Looks fab. Love the grey and black.____
Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey
28th May 2016 11:08 am
oor Rab
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I love the look of this car It is looking the danglies with the Wranglers on it.
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28th May 2016 3:36 pm
tayaste
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Fantastic looking car, but, in your first post you mentioned colour coded door handles, what happened ?
28th May 2016 3:44 pm
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I fitted them then took them off in favour of black ones as I'd seen a nice disco in the LR showroom in Cape Town like this that looked awesome!1998 Defender 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF
2016 Discovery 4 HSE
1982 Series 3 2.25 Petrol Hard top- Oscar, as featured in Classic Land Rover Magazine for 7 months
28th May 2016 11:11 pm
Cam-Tech-Craig
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Need to colour code the front bumper now Adam 15.5MY XS in Corris Grey with Black & Almond leather
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29th May 2016 9:31 am
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Craig, who is Will? 1998 Defender 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF
2016 Discovery 4 HSE
1982 Series 3 2.25 Petrol Hard top- Oscar, as featured in Classic Land Rover Magazine for 7 months
29th May 2016 10:02 am
Cam-Tech-Craig
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Ooooops sorry Adam... Its early 15.5MY XS in Corris Grey with Black & Almond leather
29th May 2016 10:09 am
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Had the wheel re-balanced today at my local F1 Autocentre, who have used in the past and they do very high quality work.
The chap who refurbs the alloys built them up but he's rubbish at balancing. He had counter-balanced them too (weights on both the inside edge and outside edge on the rear of the wheel) so at 50mph I was getting wheel wobble. (He even said when I picked them up that they might not be balanced properly but he blamed the slightly aggressive AT pattern of the Duratracs)
On the short drive home I managed to find a spot to get up to 70mph and seems much smoother.
What made me smile was that the F1 Autocentre guy said I might get wheel balance issues due to the wheel spacers - becasue his mate has a "very old Defender with massive mud tyres that he takes off road" on and spacers and he apparently gets bad wheel wobble.
I wanted to list the many reasons why his mate gets this issue, but couldn't be bothered!
Its an old defender - its probably a bit in many ways
it has massive mud tyres on - probably remoulds and probably cheap and likely to balance poorly
someone who has an old beat up Defender probably wont buy highest quality wheels and tyres, especially to go offroad
1998 Defender 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF
2016 Discovery 4 HSE
1982 Series 3 2.25 Petrol Hard top- Oscar, as featured in Classic Land Rover Magazine for 7 months
2nd Jun 2016 2:23 pm
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Well today I managed to find time to do the paintwork on the Discovery. I would guess this is the first time this has been done in its 8 year life.
After washing it (Meguiars Gold class) but before rinsing off I used the G3 clay mitt dousing it in extra soapy suds. The noise as you swipe the mitt and the clay drags is very noticeable, it sounds like it's scraping however that's the noise of the surface contaminants being picked up by the clay. After a number of swipes, the noise disappears and it pulls smoothly, indicating that the clay has done its work. You do the entire car, including glass, like this.
After that I did every panel with tar remover. Some tar spots you can see, others are tiny but it's worth wiping the entire panel. Every panel. I used an old shirt as my cloth, it's soft and works better than a foam pad or towelling. Then I masked up the plastic panels that are next to paint, as the power polisher can leave marks. The power polisher is one I bought moons ago, from the USA. It's a Porter Cable 7424, bought because there was no decent random orbital polisher available then. The downside is that I have to use a US 110V transformer, but it works.
After this comes the machine polisher work. First is the Meguiars compound. This really cleans the paint and removes blemishes, then the Megs Polish which I apply by hand on a foam pad as you have to wipe off with a microfibre cloth before it dries, once all that is done its time for the power polisher and the Megs Ultimate Wax to seal in the lustre achieved with the first two stages. Leave for half an hour and buff off. I use a cotton hand towel and then a microfibre cloth to finish.
Finally I removed all the masking tape and did all the black plastic work and dressed the tyres. The end result looks stunning and I have the peace of mind that that paintwork is completely cleaned and prepared for the winter. The paint is probably better than it has ever been and the visuals are stunning, the pics from on my drive don't do it justice. Stornoway is an excellent paint colour for making it look flawless.
If you've never gone to the effort of doing all this I emplore you to try, it's not hard and you can do it without the machine polisher, all of the materials you can get from Halfords, it's just takes the time, and it took me 7 hours to do the lot. But, the results last properly. As a comparison, I will show you a photo of my Range Rover next to my Dads taken on the same day in the same place, the only exception is that his car never had this level of care and my dads has been washed by the local Albanians with their caustic pre sprays, jet wash and grit filled sponges. I've never put mine through that, or a car wash, only washed at home by me with a lambs wool mitt etc. Both cars are Santorini Black and the same age.
Pics to follow...>1998 Defender 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF
2016 Discovery 4 HSE
1982 Series 3 2.25 Petrol Hard top- Oscar, as featured in Classic Land Rover Magazine for 7 months
3rd Jun 2016 8:26 pm
Pelyma
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And then a dirty spaniel jumps all over it DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
3rd Jun 2016 9:34 pm
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1998 Defender 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF
2016 Discovery 4 HSE
1982 Series 3 2.25 Petrol Hard top- Oscar, as featured in Classic Land Rover Magazine for 7 months
3rd Jun 2016 10:47 pm
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Pelyma wrote:
And then a dirty spaniel jumps all over it
Luckily I don't have spaniels!1998 Defender 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF
2016 Discovery 4 HSE
1982 Series 3 2.25 Petrol Hard top- Oscar, as featured in Classic Land Rover Magazine for 7 months
3rd Jun 2016 10:50 pm
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1998 Defender 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF
2016 Discovery 4 HSE
1982 Series 3 2.25 Petrol Hard top- Oscar, as featured in Classic Land Rover Magazine for 7 months
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Looks fab. Love the grey and black.
in many ways
