Black bumper shine, I just love it!

Hello all!

I did the plastic bits today with a bit of black bumper shine, it made a great difference! (In my opinion at least.. ) Everything was in a grey'ish colour , now they are back to black, sort of speak. A few pictures.:

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It went from grey to black again.








Have a great weekend!

Morten

Good work there, Morton.

They look good.

But aren't they meant to be grey on a pre-facelift Freelander?

Singvogel said:

Good work there, Morton.

They look good.

But aren't they meant to be grey on a pre-facelift Freelander?

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Cheers mate. Really? Where all the mk1's grey? They looked very beat up, sort of speak, wast improvement (again, my personal opinion) to finish them in black.

Morten said:

Cheers mate. Really? Where all the mk1's grey? They looked very beat up, sort of speak, wast improvement (again, my personal opinion) to finish them in black.

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Yes - as far as I know they were all grey LOL

But I agree - it's a big improvement in appearance.

Singvogel said:

Yes - as far as I know they were all grey LOL

But I agree - it's a big improvement in appearance.

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Haha, I just thought they looked a bit, well very, faded..

Thanks for the info mate.

Heat Gun

Freelaner said:

Heat Gun

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I was waiting for you to appear, Freelaner.

The peanut-butter enthusiasts will be along soon too.

Note that I haven't said anything yet about A***G***. LOL.

Wd40 is supposed to be good on bumpers

Poor Boys trim restorer worth every penny, none of the slimy crap of the Auto Gylm and no striping like the cheaper stuff.

The black bumpers and trim were introduced at 2002MY

Hi, even the facelift bumpers tend to fade a bit to a grey colour....i just 're-blacked' mine again this week, try to do it at least once a year & it s great.....use Car Plan Back To Black.....works a treat

Morten said:

Hello all!

I did the plastic bits today with a bit of black bumper shine, it made a great difference! (In my opinion at least.. ) Everything was in a grey'ish colour , now they are back to black, sort of speak. A few pictures.:

50/50:


Before/after:





It went from grey to black again.








Have a great weekend!

Morten

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Looks good. What was the product you used?

Ah well, looks like I was wrong about the changeover point to black then.

If it was in 2002 then I must have just missed it on my 2002.

Presumably the product you used was that bottle of 'Black Wax' in a couple of the pics?

Looks good, I just done mine today....I use Mers stuff, best ive found so far.

Singvogel said:

Ah well, looks like I was wrong about the changeover point to black then.

If it was in 2002 then I must have just missed it on my 2002.

Presumably the product you used was that bottle of 'Black Wax' in a couple of the pics?

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Ganz richtig, as the Germans says. Cheap product from a Swedish/Norwegian chain of stores, £6 a bottle.

It's simply called "bumper shine", it looks a lot like liquid shoe shine to me. It did work though.

Good work on the bumpers - Black shoe wax works really well too

I love those black Cow pushers you've got fitted

I get very jealous of people who can post pictures I can not even change my profile one

I've been have a look at some of my old pics and right enough I think LandRover changed the colour of the bumpers more than just once.

I reckon they started of with a mid-grey colour then changed in 2002 to a dark grey, before finishing up with black ones.

I found a pic of my 2002 TD4 which had dark grey.

Not a brilliant pic for comparing colours, but compare the rear door handle and the wheel cover which are 100% black and you can see the bumpers are lighter.



Edit: Hmm, on 2nd thoughts, now that I've posted it , maybe you cant see much difference at all, but believe me the bumpers are not black.

I'll just leave the pic as it shows my fool-proof burgler alarm. Lets see any thief try putting his arm in through that open window.

Still a relative newbie so sorry if its been done before. My 98 3 door's plastic is definately grey and was looking a bit naff. On another forum the 'peanut butter boys' were in full cry, but one suggested a 1 : 4 mix of raw linseed oil and white spirit. Having both in the shed I gave it try. Yes it really restores the grey, looks good, doesnt streak in the rain and lasts a good while.

mines a very late 52 plate and there defo black