actually post this in the Wash and Wax section. There's several threads discussing this in that section over there already.

 

Thanks for the info. Mods please close at your leisure.

 

Here are a two great articles on engine bay detailing:
How to detail your engine bay
Here's an Acura TL specific engine bay how-to

The key is to degrease the engine bay, rinse, then dress and protect.

Hope this helps.

 

Since I don't like to flood the engine compartment. I have used waterless hand cleaner on plastic parts and the dirt/grime rubs off with a dry towel. Easy and very safe to do with a nice clean look.

 

I used the same techniques for this monster below as are outlined in the tutorials George listed above: