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Bobupndown

Member Since: 26 Dec 2014
Location: Upside down behind the TV!
Posts: 2816

2014 Freelander 2 SD4 GS Auto Orkney Grey

•Al2 wrote:
I got fed up with back to black, just seem to end up with more of it on my hands and rags!

Oh yes, in other news we’re just spent 6k on bringing ours back from a garage, it passed it’s MOT before we had any work done, still feeling sick about it...

£6k?

Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

25th Jun 2019 6:02 am

Bobupndown

Member Since: 26 Dec 2014
Location: Upside down behind the TV!
Posts: 2816

•Al2 wrote:
I have just bought some of this – Gtechniq C4 Permanent Trim Restorer 15 ml https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008L17JF4/ref...eDbJR0KCT6

I’ll let you know how it goes when I receive it if you like.

Yes like to hear your views on that, should be a virtually permanent repair. Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

25th Jun 2019 6:04 am

JulesK

Member Since: 07 Dec 2014
Location: Ceredigion.
Posts: 1664

2014 Freelander 2 TD4 HSE Auto Firenze Red

There's a review on there that states the plastic peeled off If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

25th Jun 2019 7:00 am

•Al2

Member Since: 24 May 2019
Location: South East
Posts: 29

2009 Freelander 2 TD4 HSE Manual Santorini Black

Bobupndown wrote:
•Al2 wrote:
I got fed up with back to black, just seem to end up with more of it on my hands and rags!

Oh yes, in other news we’re just spent 6k on bringing ours back from a garage, it passed it’s MOT before we had any work done, still feeling sick about it...

£6k?

Yep, £6075 in total, so the car was due in for the major service at 145,000 miles and also had the MOT booked, it passed the MOT with a front indicator failing which was fine, then the 4X4 specialist found that what we thought was the clutch playing up turned out to be the gears including the planetary gears which also meant a new clutch plus the £815 for the major service, new tyres all round and new pads and discs all round, so we’ve literally bought a car… what I can say now is that it’s a lovely car to drive now, at least we have what I feel is now a really solid car!

I’ve been told it looks like it was a company car, high mileage and must have been driven hard for a while.

25th Jun 2019 7:01 pm

•Al2

Member Since: 24 May 2019
Location: South East
Posts: 29

Bobupndown wrote:
•Al2 wrote:
I have just bought some of this – Gtechniq C4 Permanent Trim Restorer 15 ml https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008L17JF4/ref...eDbJR0KCT6

I’ll let you know how it goes when I receive it if you like.

Yes like to hear your views on that, should be a virtually permanent repair.

So today I received the package and had got myself setup previously, you’ll need to clean all the trim with either bug cleaning spray and a soft scrubbing brush or wash the car and use a brush, after it dried I used a rag and some methylated spirits to really clean off all contaminates, a lot off muck came off with a quick wipe. Dabbed the C4 onto their applicators and quickly moved up and down the trim including the roof rack, left it on for 5 minutes and then rubbed off with a clean rag, now I might have fallen for their hi-tech jargon but when I wiped off the excess it really did feel like it bonded with the trim and not like I was trying to carefully keep the back to black from coming off, the result is not a super shiny surface, it just looks like a new piece of plastic trim, very impressed so far from such a small bottle! I’m renewing the roof rack bars tonight.

25th Jun 2019 7:18 pm

•Al2

Member Since: 24 May 2019
Location: South East
Posts: 29

Photos uploaded to my gallery!

25th Jun 2019 7:36 pm

Grue

Member Since: 29 Apr 2018
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 371

2007 Freelander 2 TD4 SE Auto Sumatra Black

Nice.

Washed car on weekend after muck galore. Been about 3 months since Boiled Linseed went on, and it's still.... OK. Black has faded a bit, but still better than it was before application.

Think i'll try the C4 when summer comes around.

3rd Jul 2019 10:22 pm

MotionInc

Member Since: 17 Jun 2019
Location: North America
Posts: 1358

ronp wrote:
Peanut butter.

This works! Just watch out for critters........

3rd Jul 2019 11:07 pm

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