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- Platypus47
- Member Since: 14 Apr 2017
- Location: SW Victoria
- Posts: 13
Body and upholstery protection.
Does this occur in the U.K. or elsewhere? I'm in Aus🇦🇺
"Congratulations on the order of your new Land Rover Discovery First Edition!
I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Helen Long and I am the Vehicle Care Consultant at Rex Gorell Land Rover. My purpose is to advise you on the best way to protect your new Discovery.
I would be pleased if you would take the time to peruse the information in the attached brochures, as it discusses ways to help you protect your investment and ensure minimal maintenance is required and comes with a National Lifetime Warranty.
Protektiv Complete includes:
The composition of Silica Dioxide (which is liquid glass that cures on the vehicle over 7 days) and Ceramic Compounds (this gives the product durability) creates a smooth as glass, tough as nails surface. This means reduced vehicle maintenance and eliminates the need to ever wax or polish your new Land Rover
The revolutionary high gloss highly reflective glass like coating which was engineered in Germany is applied by hand. This provides a barrier against harmful UV and common environmental hazards such as bird and bat droppings, bug splatter, tree sap and general road grime and also results in abrasion resistant properties
Boeing have Tested, Proven and Certified Protektiv paint surface coating. This means it meets Boeing stringent D6-17487 specifications
Carpet protector provides a resilient, invisible and effective barrier against permanent staining from common food and liquid spills whilst being completely safe for you, your family and the environment
Leather is treated with a concentrated lanolin treatment giving deep down moisturising protection and provides a highly effective barrier against the effects of UV such as discoloration, cracking and fading along with stain resistance. It also means you never need to use leather cleaners or conditioners. Just wipe with a damp cloth.
Protektiv Maintenance Kit includes all your requirements for the complete care of your new vehicle
Protektiv comes with National Lifetime Warranty for $1649 Including GST and all Government Duties
Or Treatments available individually
Protektiv Surface Coating+Maintenance Kit $1249 All with National Lifetime Warranty
Full Interior Protektiv only $1090
Please let me know if you have any further questions. I would love to help you with the protection and maintenance of your new Land Rover."
That's just under £1000
I thought this kind of thing had died out in the eighties. I've bought 3 previous vehicles from this dealership and have never been offered this before here.
It has lowered my opinion of them that they should feel the need to pad out their profits with this stuff.
What are your opinions, comment etc? -
- ashields
- Member Since: 25 Feb 2017
- Location: nottinghamshire
- Posts: 46
In the UK it's normal to be offered a paint and upholstery protection product. My dealer offered Autoglym LifeShine at £350 as far as I can remember.
They are usually over priced for the product you get but I always take them as it's the easiest way to get the stuff applied on a perfectly clean car. The prospect of getting the car clean enough, and then dry enough to then apply polish and sealant etc just seems like a lot of time I could be doing something else.
I'm guessing this is just a more expensive version of the same, can't imagine it being 3 times better though.
I was also offered smart repair insurance for the first time on this car. £500 + £250 for alloy wheel insurance. I decided not to bother as in the last three years I've spent less than £200 with the local company I normally use for these sorts of repairs, and I've been running three cars. -
- zig
- Member Since: 29 Sep 2016
- Location: Edinburgh
- Posts: 16
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On the vehicle order form for a new Discovery 5 against Retailer Options is Autoglym / Lifeshine Gen5 at a cost £549 (including VAT).
It seems for this particular Land Rover main dealer the default situation is for it to be included in the Retailer Options, but give the customers the option of removing it if they do not want it (another dealer I got a quote from did not include it on the order form).
I understand how upholstery protection for a vehicle with fabric seats would work, but for leather seats how does it work, is it more than just a bag containing items to wipe up and clean if something is spilt on the seats?
So have others found Autoglym / Lifeshine Gen5 is worth having done to a Discovery 5 and is the cost of £549 reasonable? -
- 747_JK
- Member Since: 26 Jun 2018
- Location: England
- Posts: 413
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I have had the Autoglym Lifeshine or Williams Ceramic on my last six cars - and genuinely find it keeps the paintwork in better condition than on previous cars without it. I also find wheels are far easier to clean than before I used these treatments, when you'd be scrubbing alloys with a toothbrush to get into some corners, whereas the dirty just wipes off once they are coated.
Similarly, with young kids for the last 10-11 years, I've had the confidence in knowing the interior will clean up a treat despite anything they might spill. Again, I don't have the comparison in these same vehicles and with the same materials without adding the protection, but I like to keep my car looking showroom condition.
Every time I've traded in at 3-5 years, the dealer has always remarked what immaculate condition the vehicle is in. But I always barter the dealer cost down a little, and on one occasion when they wouldn't budget, I had it applied on day two of ownership by an independant valeting company who came out and did it on my driveway.
MY23.5 D5 3.0 MHEV Metropolitan Edition – Santorini Black – Ebony Windsor Leather – 21” Style 5025 gloss black wheels – 21” full size spare tyre – Black roof rails – Black side mouldings - Williams Ceramic Coat. [Gone: D5 HSE @ 50,795miles: (now LH68 BYW)]
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