Land Rover Discovery- Spring Overhaul

[Stuart]

This a car that first worked on last year, and the brief was to further improve the paintwork surface, sort the engine bay and bring the car back up to a decent standard of presentation for the Spring and Summer

In a bid to be open and transparent, I've included a description of the processes I followed (the order may be slightly adhoc) and the products that I used.

Photos before work




A great idea and made me smile!










Exterior
Stages/processes applied
-Rinse with pressure washer
-pre-wash to wheels and lower third of car to break down grime and worst of mud with Autosmart Hazsafe
-rinse with pressure washer
-shampoo with Meguiar's Gold Class through the pressure washer
-rinse with pressure wahser
-de-tar with Autosmart TARDIS
-rinse with pressure washer
-claybar to lower third of car to remove paintwork contaminants with Autosmart Reglaze as lubricant and medium compound clay
-shampoo with Meguiar's Gold Class with a washmitt
-rinse with pressure washer
-polish and seal paint with Autosmart Platinum
-clean glass with Sonax glass cleaner
-clean and treat all exterior trim with Autosmart Finish
-clean alloys with Autosmart Smart wheels
-clean and treat tyres with Meguiar's Endurance Gloss
-clean and treat arch liners and mudflaps with Autosmart Finish
-clean headlights and tail-lights with Meguiar's PlastX
-clean and treat all door shuts, boot shuts, bonnet shuts, fuel flap and door apertures with Autosmart Platinum
-clean and protect engine bay with Autosmart G101 and Autosmart Finish

Interior
-Remove mats and carpets where possible and hoover throughout
-wash and clean mats with Autosmart G101 and Autoglym rubber and tyre dressing
-shampoo carpets with Autosmart Brisk Extra
-clean leather seats with Autosmart G101 and condition leather with Autoglym leather conditioner
-clean and treat all interior plastics and rubbers with Autosmart G101 and Sonax interior trim cleaner
-clean pedals with Autosmart G101, toothbrush and cocktail sticks!

Photos of completed work in the next post

[Stuart]

Supplementary products include Nilfisk pressure washer, Wickes wet-vac, cloths from Meguiar's, i4detailing and Chemical Guys and loads of elbow grease

Big thanks go to the owner of this LR for allowing me to do the follow up work. Having seen this one and APT's fleet that I have already worked on, it is so much easier when you know what you are working with and what products have already been applied.

Cheers guys. I hope this was useful for anyone about to pick up their buckets and shampoo now that the sun is out

[RX7]

I thought Land rovers were supposed to be dirty and the Range rovers were the clean ones ?!!!?

Good work too, have you a new camera mate as the pics look better.

[Stuart]

That's just sunshine Gareth Both me and the camera prefer it

Tell you what, with a Discovery as high on spec as this one, there is no way I would have a Range Rover TDi over this.

[Ben]

That's your best yet fella ..

[Stuart]

Thank you Ben

I do think that both this one and perhaps the 330d of the Hayward's rates as the most pleasing to work on in terms of results, and second time around for each one which helps big time.

I have a rather nice RS Focus to work on Saturday week and that promises to be a bit special once done. Watch this space