Cleaning the engine cover help

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coreydors
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Cleaning the engine cover help

Post by coreydors » Sat Jul 26, 2014 5:50 pm

Hi does anyone know the best way to clean the carbon fibre engine covers, mine have gone a little faded.

Is there a polish I can use ?

Any help would be greatful thanks.

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Re: Cleaning the engine cover help

Post by IanH755 » Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:49 pm

I use Meguiars Plastic-X first to clean the cover and then normal car wax (Meguiars Gold Class) and haven't had any issues.
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Re: Cleaning the engine cover help

Post by coreydors » Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:05 pm

IanH755 wrote:I use Meguiars Plastic-X first to clean the cover and then normal car wax (Meguiars Gold Class) and haven't had any issues.
Cheers mate,

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Re: Cleaning the engine cover help

Post by longman h » Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:18 pm

I've meaning to ask this question for a while so thanks for the info Ian. :thumbs:
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