Thread: What products do you use to clean your D3

LOL RMP, I won't do that to you. Images of Alex being conditioned (A Clockwork Orange) are coming to mind:



Well boys, as of Sunday, I have a new favourite shop! Goodbye Mecca Cosmetica. Goodbye to the cosmetics counters of David Jones. On Sunday, I discovered...Super Cheap Auto! Yes, my friends, and Dave the sales assistant is my new friend.

There were shelves and shelves of cleaning equipment (not to mention everything else)! I went in, I shopped and I conquered. Spent almost $100 and walked out with kit to be proud of.

Then I gave my girl a makeover.

She got vacuumed in every nook and cranny and might I say I "lingered"? Would that be rude? We do have the 7 seats up occasionally, but when we do it, we are generally in a rush - boys to soccer, grandparents on an outing, you know the drill. This time I put up every seat and I, well, "lingered". What a marvel of engineering the D3 is!

Seriously, when I think of England, I usually think of the Royals and I cringe. (I can say that, I'm born there .) But now, I think of Land Rover. And I don't care that they didn't do well in the JD Power reliability tests. I just LOVE the way those seats fold into each other so seamlessly and easily. It defies the fact that the car is so heavy and strong. All seem right with the world when everything is so...neat!

Anyway, I digress. I vacuumed, had her washed, then brought her home and polished, blackened, cleaned the rims, shined the tyres. It took virtually the whole day and my arm was so tired last night I couldn't sleep. And the tips of my fingers so sore and waxy I couldn't even type (well, I waxed our other car too, not wanting her to feel left out).

But...what a difference! I used Meguiar's Deep Crystal Wet Look Cleaner Wax on her body and Mothers Naturally Black on the trims. Oh. My. God. Mother's Milk, more like it! Her black plastic trims were fading - particularly around the wheels, under the doors and on top of the mirrors. Massaging in some of this stuff has brought them back to a nice, strong black. I thought it might have faded overnight, but no, still there this morning!

Sorry, I know I'm raving, but she is just so GLORIOUS! I keep walking out into the garage and stroking her. Is this car porn? What has gotten into me?? Maybe I need a dose of what Alex had, LOL.

Anyway, thank you for all your helpful suggestions. I would have been completely overwhelmed in that shop had I not gone in with them. And on a final note, I think Freddie said it better than I can:

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdDNFJpil50&feature=related"]YouTube- Queen - I'm In Love With My Car[/nomedia]

Originally Posted by FifiLámour

LOL RMP, I won't do that to you. Images of Alex being conditioned (A Clockwork Orange) are coming to mind:



Well boys, as of Sunday, I have a new favourite shop! Goodbye Mecca Cosmetica. Goodbye to the cosmetics counters of David Jones. On Sunday, I discovered...Super Cheap Auto! Yes, my friends, and Dave the sales assistant is my new friend.

There were shelves and shelves of cleaning equipment (not to mention everything else)! I went in, I shopped and I conquered. Spent almost $100 and walked out with kit to be proud of.

Then I gave my girl a makeover.

She got vacuumed in every nook and cranny and might I say I "lingered"? Would that be rude? We do have the 7 seats up occasionally, but when we do it, we are generally in a rush - boys to soccer, grandparents on an outing, you know the drill. This time I put up every seat and I, well, "lingered". What a marvel of engineering the D3 is!

Seriously, when I think of England, I usually think of the Royals and I cringe. (I can say that, I'm born there .) But now, I think of Land Rover. And I don't care that they didn't do well in the JD Power reliability tests. I just LOVE the way those seats fold into each other so seamlessly and easily. It defies the fact that the car is so heavy and strong. All seem right with the world when everything is so...neat!

Anyway, I digress. I vacuumed, had her washed, then brought her home and polished, blackened, cleaned the rims, shined the tyres. It took virtually the whole day and my arm was so tired last night I couldn't sleep. And the tips of my fingers so sore and waxy I couldn't even type (well, I waxed our other car too, not wanting her to feel left out).

But...what a difference! I used Meguiar's Deep Crystal Wet Look Cleaner Wax on her body and Mothers Naturally Black on the trims. Oh. My. God. Mother's Milk, more like it! Her black plastic trims were fading - particularly around the wheels, under the doors and on top of the mirrors. Massaging in some of this stuff has brought them back to a nice, strong black. I thought it might have faded overnight, but no, still there this morning!

Sorry, I know I'm raving, but she is just so GLORIOUS! I keep walking out into the garage and stroking her. Is this car porn? What has gotten into me?? Maybe I need a dose of what Alex had, LOL.

Anyway, thank you for all your helpful suggestions. I would have been completely overwhelmed in that shop had I not gone in with them. And on a final note, I think Freddie said it better than I can:

YouTube- Queen - I'm In Love With My Car

rmp, this has gotta go into the stories thread..... just the kinda thing I had in mind when I started the whole why I love my D3 thing!

A question, I am one of those that likes to leave my D3 dirty, spends most of it's life on a construction site, so cleaning is a bit pointless anyway, and it adds a bit of street cred……

Anyway, due to time pressures recently I made a huge mistake, and on a recent trip to Sydney I got the car storage place, where I park the car for such trips, to wash Audrey for me. Now the thoughts of someone else’s hands all over my girl are the subject of another thread, but they well and truly messed up her paint work. There were 3 or 4 tar spots that they took it upon themselves to rub out and scratched the paintwork something terrible. So, what products are there out there that I can use to restore Audrey’s show room shine, for the times that she is actually clean?

Originally Posted by DiscoSaffa

There were 3 or 4 tar spots that they took it upon themselves to rub out and scratched the paintwork something terrible. So, what products are there out there that I can use to restore Audrey’s show room shine, for the times that she is actually clean?

OMG! I can't believe they would keep scrubbing when they saw what damage they were doing. Let alone doing 3 more!!! That is disgusting! Poor Audrey, and I bet you didn't notice until you got home and had a good look by which time it was too late to say anything.

By the way, how did she come to have the name Audrey?

Originally Posted by DiscoSaffa

rmp, this has gotta go into the stories thread..... just the kinda thing I had in mind when I started the whole why I love my D3 thing!

A question, I am one of those that likes to leave my D3 dirty, spends most of it's life on a construction site, so cleaning is a bit pointless anyway, and it adds a bit of street cred……

Anyway, due to time pressures recently I made a huge mistake, and on a recent trip to Sydney I got the car storage place, where I park the car for such trips, to wash Audrey for me. Now the thoughts of someone else’s hands all over my girl are the subject of another thread, but they well and truly messed up her paint work. There were 3 or 4 tar spots that they took it upon themselves to rub out and scratched the paintwork something terrible. So, what products are there out there that I can use to restore Audrey’s show room shine, for the times that she is actually clean?

If it is 'scratched' eg you run the back of a fingernail over it and you can feel a cut in the paint then it will need a repaint

If your fingernail does not 'drop' into a cut and the 'scratches' are like 'bush rash' then they are in the upper surface of the paint and they should come out.

If the second is the case then send me a PM.

Originally Posted by DiscoSaffa

rmp, this has gotta go into the stories thread.....

As Chief Storyteller your wish is my command...'tis done.

By the way everyone, don't post in the Stories Thread unless it IS A STORY. Comment on the stories in the main area. I just deleted three random comments from Stories.

thanks

Now, FFL.

Pictures Are Required.

Stories thread? Off to find it. Perhaps I should have edited the typo's.

Pictures? Damn! I should have done befores and afters. I was so hyped, it didn't even occur to me. I tell you, that Mothers Naturally Black is incredible. And it's not even greasy!

I also used "Mother's" products before and can recommend them. 20% off at SuperCheap Auto in the latest catalogue. Also, if you join up on their website you get some type of voucher for a discount in the first month.

Originally Posted by FifiLámour

OMG! I can't believe they would keep scrubbing when they saw what damage they were doing. Let alone doing 3 more!!! That is disgusting! Poor Audrey, and I bet you didn't notice until you got home and had a good look by which time it was too late to say anything.

My thoughts exactly! and that is exactly was happened, picked up the car late at night and only noticed the following day when I woke Audrey up and took her out into the sunlight…… was sooooooo peeved!

Originally Posted by FifiLámour

By the way, how did she come to have the name Audrey?

All my cars have had names, something I take a lot of flak for….. I thought everybody did it…… but anyway, my first Land Rover was a ’73 RRC, it was definatley a he, and he ended up as Humphry, just seemed to fit, what with him being an old English Gentleman and all. My second Land Rover was a little Freelander and she was Lucille the Land Rover, or Lucy for short. My D2 was Lucy 2 or Too as the case may be…… I must have been uninspired on the day she was named. As for Audrey, Safari Barbie named her. We struggled with a name for her, and one day Audrey just popped out, I figured she is big, she is English (the car, not Barbie) and Audrey fits……. So it has stuck. My toddler calls both our cars by their names, and half way across a parking lot she will yell “there’s Audrey!” and then in a very knowledgeable tone she will explain to us uneducated adults, “Audrey is a Land Rover” makes me proud that little girl…… anyway that was a very long answer to a short question……

Originally Posted by rmp

As Chief Storyteller your wish is my command...'tis done.

Thanks rmp!

Originally Posted by FifiLámour

Stories thread? Off to find it. Perhaps I should have edited the typo's.

Tis a sticky thread, and not a bad read if you can get past the ramblings of a sometime bored South African.....