Thinking or having all the polished alloy under the bonnet either chrome plated or bright silver crackle same finish as cambelt cover, rocker cover ect.

Whats your thoughts?

 

Black crackle for me like your cam belt cover, looks good.

 

I think it is a good balance as it is but black crackle looks good.

Cossies often look very busy under the bonnet but yours is clean, neat and tidy.

 

Looks fantastic as it is.

 

Not a fan of the all black engine bays thanks for the suggestion.



Its a plain to keep clean as it at the moment chrome plating will making easy but was thinking of silver crackle aswel

 

Looks spot on as it is

 

You have the perfect combination as it is mate, looks nice.

 

Thanks think i'll stick with having them chrome finished

 

Yours looks right mate but for me satin black

 

To me it looks fine as it is but I guess chrome is easier to keep clean than alloy.
Cleaning and polishing alloy with Solvol Autosol to me is no problem and after a while can be almost as shiny as chrome. To keep your engine bay clean would be pretty staightforward for me.

 

i cant be bothered with all that polishing under the bonnet - had loads of ally in my moonstone 3dr and was a constant pain to keep it clean, especially as the car lived outside and as soon as it rained all my hard work went to shit.

All black for me

 

It's hard work to polish it 2 hours and a sore back to go with it.

 

Mick at Spraystation can paint things to look like chrome, it is not 100% polished but I had it done on my rocker cover and it is quite shiny.

 

I've got a place sorted for have the parts plated. There is loads of different types of plating from dull to glass finish.

Brushed alloy plating looks good aswel which everyone I get done it will be a lot easy to clean the alloy.

 

Looks fantastic as it is to me

 

You know you can get black chrome , best of both worlds

 

Is that like the finish you get on alloy wheels? if so not feeling it.

 

Isn't that "shadow chrome"

 

Keeping your car inside a garage is essential really when you have a lot of alloy and chrome engine bay parts ,as outside, condensation will form and affect everything badly.

 

Just spent about 3 hours giving my engine bay a spruce up but I enjoy it.


Not what some people like but it suits me

 

Think its also called black chrome.

That looks like hard work, looks very nice.

 

Shadow, Black, Brown....all looks the same to me lol (that really is just a joke btw)

 

I have had both in the past and crackle was so much easier to look after.

 

very nice engine bay, me personally id go for black crackle think it would really fit in with what you have there.

 

The engine bay has been the only part of my car I've ever enjoyed cleaning for some strange reason!

 

matt black crackle finish would be my preference, the chrome bling looks nice but as said too much cleaning to maintain it.


I used to get people commenting on under the bonnet on my saph "ooh its dirty" etc etc my reply


"leave it out, its bad enough to keep the interior and exterior clean"