New car - Dirty engine bay?

[rdon68]

Hi all, new forum member and first time EV car owner here.
Just collected my new mg5 trophy from dealers this week and having a poke around was surprised to see how dirty/dusty the engine bay was when I removed the cover.
Looked like the car had been driven over from china!
Any one else come across this?

 

[Verdigris]

Someone else mentioned that. I expect it's just been sitting at Portbury docks for a year or so.

 

[Jomarkh]

Hi all, new forum member and first time EV car owner here.
Just collected my new mg5 trophy from dealers this week and having a poke around was surprised to see how dirty/dusty the engine bay was when I removed the cover.
Looked like the car had been driven over from china!
Any one else come across this?

Welcome to the forum,
You could ask the dealer to steam clean it

 

[Alb]

This is what mine looked like 2 months after getting the car:

 

[rdon68]

A bit of elbow grease and that’s how clean I’m planning on mine looking.
I’m a bit ocd with things like that.?

 

[Nobel]

I received my MG5 Trophy in August and you'd swear it had been to the Sahara. I've never had a brand new car that's looked so grubby, even the window seals looked mouldy.

 

[rdon68]

Yeah, that’s just what mine was like. Took me all afternoon to get it looking reasonably presentable.

 

[ALANB]

The same, but a really fine dust...my bet this has happened in China in one of their incredible dust storms.

 

[smokingblack]

Mine wasn’t like that it was spotless . Just as well I would have gone nuts . Went over it with a fine tooth comb before I drove off in it .

 

[James83]

Had my 2 year old second hand's cover off to scope out frunking options and was suprised how dusty it was, spiders, few leaves...
Quiet a contrast from the outside paintwork.
(Miles better than my old ICE after Halfords left oiler filler cap off though ?‍)