Classic Range Rover Ice Blasting

With each Range Rover Classic needing approximately 100 hours to strip its shell and chassis due to corrosion and dirt before embarking on a restoration or rebuild project, the Kingsley Re-Engineered team has seen a plethora of rusty Range Rovers since it was founded over 20 years ago. Traditional methods of cleaning a shell used to date, such as sand-blasting and chemical stripping, are abrasive and have either been harmful to the environment or harsh on the metalwork, in some cases meaning that the shells post blasting or stripping are too damaged to save.

Therefore, ever the forward thinking specialist, Kingsley have added dry ice blasting to their shell preparation process. Dry-ice blasting is a particle spray procedure that uses CO2 granulate as a spray agent. Unlike most other blasting solutions, which keep their solid state during the entire work process, the frozen CO2 purifies immediately to CO2 gas when it touches the surface, meaning no spray agent residues are left behind. Research shows that up to 70 per cent more panels could be saved using the cryogenic process compared to more abrasive stripping methods.

Basically the key benefits of dry ice cleaning include time-saving, being more environmentally-friendly than other options as well as a gentler process meaning more metalwork can be preserved.

Although this innovative process is mainly to be used on Kingsley Range Rover builds, the service is available for use on other vehicle shells. Contact the office for details.