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Superclean

Member Since: 28 Sep 2012
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 133

2007 Range Rover Sport TDV8 HSE Luxury Arctic Frost

Thanks, I definitely think it face lifts it a bit:)

Day 2 photos shall be up in about 30 minutes:) Always clean.

Wed Nov 07 2012 9:29pm

Superclean

Member Since: 28 Sep 2012
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 133

DAY 2

DAY 2

So to start with here is a picture after we de badged the boot and removed the old tape from the number plate:

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As you can imagine silver is the hardest car to photograph swirl marks and rids, so here is a picture of the general condition of the paint close up:

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As you can see its not that bad and mainly made up of rids as oppose to swirl marks. So the first thing to do was remove all the bird lime defects. There were 6 over the car in total and this was removed using the carpro denim orange peel removal pads and megs 105.

The rest of the car is being corrected with megs 105 and a LC CCS orange pad. Here is some various shots of the paint after correction:

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I then stopped the machine polishing for a little while to helping my brother with removing the wheels and painting the hubs and calipers. Once the first wheel was off I went back to the wash bay, game the wheels a chemical bath with iron x, washed them and degreased the tyre with megs APC. They were then brought back inside and dried with the warm air blower. They were then treated for tar, given a thorough IPA wipedown, treated to dodo juice lime prime as a pre wax cleaner and give a coat of swissvax autobahn.

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While the wheel wax cured we prepped the hubs and calipers and primed them:

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After a long debate between me and my brother, we opted for this very random blue/silver grey. This sounds very random, but as you will see looks great against the grey/silver colour coding.

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They were then lacquered, wax residue wiped off the wheel, placed back on the hub and dodo juice tyromania was applied.

So for a comparison this is the passenger front side.

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Tomorrow will bring some more paint correction as well as 2 more hubs, calipers and wheel off protection. Till then!

Cheers

Mike Always clean.

Wed Nov 07 2012 10:13pm

Fatandre

Member Since: 05 Oct 2009
Location: Reykjavík
Posts: 402

2006 Range Rover Sport Supercharged Santorini Black

I somehow like the HST grille more. 91 BMW 850CSI

Thu Nov 08 2012 6:39pm

Superclean

Member Since: 28 Sep 2012
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 133

You can have it for £60.00 Always clean.

Thu Nov 08 2012 6:55pm

Fatandre

Member Since: 05 Oct 2009
Location: Reykjavík
Posts: 402

If the facelift grill fits a prefacelift car, then how about the facelift led lights? Do you have to change the bumpers and so on?
What I am thinking on my RRS is HST front with facelift lights. Is that possible? 91 BMW 850CSI

Thu Nov 08 2012 6:59pm

Superclean

Member Since: 28 Sep 2012
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 133

I have no idea, as im a newbie to the world of the sport. But there's alot of guys who have some great knowledge! Always clean.

Thu Nov 08 2012 9:21pm

Ady 555
Site Moderator

Member Since: 12 Dec 2010
Location: Good old yorkshire
Posts: 8738

2012 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Santorini Black

Fatandre wrote:
If the facelift grill fits a prefacelift car, then how about the facelift led lights? Do you have to change the bumpers and so on?
What I am thinking on my RRS is HST front with facelift lights. Is that possible?

No its not possible without changing the lights wings and front bumper. The facelift grill is not a genuine L/R product, its a replica facelift grill to fit the 05 to 09 model.

Thu Nov 08 2012 9:24pm

Superclean

Member Since: 28 Sep 2012
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 133

DAY 3

DAY 3

Today was more of the same as this is now midway through. So was focussed on more correction, two sets of calipers and hubs and two wheels remove, cleaned and protected as before.

Heres some correction shots:

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Behind the rear number plate was some nasty scratches:

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These had to be flattened and polish so a quite reading to make sure there was enough lacquer and it was time to get it fixed:

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While i was here, I noticed the boot release button had gone completely white/grey. So G-techniq C4 was used to fix the problem, after a thorough ipa wipedown:

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Not to bad for a 2007 rear bumper strip:)

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and finally some swirls I could catch on camera. The rear lights were looking dull and this is why! So these were remove too.

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So boot scratches removed, boot release button restored and swirls removed from the rear lights.

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Some photos of the wheels being decontaminated with iron x.

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Some photo's of the rear wheel back on, protected and hugging the freshley painted rear caliper:)

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Thats all for today, tomorrow will see the completion of the exterior including refining, first coat of wax, rear tail pipes porperly cleaned and protected and the engine bay protected.

These are the wheels that are on the car, but have been painted in a satin finish. Am tempted to pint them like this to go with the silver and matte grey contrast the sport will have. What do you think?

Cheers Mike

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Always clean.

Thu Nov 08 2012 10:58pm

RRSNorway

Member Since: 08 Jan 2012
Location: norway
Posts: 314

2006 Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE Zermatt Silver

could you give us a list of the products you used? RRS 2006 2.7 HSE

Thu Nov 08 2012 11:10pm

Superclean

Member Since: 28 Sep 2012
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 133

RRSNorway wrote:
could you give us a list of the products you used?

This will be the final list:

Paintwork decontamination.

-Dodo juice grudzilla.
-Meguiars APC.
-Elite car care snow foam.
-Swissvax car bath.
-Iron x.
-Meguiars last touch.
-Dodo juice gentle grey.
-IPA.

Paintwork Polishing.

-Meguiars 105.
-Meguiars 205.
-3M Ultrafina se.
-LC CCS orange pad.
-LC wool pad.
-3M Blue refining pad.
-Carpro denim orange peel removal pad.
-IPA.

Exterior plastics.

-G-techniq C4

Inside arches.

Meguiars APC.
Chemical guys bare bones.

Wheel decontamintaion.

-Bilberry wheel cleaner & protection.
-Iron x.
-Tardis.
-IPA.
-Dodo juice lime prime.
-Swissvax autobahn.

Tyre decontamination and protection.

-Meguiars APC.
-Dodo juice tyromania.

Engine bay.

-Meguiars APC.
-Aerospace 303.

Exhaust tips.

-Iron x
-Wire wool.
-Zepplin metal compound.
-Zepplin metail polish.

Glass Exterior.

-Dodo juice gentle grey.
-IPA.
-Dodo juice supernatural car polish.
-G-techniq G1

Paintwork protection.

3 x coats swissvax crystal rock.

Interior Leather.

Swissvax leather cleaner.
Swissvax leather milk.
Elephant fat.

Interior plastics.

-Meguiars APC.
-Swissvax matte dressing.

Dashboard.

-G-techniq matte dashboard.

Interior glass.

Meguiars glass cleaner.

Inside door rubbers.

Swissvax seal feed.

I think thats all that was used on the range rover.

Cheers Mike Always clean.

Thu Nov 08 2012 11:27pm

Beancounter_74

Member Since: 11 Oct 2011
Location: Down here now...
Posts: 5796

Looking very SC. a lovely glossy finish you've achieved there ON THE WAY: BMW F21 M140i
MERCEDES GL350 - Metallic Navy Blue w/Grey interior

GOING: BMW F31 335D MSport+ xDrive Touring
GONE: Land Rover Discovery 4 HSE - Stornaway Grey w/Black Interior (wish we'd kept it )
GONE: BMW F10 520D MSport - Carbon Black
GONE:MY12 RRS SDV6 HSE Sumatra/Ivory/Grand Black Privacy glass

Fri Nov 09 2012 6:56am

Kimmea

Member Since: 10 Jul 2012
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 259

2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Fuji White

Hst grill

If your still selling your grill ill take it for £60.!

Fri Nov 09 2012 6:57am

Ady 555
Site Moderator

Member Since: 12 Dec 2010
Location: Good old yorkshire
Posts: 8738

Mike, didn't you need to use any elbow grease, ive used it in the past and it works great

Cracking results, you know what question is on everyones lips now don't you

Fri Nov 09 2012 7:17am

Superclean

Member Since: 28 Sep 2012
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 133

Cheers guys, yes bud the grille is for sale and yes you can have it for £60.00. Pm me and will give you all the details etc.

Right, let's get this outside finished! Always clean.

Fri Nov 09 2012 8:46am

Bradders

Member Since: 08 Oct 2009
Location: Leeds
Posts: 2515

Superb results. I thought it looked pretty good to start with but it now looks better than most do when new. FF 4.4 V8 Soooo looking forward to this bad boy
Ex 2006 RRS SC - garbage
Ex 2016 135i M Sport - dream car
Ex 2003 RS6 Avant - piece of cr*p
Ex 2014 320d X Drive, M Sport Touring - ok I guess
Ex 2007 RRS TDV8 - bloody loved it
EX 2007 FL2 XS - not so bad

Fri Nov 09 2012 9:09am

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