Mum's Freelander gets the treatment!

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benpocock

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This is my Mum's Freelander. 58k on the clock, not had a lot of care shown to it, and regularly gets filled up with bags of compost, plants, bits of tree etc (she's a horticulturalist) so you can imagine what the inside was like.



Anyway, she was away for a couple of days so I told her to leave the car with me and I'd sort it out. The inside was really grubby with ingrained dirt in everything (that I couldn't capture in a photo) and the outside had a decent amount of swirls and scratches etc (no photo of this as I forgot! - D'oh!)



Some befores:



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EXTERIOR:



Wash with Profinish

Wheels with Profinish acid

Door shuts with Castrol Greentec/pressure washer

Clay with #34

SSR2.5/DAS orange

#80/Meg's yellow

RMG/hand

CMW/hand (x2 12 hours apart)

AG ITR, #39 and PB Trim restorer on all external trim

AG Engine and Machine Cleaner and AG Vinyl and Rubber Care in the arches

Wheel Wax

Meg's Hot Shine on the tyres

AG Fast Glass (with clay) to all windows



INTERIOR:



Vacuum

#39/scrubbing brush and #40 on all vinyl, including mats

Meg's APC 10:1/Mer leather care on leather

Headlining and all carpets with NASA (not that NASA!) Foamkleanze

AG Fast Glass

Door shuts with AIO



ENGINE:



AG Engine and Machine Cleaner/pressure washer (set to "low")

No dressing



After shots, in no particular order:



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Ben
 
excellent work ben. Where'd you get the castrol greentec from? May get some for when i heal up properly.



Paul
 
paulhdi said:
excellent work ben. Where'd you get the castrol greentec from? May get some for when i heal up properly.



Paul
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On the shelf in my local Halfords (in the motorbike section). To be honest it's no more effective than AG Engine/Machine or an APC, and now that I've used it all up, I won't bother buying any more.



Ben
 
Looks very nice. I thought the same thing..... Looks like Ford has there hands in that automobile.



There is no way I could operate a stick shift w/ my left hand and drive on the passenger side at the same time. :)
 
General Lee said:
There is no way I could operate a stick shift w/ my left hand and drive on the passenger side at the same time. :)
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'Sfunny, but it would be easier than you think. When I've driven abroad in a LHD vehicle on the right-hand side of the road it seems perfectly natural - you're near the centre of the road.



Driving a RHD on the right (or a LHD on the left) would probably seem a bit weird since you'd be next to the kerb (never done it so that's only a guess).
 
It seems every car in Europe has a manual transmission (even some of the luxury cars). Wish it was the same here in the states.
 
Looking good :)



How much work did you do on the roof of that since most people will only be able to see the edges? Do you do it to the same level as the rest of the vehicle, i.e. complete swirl removal?
 
parish said:
How much work did you do on the roof of that since most people will only be able to see the edges? Do you do it to the same level as the rest of the vehicle, i.e. complete swirl removal?
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I did the same process to the roof (i.e. complete swirl removal) as I did to the rest of the car. I learnt this at a young age when I washed my Dad's SUV. I forgot/couldn't reach the roof so I didn't bother - then went upstairs and looked at the car and saw the horror that was the unwashed roof.



It might be a bind to do the roof, but IMO it's well worth it and doesn't actually take that much time when you get on with it.



Ben
 
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