intercooler cleaning

[strangley brown]

my front mesh is looking grubby and the front of the intercooler is black
anybody know the best way to clean it(rather than spraying it silver)
as im taking the bumper off now would be a perfik time.
And were is the cooler spray nossil i think this is blocked as well
again good time to do it cheers an advance
cliff

[E3GSR]

I don't know if this will be a permanent fix for you cliff, but we spray ours with wheel cleaner when we wash the car and pressure wash it off.

When we take our bumper off (after JAE) our intercooler is going to get re finned then it should look like new.

But some mild cleaning agent should bring it up quite nice. i.e oven cleaner (fairy power spray is awesome also good for alloys)


Hth

T

[strangley brown]

cheers neil i'll give it a go :-)

[E3GSR]

Originally Posted by cliff allan

cheers neil i'll give it a go :-)

Cough Cough It was not Neil Cliff

Trina

[strangley brown]

sorry i wasn't looking T
i didn't see the T
T

Cliff, if you do that, wash it from the back not the front. Otherwise you push the dead flies and stones etc further into the fins

[strangley brown]

will i have to take it off.
i dont have a jetter to wash it through

[user4034]

I used mequiars alloy wheel cleaner I sprayed it and rinsed about 4 times, cleaned it very well, don't worry if it leaves the metal a funny colour this dissapears after a few days :-)

Originally Posted by cliff allan

will i have to take it off.
i dont have a jetter to wash it through

You will but if you're taking the bumper off anyway it'll take you another 5 minutes to remove the inercooler. No jetwash, either take it to the local petrol station or do what i do, hosepipe with a nozzle :muhaha:

[evo3ben]

And as for the solid side bits get some metal cleaner and this brings them up nice and shiny
As for the mesh, to be perfectly honest you are better off spraying it. Take it off the bumper give it a good clean and spray it what ever colour you want! :-) Then spray some lacqure over it to protect. Should last you another year or so. I take my bumper off once a year to give it all a freshen up. makes a big difference and loks much better.
The water spray pipe is connected to the bumper so when you pull the bumper off you will need to disconnect the hose. There should be a join along the bumper (oil cooler side i think) where you can split the hose easily.