Video: How to Detail your Car Engine

Watch and learn how to detail your car engine, the heart and soul of your vehicle, in this free car washing video about cleaning and detailing your car.

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Anonymous Sep 23, 2011

Nice and informative video. Yes, most of the newest vehicles have ECU's under the hood but for someone who knows car's its really easy to make out where the ECU is located and cover it... most of the other devices inside the engine are pretty water tight or can bear water... one important fact that all must know is that EPA requires (in most states) the wastage from an Engine cleaning to be collected and properly disposed, so do check if its legal for you to clean an engine in your area... If you are unsure how to clean an engine or how to dispose the waste you can always contact us, we at DetailXperts are pioneer in steam cleaning business and are authorized by EPA to collect wastage from car engine cleaning... we dispose properly.

proanti1 Aug 02, 2008

hey... you seem like you know some about cars... you first say toyotas are pretty water tight... then you go ahead to say that lexus' however are not... lexus is made by toyota, all of them. they are even made on the same assembly line (is300 vs. alteza)... so how are they not water tight? older porshes have german bosche components, all boshe components are tested to be waterproof under 12 feet of water.

Video Transcript

In this clip we are going to be talking about engine cleaning. The couple of things that you really need to be careful of when you are detailing or cleaning an engine most modern vehicles have quite a bit of electronic under the hood, double computers and you got to be really careful because if you get one of these computers wet and it shorts it out, we are talking about serious replacement costs into the thousands of dollars. So the steam cleaning of an engine is really no longer practical. I haven’t steamed cleaned engines for quite a long time. Instead I just used a regular garden hose, degreaser and brushes and I just get into the engine real lightly and carefully so that I do not introduce a lot of high pressure water or steam to the engine, which can cause problems. So we will go ahead and start by just using a little bit of water and wetting down the engine compartment including the base of the hood and the engine itself. After we finish wetting down the engine, we will go ahead and use some degreaser. I spray it fairly liberally, but I am still a little bit careful on some of the component. Be careful when using degreaser in direct sunlight. The sunlight accelerates the action of the cleaner and when it drips down the side of the fenders and it gets on plastic component, make sure that those components aren’t hot because if that’s the case, then you might actually make a mark with it, so wipe off any extra residue. If there was a lot of oil, I would have to recover it somehow. Most states have laws about cleaning engine regardless if it is residential or commercial and it is illegal to drop oil on the ground that goes down the gutter. After you have gone ahead and sprayed the degreaser, I use the paintbrush to agitate. After you have done agitating the degreaser go ahead and rinse. This is a Toyota and Toyota’s are pretty watertight but there are certain models of cars we have to be very careful about when you do this; Jaguar, Porsche and Lexus even have a tendency to breakdown when you put a lot of water under the hood. The best way to dry out the engine compartment after you have done cleaning it is with an air compressor. I get the majority of the water with the air and then I go over it again afterwards with a towel.

How to Detail your Car Engine

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