Is it just me, or is a statistically significant portion of the population totally clueless when it comes to taking care of their vehicles? Let’s look at two recent examples:

I’m at the quarter car wash using the power wash rinse cycle (no soap) to blast the larger piles of salt and snards off of my truck so I can drive home and use the 3-bucket method to get the truck clean. When I first pulled in, there was a guy in the bay next to me. He’d apparently finished dead last in the Baja 1000, then gone hunting in a swamp. He was using the foaming brush to chisel the larger clumps of mud (and lord knows what else) off of his truck – including the under side. After he leaves, a guy pulls in with what appeared to be a brand new midnight black Lexus. What does this guy do? He pulls out the foaming brush and starts “washing” his car without putting any money in. Only after he’s applied a nice layer of mud (and presumably scratches) does he put the minimum amount in and rinse the mess off. Words fail me.

Then there was this little incident when I was at the mall last week during a storm where we were getting rain, snow, sleet and freezing rain in a full sampler pack. When I got back to my truck, I had to scrape the windows to get the ice off. The young lady next to me was doing the same thing to her BMW. As I get in my truck to leave, I notice that she’s still scraping – her hood!

So here’s my question. Am I out of my mind to feel certain areas of my body pucker up when I see things like this? Happy Holidays!

 

Not at all... was it the big westside mall near you or the eastside mall near me??? Well it really does not matter because either place has a ton of people that have more money than brains. I have seen it before and will see it again and everytime I just want to get out of my truck and introduce them to the back side of my hand.

P.S. I just finished de-snarding my truck at the local wand wash.

 

Lol, the guy across the street from me has a Toyota Camery about 2 years old starts breaking the ice off his windshield with a claw hammer (can you guess what happen). Learning his lesson the following year the same senerio he decides to pour boiling water on his windshield. (can you guess what happen) Im thinking of opening a glass repair shop

Notice the camery behind my cousins Lightninglol

 

It's not just you, most are clueless. What really gets me is going to a car show and seeing people who spend thousands of dollars modifying their cars and the paint is swirled to high heaven. For a couple hundred bucks they could take care of the paint too.

Tic

 

I just shake my head and walk away......

 

today my roomate told me i was the slowest MF at washing a car.

I was only about 2.5 hours in, and was just starting my first coat of polish

but you can easily see the good results i got from my time spent

 

It's not just you..

Pat, the rig looks nice. Good photo.

 

I hand them my card and ask them if they want to win the award for Best Paint at the next show ..

 

Thanks guys, I was starting to worry. On a related note, one of my friends told me he saw a guy doing the exact same thing with an ice scraper. When he politely asked if the guy knew how much damage he might be causing, the gentleman replied that, "I've got that new wax that Billy Mays sells on TV on here. Nothing can hurt it." I give up.

Happy holidays everyone! I hope Billy Mays gets stuck in my chimney.

 

As someone else already said, alot of people have more money than brains.

- NCSU

 

Those are the same Nebishes that are the first to run to the Dealer's Bodyshop and demand to have the Scratches and Swirls that "wernt there before" fixed under Factory Warranty. They never accept resposibility for their stupidity and always want to blame it on "a defect in Material or Workmanship". Glad I'm retired from the Bodyshop and dont have to listen to that BS anymore..

 

When I went to pick-up my new Mustang last week, my salesman simply could not understand why I did not want the dealership to detail my car. As we were standing there filling the gas tank from the dealer's pump, and he once again insisted on knowing why I did not want their detail service.

I glanced over into their detailing bay and saw a man furiously rubbing an extension handle scrub brush over the roof of a new black F-150 Super Crew and pointed to this scene saying, "That is why I don't want you to detail my car!"

I still don't think the salesman understands........

 

That story cracks me up. I can only imagine that guys face when his windshield cracked the 2nd time. Good stuff!

 

It's not just the introduction of the pucker factor that's a problem. I sometimes come close to losing control of bodily functions when I see some of the insane stuff people do to their paint.

I had one customer who owned a huge black Chevy truck of some sort, complete with a Wild Turkey Federation customization to the tune of $8,000. Banks power package, camo dash and trim kit, embroidered upholstery, lift kit, custom wheels and tires, etc. He brushed some hedges along one side of the truck. Nothing serious. Easily polished out. But what does he do? He goes crazy with some steel wool and Turtle Wax Compounding Paste. You know, the stuff that'll strip the varnish off a foot locker?

He asked me a standard question that I'm sure many of you will recognize.

"Can you fix this?" Of course my thought was, also recognizable, "You dumbass. Why did you do this?"

He was crying until I delivered the truck back looking fantastic. It's another example of folks who have more money than sense.

...........and as for those brushes hanging up in the car washes, I'm so tempted to attach placards to them reading, "Call me first".

.........but I'm sure I'd be followed by a body shop guy who'd remove my placards and replace them with some that state, "Please use this regularly and call me later."

 

Yep, they're clueless. Yesterday I was washing my F-250 using the two bucket method. Dad wanted to wash his Dakota, so came out and was looking for a bucket. He asks why I have both buckets. I say that I was rinsing out my mits in one of the buckets cause the truck is so dirty. I was about done with the truck (1 panel left to go), so I said he could use my rinse bucket. So what does he do? Squeezes some dish soap into the bucket and tops it off.