Mr Land Rover offered me GARDX paint protection for a snip at £500. I chose an hour or so with a bucket, chammy and some elbow grease and applied 2 coats of Autoglym liquid hardwax......

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Wanna come and do mine to prove yours wasn't a one off???

It might be a new car but cleaning it ain't likely to become a big hobby! Td4 XS manual, Orkney Grey, MY2014

so that a no then?

Well I guess LRs are supposed to be dirty

Just as a bye the bye about keeping car bodywork clean and shiny. Do you often wonder about funeral vehicles and how the always look clean and shiny?

Well So time ago I got into conversation with a professional care body maintenance person and he said they never ever polish those vehicles but wash them down with bucket and sponge, start using polish and to take the fine protective layer of paint off even though you may not see it. Also he said never ever clean over any edges always up to but not over. He was a mechanic for a large London firm of undertakers and that was part of his job ,vehicle presentation.

So make of it what you will but that is what I was told Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

That professional must be dead right.
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its good to have the bare bones of a story.
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. 2010GS Auto ex Celeb, Santorini Black, 2011 facelift , spoiler, spats, mudflaps, LED footwell lamps, Witter detach,
Other cars:-
1958 & 1959 Austin J40 Pedal Cars under restoration (I make many J40 parts)
If you have an Austin J40 or Pathfinder Pedal Car looking for a new home pls PM me.
2009 Meriva

Just washed mine for the first time - you need to be 8 feet tall to clean the roof! Polishing it must require skyhooks. We just traded in out Fiat 500 for a newy, same model. The dealer spent so much time faffing around with a new & apparently unmanageable computer system, they gave us GardeX for free (that & because we hadn't tried haggling the price with them). From a time when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos!

realspeed wrote:

Just as a bye the bye about keeping car bodywork clean and shiny. Do you often wonder about funeral vehicles and how the always look clean and shiny?

Well So time ago I got into conversation with a professional care body maintenance person and he said they never ever polish those vehicles but wash them down with bucket and sponge, start using polish and to take the fine protective layer of paint off even though you may not see it. Also he said never ever clean over any edges always up to but not over. He was a mechanic for a large London firm of undertakers and that was part of his job ,vehicle presentation.

So make of it what you will but that is what I was told

which is why wax is a great way forward....

T Terran



'The' Car For The Modern Day UK Roads ( ie all the pot holes )

'A Freelander that leaks oil is just marking its territory' - Wise words

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