in today's video i'm going to be tackling this land rover behind me now you may take a look
at it and say it's got no roof and it's got more rust in the titanic but that's not going to stop
me no i'm going to try and transform this vehicle into something special he says today i have the
impossible task of cleaning this very cool but very old land rover defender aka mandy the landi
and i just wanted to film this one because it's one of those cars that most people may look at and
walk away from and i want you to stick with me on this one till the end because there is a moral to
the story and it may be a real eye-opener for some of you who do this for a living
it's hard to tell where to start in a car like this because you've got so
much loose rust everywhere so i guess the first thing i really want to do
is take care of the inside first and when i say take care of it i just mean give it a light hoover
because there's going to be so much loose rust and metal everywhere now imagine if we washed a car
and we got no roof by the way so all that water is going to get in all that foam's going to get in
it's going to essentially just be a bigger pain in the backside i know it's hard to believe so
the first thing i really have to do is just take care of all these dry bits of
rust and oh my god and hope for the best with that bit of inspirational positivity said it's
time to get cracking on the inside or what's left of it and i started off by removing the one bag of
quavers and face masks and i gave the seats in the floor a quick vacuum with my trusted child's rack
and you could literally feel the rush shooting up through the tube of the vacuum cleaner
so i'm just going to go over it very lightly here and you'll soon see why
another top tip for anybody in a valeting trade make sure you have plenty of spare tools as you
can imagine the impact of a brush especially if you pick up loads of little particles of metal
you use it on this cone and you go straight over to another car imagine the potential damage you
could cause so always make sure you got spare ones for those really nasty jobs like this
one
with mandy delandy slightly vacuumed and looking no different whatsoever
i was ready to tackle the outside starting with the wheels and arches
the mug was incredibly baked on the inside of the arches and as you can see it was a never-ending
process and for arches like this i can imagine a stubby gun being a better alternative
so i've got myself a brand new one and i will be doing a first look video later on in the week and
i will follow it up with a deep review to show you some of the pros and cons of using one of
those over a traditional pressure washer lance i'm having one of those days today i forgot my
tyre and rubber cleaner which is something i probably could have done with today
so i'm making do with a bit of citrus pre-wash
and a bucket of shampoo with my tyre brush i think that's the only way i'm going to really
tackle it so if the wheels don't look perfect well actually having said that i don't think
any of this car is going to look perfect when it's finished but we'll see what happens anyway
for a deep clean on the wheels i used young wheels once again and as you can see in this fast forward
footage right here it was obliterating the dirt and the fallout and that's one of the benefits
of using a two in one wheel cleaner and fallout remover so just remember fallout removers don't
essentially remove all the dirt they just take out all the particles that are embedded in the wheels
the tyres took a few scrubs to get right as i didn't have my trusty tyre cleaner but it
didn't slow me down too much if anything the heat was the biggest issue on this day
after that process i thought i'd just lay a little extra layer of foam on the wheels just because i
purely enjoy using it and the cannon i'm using here is the mtm pf 22 and it's got the karcher
k series adapter so it works perfectly with my k7 and if you haven't seen my latest video where
i review the karcher k7 then make sure you do go check it out after this video has finished i also
put a link in the description below and if you're thinking about getting a new pressure washer
then make sure you subscribe to the channel as i will be featuring a different pressure washer
every single month so next month we've got the new nilfis core 130 coming to the
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just to make sure the last of the dirt had gone i sprayed a little bit more citrus
under the arches and on the tyres just to dwell just to give it a little bit of extra bite
and with that all done i was ready for the big wash there's only two options for this vehicle
option one i can be a complete [ __ ] and tackle it with snow foam even though there's
no roof or option two i can play it safe and be delicate i think you know which one i'm gonna go
for
that's right i'm a complete [ __ ] but that's the beauty of cars like this
you can literally go nuts and if anything i find these ones more fun
for the boot area i didn't hold back if it was dirty it was going to get
the yum foam treatment because snow foaming can become quite addictive
as we know finally in the middle of the summer there's a few things you need to consider
a lot of people say why don't you go for a pop-up marquee and that's all well and good
but when you're a one-man band it's not as straightforward as it seems
firstly you got the weight of the thing and you could put it on wheels to make it easier to pop up
but then you got various surfaces like this one being gravel where wheels simply wouldn't work
and not to mention the space needed in the van to safely store this and then you need to factor in
the time putting it up and down so unless you're going to be doing a full day's work
at one location in the heat it's simply not worth it my best advice is to reschedule for
cooler days or work earlier in the morning or later in the evening but anyway i am featuring
a video with my brand new marquee and it is in the current process of being filmed
so make sure you stay tuned because that video is going to be dropping very soon
don't really know what you're hoping to achieve by even brushing this because the whole thing is
just rusty like bits of the jet wash we're just shredding this vehicle to bits
and yeah people would normally frown upon this because they're like okay if you stay foam it you
shouldn't really brush it unless you've given it a previous snow phone beforehand so it'd be like
snow fan too or you could scratch it but i think you can sort of make an exception with this car
after giving the nooks and crannies a quick flip with a brush i decided to get the foam off
and this was a scorching hot day and a top tip for anybody doing this job
don't wear black jeans mind you in my defense it was raining when i left the house on that morning
so i had no idea the british level was going to turn nice
and with this foam it gave me a great chance to test it with a thicker mix and i got to see
its cleaning power as a standalone cleaner in the worst possible conditions and it absolutely nailed
it and i didn't get any streaks or anything like that and it was just simply brilliant
so
foreign
so
i have to say this was the easiest boot area i've ever cleaned in my life
and i just wish every car was like this in fact cleaning this car was so easy
you actually get to see one of the rarest sights in your life me smiling
after carefully pressure washing the doors because
i couldn't be bothered to brush them i then made my way onto the interior
for the inside i just used yum interior diluted down as i didn't want to waste
a perfectly good product when the car wasn't going to get a hundred percent
in pristine condition so i use one part chemical to four parts water and it did the trick
after that i finished off the last bit of hoovering with the wet vac just to remove
any more drops of water and it amazed me how much little water got into those surrounding areas
the glass had the usual dave special and then on to the tyres where i used
drifter tyre gel from bear carca just to finish it off nicely
as some of you may have noticed i didn't bother shampooing the car
and to see it in the flesh you would see why and this is where it gets interesting because i want
to show you guys the variety of jobs that you can face throughout your career as a car validator
so as some of you know i recently took on a huge farm vehicle and in the past i've worked on planes
buses supercars and actual james bond cars and every single job is different and every customer
is different too so let's take this customer for example he loved this car but he actually
preferred it looking muddy as he knew what it was at the end of the day and it was just a rusty old
land rover but it didn't mean he didn't care about it to the point where it could have been
re-sprayed and there was zero chance you could do anything with the paint anyway it was too far gone
but this is still a real car that costs real money and it's also a car that you
as a car validator can actually make money on so it wasn't even that difficult in reality
so here's the important bit you will get clients who will show you an old battered car and you need
to be honest with them straight away and say look you can't make a miracle but you can clean it in
terms of making it germ free and it's always good to give the chassis a good clean too so don't turn
jobs down just because you don't think they will look amazing afterwards take on the challenge
and grow your network grow your customer base and you'll soon see the rewards for your hard efforts