As delivery time fast approaches for the first lucky few (& perhaps also for some of us who can't extract a delivery date!), some - like me - are no doubt think about what, if anything, should be done to best protect our shiny new acquisitions.
I am 'lucky enough' to share my local roads with a variety of tractors, horses, and drivers who seem incapable of staying off the verges. The consequence is that most of the time the colour of my present Freelander is scarcely discernable from the surrounding mud - every bit a Land Rover!
I would like to do what is cost-effective, and reasonable (life is too short to spend it endlessly washing and polishing) to safeguard the paintwork of my new DS. The cost of professional 'detailing' seems hard to justify and previous investment in paintwork treatment offered with early Land Rovers has shown little tangible benefit. So what to do?
What approach are others intending? Have you had success with particular products - if so which? Is it safe/advisable to apply wax or other surface coatings when the paintwork is perhaps not yet fully cured? Who should do the job - perhaps the co-driver? - after all someone has to supervise! Or is it best just to leave well alone and merely wash carefully.
Hell - the wait is bad enough but then it'll get dirty!!!
I am 'lucky enough' to share my local roads with a variety of tractors, horses, and drivers who seem incapable of staying off the verges. The consequence is that most of the time the colour of my present Freelander is scarcely discernable from the surrounding mud - every bit a Land Rover!
I would like to do what is cost-effective, and reasonable (life is too short to spend it endlessly washing and polishing) to safeguard the paintwork of my new DS. The cost of professional 'detailing' seems hard to justify and previous investment in paintwork treatment offered with early Land Rovers has shown little tangible benefit. So what to do?
What approach are others intending? Have you had success with particular products - if so which? Is it safe/advisable to apply wax or other surface coatings when the paintwork is perhaps not yet fully cured? Who should do the job - perhaps the co-driver? - after all someone has to supervise! Or is it best just to leave well alone and merely wash carefully.
Hell - the wait is bad enough but then it'll get dirty!!!