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No, not my car, but easily the most expensive car I have detailed to date.
This is a previous generation Ranger Rover Autobiography, the "real" Ranger Rover and not the "Sport". I have to say, being a Brit-Car man, I love these Range Rover's. I wouldn't buy one myself, but I adore the restrained styling and the complete focus on luxury and comfort.
The owner has had a string of previous model Range Rover's, all have been complete lemons!
I applaud him for his patience, because when they are running, there is nothing quite like a Ranger Rover and their ability to just waft across any surface. Fitted with the 4.4 SDV8 diesel, this is the owner's daily driver and has over 130,000 km / 80,000 miles on the clock. I'm hoping one day I get my hands on his Bently Continental GT!
As a daily driver and being winter, it was in a state.
The car was dropped off last night so I could get started on it nice and early. That early start was going to be needed!
I knew these wheels were going to be feral, so I went straight to Sonax Full Effect.............
While the wheel face was fine, I dare say the barrels have never been cleaned.
Even with a heavy hitting wheel cleaner, and combined with some alkaline Shine Supply Wise Guy which I also used to clean the tyres, the barrels needed to be cleaned THREE times. Even then, I wasn't completely happy. Sometimes you just have to know when to stop. I think I would have needed some Meguiar's Wheel Brightener to fully sort these, but that stuff frightens me.
While this car 1000% needs to be polished, that's not something I was wanting to tackle at this point, it needed too much work than I had time for today. Even so, I wanted to do the full decontamination wash to at least have clean paint.
First step, I applied Gyeon Iron to the whole car from dry. This product has absolutely no attempt at disguising the horrible scent. Same for Sonax Full Effect above.
After soaking for 5 minutes, I then foamed Carpro Lift over the top of the iron remover. The concept here being that the iron remover will continue to react and then slowly start to run with the soap, as pictured below.
While that was soaking, I hit the engine bay with the remaining Lift, agitated with brushes, rinsed and then applied some Hyper Dressing. This was not planned, but I couldn't resist.
After another rinse down, I then foamed with Carpro Descale for the contact wash. The two previous steps worked so well that I could have probably gone with a pH balanced soap, but again, I couldn't resist. At this point I want to say that despite being a huge vehicle, the big flat panels made it so easy to wash.
After another rinse, I emptied my wash bucket and refilled with more Descale mixture and a towel. I then blasted the door jambs with the pressure washer and took a towel and went to it cleaning all the accumulated dust and grime. I will say I absolutely hate cleaning door jambs in this state, and the reason why I ALWAYS take the extra few minutes to wipe them down after each wash.
After finishing the door jambs, I hit the whole car with Carpro Hydr02 Lite, wheels included. I have been using the pre-mixed version of Hydr02 for paint because it seems to be less susceptible to streaking than the diluted concentrate.
I then dried with the Big Boi and went ahead applying KCx S0.02 to the paint and glass, picking up any remaining water in the process. I have been enjoying this product lately, it's so simple to use and creates some excellent gloss. It delivered what I was aiming for on this car, producing so much gloss and slickness that it distracts from the horribly swirled finish underneath.
It was then back to those bloody door jambs, using ONR and a towel to finish them off.
For the interior, I started with the vacuum in tandem with brushes and compressed air. I'll also point out that this is the easiest carpet I have ever dealt with, everything just lifted out without repeated passes, agitation or assistance from the compressed air. I guess you get what you pay for.
Because of the intricate nature of this interior, I found the compressed air helpful at getting dust and debris out of all the crevices and air vents, with vacuum sucking it up as I went. It also helped drive my cleaning chemical out of those sections too. That chemical was P&S Express, in this case I used it to clean basically everything; the leather, the door trims, dashboard, pedals ect.
With the interior "clean", I then followed with a wipe down using P&S Swift, which leaves behind a very subtle/barely there dressing. Leather was dressed with NV Nourish, again very subtle. FYI, even the headlining is leather on this car, a very nice touch and surely more durable than the crappy fabric almost all cars have up there. Glass was cleaned with Invisible Glass, rubber mats dressed with KCx GUF, carpets spritzed with Angelwax Eden. Sorry for the lack of pics cleaning the interior, I was sort head down-bum up at that point.
Returning to the exterior, I dressed the tyres with Carpro Darkside and wiped the wheel faces with Beadmaker.
Finished results....................
I've driven the last three generations of Range Rover now, and all have that cushion-like ride and effortless feel. This version of the 4.4 V8 diesel produces 250 kW/335 hp at 3500 rpm and 740 Nm/545 ft-lb at 1750 rpm, combined with the ZF 8-speed auto, it has no trouble getting the big girl moving. I would love to know what the SV version feels like with the awesome JLR supercharged V8 under the hood.
I wish I had the time to polish this car as well, the swirled-out paint really lets the car down. But I managed to make it look and feel glossy and the owner thought I had polished it anyway.
This is a previous generation Ranger Rover Autobiography, the "real" Ranger Rover and not the "Sport". I have to say, being a Brit-Car man, I love these Range Rover's. I wouldn't buy one myself, but I adore the restrained styling and the complete focus on luxury and comfort.
The owner has had a string of previous model Range Rover's, all have been complete lemons!
I applaud him for his patience, because when they are running, there is nothing quite like a Ranger Rover and their ability to just waft across any surface. Fitted with the 4.4 SDV8 diesel, this is the owner's daily driver and has over 130,000 km / 80,000 miles on the clock. I'm hoping one day I get my hands on his Bently Continental GT! As a daily driver and being winter, it was in a state.
The car was dropped off last night so I could get started on it nice and early. That early start was going to be needed!
I knew these wheels were going to be feral, so I went straight to Sonax Full Effect.............
While the wheel face was fine, I dare say the barrels have never been cleaned.
Even with a heavy hitting wheel cleaner, and combined with some alkaline Shine Supply Wise Guy which I also used to clean the tyres, the barrels needed to be cleaned THREE times. Even then, I wasn't completely happy. Sometimes you just have to know when to stop. I think I would have needed some Meguiar's Wheel Brightener to fully sort these, but that stuff frightens me.
While this car 1000% needs to be polished, that's not something I was wanting to tackle at this point, it needed too much work than I had time for today. Even so, I wanted to do the full decontamination wash to at least have clean paint.
First step, I applied Gyeon Iron to the whole car from dry. This product has absolutely no attempt at disguising the horrible scent. Same for Sonax Full Effect above.
After soaking for 5 minutes, I then foamed Carpro Lift over the top of the iron remover. The concept here being that the iron remover will continue to react and then slowly start to run with the soap, as pictured below.
While that was soaking, I hit the engine bay with the remaining Lift, agitated with brushes, rinsed and then applied some Hyper Dressing. This was not planned, but I couldn't resist.
After another rinse down, I then foamed with Carpro Descale for the contact wash. The two previous steps worked so well that I could have probably gone with a pH balanced soap, but again, I couldn't resist. At this point I want to say that despite being a huge vehicle, the big flat panels made it so easy to wash.
After another rinse, I emptied my wash bucket and refilled with more Descale mixture and a towel. I then blasted the door jambs with the pressure washer and took a towel and went to it cleaning all the accumulated dust and grime. I will say I absolutely hate cleaning door jambs in this state, and the reason why I ALWAYS take the extra few minutes to wipe them down after each wash.
After finishing the door jambs, I hit the whole car with Carpro Hydr02 Lite, wheels included. I have been using the pre-mixed version of Hydr02 for paint because it seems to be less susceptible to streaking than the diluted concentrate.
I then dried with the Big Boi and went ahead applying KCx S0.02 to the paint and glass, picking up any remaining water in the process. I have been enjoying this product lately, it's so simple to use and creates some excellent gloss. It delivered what I was aiming for on this car, producing so much gloss and slickness that it distracts from the horribly swirled finish underneath.
It was then back to those bloody door jambs, using ONR and a towel to finish them off.
For the interior, I started with the vacuum in tandem with brushes and compressed air. I'll also point out that this is the easiest carpet I have ever dealt with, everything just lifted out without repeated passes, agitation or assistance from the compressed air. I guess you get what you pay for.
Because of the intricate nature of this interior, I found the compressed air helpful at getting dust and debris out of all the crevices and air vents, with vacuum sucking it up as I went. It also helped drive my cleaning chemical out of those sections too. That chemical was P&S Express, in this case I used it to clean basically everything; the leather, the door trims, dashboard, pedals ect.
With the interior "clean", I then followed with a wipe down using P&S Swift, which leaves behind a very subtle/barely there dressing. Leather was dressed with NV Nourish, again very subtle. FYI, even the headlining is leather on this car, a very nice touch and surely more durable than the crappy fabric almost all cars have up there. Glass was cleaned with Invisible Glass, rubber mats dressed with KCx GUF, carpets spritzed with Angelwax Eden. Sorry for the lack of pics cleaning the interior, I was sort head down-bum up at that point.
Returning to the exterior, I dressed the tyres with Carpro Darkside and wiped the wheel faces with Beadmaker.
Finished results....................
I've driven the last three generations of Range Rover now, and all have that cushion-like ride and effortless feel. This version of the 4.4 V8 diesel produces 250 kW/335 hp at 3500 rpm and 740 Nm/545 ft-lb at 1750 rpm, combined with the ZF 8-speed auto, it has no trouble getting the big girl moving. I would love to know what the SV version feels like with the awesome JLR supercharged V8 under the hood.
I wish I had the time to polish this car as well, the swirled-out paint really lets the car down. But I managed to make it look and feel glossy and the owner thought I had polished it anyway.
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, and I recently tried Motorplast on my daily's engine bay. Love Darkside too 
