its official you all got me sick. I now have Amychophobia. This dawned upon me the other day when i went to lunch with my friends and my friend said she wanted to stop on the way home and get her car washed. We pulled into "The BEST car wash" and i suddenly felt sick to my stomach. I then put my head between my legs and almost died. I looked up just as the big spinning brushes touched the car and I got the worst chills ever. And the worst part was after the big blower they dried her doors and windows with a towel that I would not even dry my dog off with, that dried the previous customers 1400 b.c. dodge ram which looked as if it was soaked every day in a salt bath. horrible i know.

and a week or so ago went to the coin-op wash to spray off a good portion of the salt so my truck looked red again instead of white and I saw some guy with a newer PT cruiser that was using the coin-op vacuum and didn't want to put his clean mats on the wet/cruddy ground, so what did he do? yea he just flopped them on the hood. I almost vommitted.

sorry for the long rant, but you all asked for it.

 

PT Cruiser sounds like a good winter beater to me!!

 

true!

it was still horrific....

 

I agree...

My friend's cars make me sick now. I've already offered to detail two of my friends cars, and one's truck.. But they won't promise to take care of it after that.

I'm definitely a novice at this stuff, but what I can do blows away what they're doing.....

 

I agree with Attworth. My parents retired and are spending the next month in South Padre. I am practicing my skills with the new DA on her 2003 black Accord that was left behind. I picked up her car and brought it to the house today. I am using the Griots stuff that my dad got with his DA. I did just the front fenders and hood today. It looks a million times better but still has room for improvement. I thought about breaking my new Poorboys out, but decided against as this was the 2nd wax job in the cars 80,000 miles. You can see the blue flake again. I will post some pictures in a separate thread.

 

I can empathize. I was driving around Amarillo yesterday and where I used to just see a nice car here and a nice car there. All I could think was "wow that's a beautiful car.......oh man look at all that swirling. What do they use to dry it? Sandpaper!?"

Like a brand new 07 F350 King Ranch loaded to the hilt. Black and swirlled all to crap.

 

I witnessed the unthinkable over the weekend. I was at the coin-op to use the pressure washer on my fiance's car. After I was done, I pulled up to the vacuum. I look back in the wash bays and some guy pulls in with a brand new 08 F250 King Ranch and begins to use the wash brush on it. To make matters worse, I look 2 bays over and some kid (probably about 17/18) is washing what I would assume is his dad's 08 F250 Lariat...with the wash brush. I was sickened. I almost had to go up to them and ask them what they are thinking. It was sad.

 

I like to look in parking lots when its raining and see how many people dont wax their vehicles. But as far as filthy cars go, no car is worse than ones that haul kids around. My girlfriend has one kid and her car looks like something exploded in it every day. Needless to say the few times the kid has been in my truck, there were no cookies or crackers, or anything that would generate a crumb of any kind allowed. But that didnt stop the fingerprints from getting on the window.....

 

Talk about being ruined by the detailing bug...

I went to the Washington auto show on Friday and what did I see:

Not the new F-150, no concept cars, no Porsche's, no Aston Martin's, no Jaguar XKR's, no Audi's....






SWIRL MARKS, all I I could see was SWIRL MARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They were all shined up, looking nice and shiny from 30', but as soon as you could see the light (pardon the pun) it looked like someone had washed them down with 60 grip sandpaper.

Before I thought a clean car was one free of dirt with a fresh coat of wax. I will never look at a car the same way after I learned better.

 

The PT Cruiser part just made me lmao

 

I went to the Washington auto show on Friday and what did I see:

Not the new F-150, no concept cars, no Porsche's, no Aston Martin's, no Jaguar XKR's, no Audi's....






SWIRL MARKS, all I I could see was SWIRL MARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



-----tell me about it. i went to the detroit international autoshow. all geeked up to see the new f-150 and the swirls were horrendous. maybe i was being bias but it seemed as if the fords had less swirls. at least they were QD'ing them with some form of megs QD. it was pink. but they were using run of the mill towels and no sign of microfibers. i was thinking that since these are brand new cars and everyone was going to be looking at them they could take the time to get swirl free vehicles but i was wrong.

 

I really don't care about anyone else's car, it just makes mine look that much better. Well I take that back, I like to keep my Mom's and girlfriend's vehicle looking good. I'd love to be able to keep the Dad's truck clean but it's a wasted effort.

 

I was at the stock show this weekend. They had a drawing for a new GMC pickup (No thanks..)

Next to the new truck was a 60s era GMC pickup. (Everybody wanted to win that one...)

I thought it was beautiful. Then I took my girl nearby and asked her to point out what was wrong with it.... She pointed directly at the swirls.

Thanks JP! You got us both!

 

Well my girlfriend just bought me a bottle of 845, now beat that !!

 

My girlfriend is a starving college student at Le Cordon Bleu.. Atleast she can cook.