Range rover detail!

[jimbo06]

Well me and our kid got another car booked in for a full exterior detail and interior valet...a black range rover.

We popped up a few nights ago to have a quick look over it and see how the land lied, first thoughts were it wasnt too bad (however the light wasnt great, and the car was wet), but upon inspection when we got there today it was ALOT worse than we first thought.

The owner lives off an farm track so the car goes up a muddy, gravel path with bushes and branches hanging over parts of the drive leading to the house (so as he says, "when the wife has been driving it up there its got it in a bit of a state"), the car is also used to take two dogs around so the interior was very dirty...and 'hairy' lol.

At the minute its hard for us to show conditions of paint before we start as we dont have a light gun, but areas were badly swirled, with tree sap and bird crap etched onto the paint, lots of marring and a few rds (random deep scratches) here and there that we managed to remove, reduce and/or correct.

heres some pics of it before:

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130124.jpg

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130125.jpg

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http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130122.jpg

Notice the swirling in the next pic

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130131.jpg

The process & products used:

~ Pre wash foamed using Chemical guys maxi suds (A healthy coating was needed!)
~ Rinsed
~ Wheels sprayed with bilberry wheel cleaner and the intrecate parts cleaned with a valet pro wheel brush, the faces of the spokes cleaned with a sponge
~ Washed with dodo juice born to be mild shampoo and 2 x mitts & buckets with grit guards
~ Rinsed & Dried
~ Full car then clayed with bilt hamber smooth finish clay (we went for a harder grade of clay as we knew there was alot of contaminates to lift off) clay after bonnet:

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130135.jpg

Clay after wings:

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130136.jpg

~ Rinsed & Dried
~ Taped up with 3m tape
~ Areas fully covered with the meguairs g220 polisher with 3m compound & compound pad, the smalled areas covered with a flexi pad spot pad with 3m compound, and the odd tiny area which could not be reached with the machine polisher was hit with AG SRP.
~ Once those stages had all been taken off it was then covered with the 3m ultra polish and polishing pad
~ Once taken off the car was then given a full coat of valet pro artimus wax (we went for this as its easy to work with, long lasting, and gives off very good results in terms of the finish, as good as some waxes costing more than twice the price!)
~ Again once taken off another full coat was put on.
~ All lights cleaned & polished
~ The rims where then treated to a generous coat of Poor boys wheel sealant, and the tires dressed with meguairs endurance gel
~ All glass (inside and out) was taken care of with AG fast glass
~ Interior was fully hoovered, mats taken out and brushed then hoovered.
~ Dash, door cards and all other plastics treated with poorboys natural look dressing
~ All door shuts washed & polished with AG SRP

Pics of it after:

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130143.jpg

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http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130148.jpg

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http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130150.jpg

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130160.jpg

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http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130168.jpg

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130156.jpg

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130154.jpg

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130151.jpg

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http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u290/james06_album/2009_04130151.jpg

We were very very pleased with the finished outcome as was the owner.

Black cars are WIN after a detail and some of the reflections at times in the sun were amazing!

Comments welcome

[J222JRA]

Looks good Jimbo, i hate 4x4s lol

[jimbo06]

+ 1 haha

it was painstaking especially the roof! Im not sure if id fancy doing another 4x4 like mate

[J222JRA]

nah mate i never do 4x4's takes too much time and im too short hahaha

[mtpagey]

did you need ladders to clean the roof properly? lol

very good results though :clapping: glad to have a second pair of hands working as well?

[jimbo06]

did you need ladders to clean the roof properly? lol

very good results though :clapping: glad to have a second pair of hands working as well?

or ofcourse mate, the roof is high as fook so working on the ladders was a bit dodgey lol. The second pair of hands was very badly needed, it wouldnt have got finished otherwise haha

[mtpagey]

did wonder :oops:

[Misky]

Looks fresh mate! how much you charge them for something that size?

[NICK2506]

how do you get inside the wheel arches so dark?

[ajs]

Looks mint had you been in scotland i would have got you to do the shogun its not been seen to in about a year.

[Predator_R32]

Good stuff jimbo, i think you should go for a rotary after a few more details, makes cutting etc much eaiser, i bought a silverline for about 45 quid and the backing plate was a tenner, what a difference it makes, i still like using the pc on plastics though

Anyway great job and you were missed last night lol

[jimbo06]

cheers pred! aye ano i reckon i'll start thinking about a rotary after ive done a few more think i'd still be a bit scared to use one properly at the min though lol.

Was gutted i missed sunday tbh, was it any good dude?

[Matt67]

Fair play for stepping upto the task.. one thing doing a detail on a hatchback, but look at the size of that thing!

Really good job fella, well done.

[Predator_R32]

:panic:cheers pred! aye ano i reckon i'll start thinking about a rotary after ive done a few more think i'd still be a bit scared to use one properly at the min though lol.

Was gutted i missed sunday tbh, was it any good dude?

without you jimbo it wasnt the same lol

rotary does seem scary but i only work in polish on speed one and cut with speed 3 maybe 3 and a half i dont go past that, doesnt take long to cut \nd tbh seems to do the job much quicker on metal panels

[bry1]

i wish my paint work was like that

[7unner172]

much do you do details for mate?pm me prices

[jimbo06]

Fair play for stepping upto the task.. one thing doing a detail on a hatchback, but look at the size of that thing!

Really good job fella, well done.

Cheers mate!

:panic:

without you jimbo it wasnt the same lol

rotary does seem scary but i only work in polish on speed one and cut with speed 3 maybe 3 and a half i dont go past that, doesnt take long to cut \nd tbh seems to do the job much quicker on metal panels

A think i'll ask dave on the open day if i can have a go with a rotary like, and i'l come out to play on sunday lol

[fastroadkid69]

good job, should of cleaned the foot pedals aswell, then treated them after.

[ShowroomValet]

Very nice job mate, looks great, I have to book out two full days when I do 4x4's, I know the pain you went through :p

Great job.

[saxo_ron]

been a while since ive seen a good detail thread on here.

Good work jimbo

[Liam_]

Top job jimbo - worst colour of all for showing defects too, so kudos for the hard work!

[Ben]

Excellent work buddy, looks smashing that.

[MrHouston]

Good work mate. I'll be doing a full detail thread in a couple weeks on my new spaxo

[jimbo06]

Thanks for all the comments lads :y:

[chris205]

nice work mate, only just got chance to have a look see