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We were alerted to a car that was iconic as the fleet car of choice in the long country and city roads of Australia. In their day you would be hard pressed not to see at least 1 of these Australian built Mitsubishi Magna’s on any drive anywhere.

Here we have a wagon version of this car. Super versatile with being a very reliable 3.5ltr v6 and fold down flat rear seat made it excellent for travelling sales people to securely transport their samples to show clients.

The cars were good for well over 500,000kms of hammering without more than the normal service items which in this case were very cheap in comparison to other vehicles.

Enough of the preamble and into what we found.

Lost, but still very worthy — Been a long time since these were cleaned

We found an excellent low milage example of one of these 2001 Australian produced Mitsubishi Magna that had been sitting in the spot we found it for 8 years and was owned by an elderly couple of almost all it’s life. Before coming to rest here the car was a daily commuter and didn’t leave the city of 50,000 population so it idled along.

The DIY work begins

First thing to do was check the oil and coolant levels and put in a fresh battery to see if it would start. It had a full tank of fuel which would be stale but enough to start the engine.

A few cranks to get the oil pressure up and then we went at a proper start which it did just like it was driven the day before.

4 washes later we had something we could move to the DIY driveway and get on with seeing if we could get the showroom new look using our NDG products.

https://ndgproducts.com/lost-but-still-very-worthy/ — 4 Mega Gloss Washes later

6 hours were spent on the car to detail it inside and out but it turned out looking brand new. A sensational result!!

The Before & After Images

The car will head to it’s new owner soon enough and will be a good solid workhorse.

We are tempted to keep this one as a low cost reliable, useful car.

With all our products we like to test them in the most extreme environments and there is no better place than Outback Australia.

The outback is an area that is known for a very sparse population, including animals that extends for thousands of Kms and miles in all directions.

Basically you are on your own.

Our testing was our Hyperseal on a 1014 Toyota Prado that was one of 6 other cars that ventured into the outback.

The timing was not great as the outback had seen a lot of rain which turns a normally ultra dry desert into a series of many thousands of delta type water canals and mud, mud that seems to not end.

This was a great proving ground for our testing which in this car was our hyperseal polish and 2 weeks of punishment.

The test was a success.

After 2 weeks in test the Prado was basically clean. The most noticable part was the windows that were not treated and had turned the typical red dust coating that is so typical of any trip outback.

The owner said” that the mid just beaded up the surface and when it rained just dropped off” and ” none of the others knew of any test coating on his car but all asked why his car seemed so clean” and that ” after driving through the salt bush dunes and being the lead car the typical pinstripes were not there but were on all the other cars, amazing”