RE: Never wash your car again!

[jrampton]

Clean and Shiny in Aldershot can do GTechniq for less than half that or as others have said get some PPF done on it, i've seen one what you can use wire wool on, poor hot water over and it self heals.

[mnx42]

Boosted LS1 said:

What is the second car pictured in the write up, a rear quarter shot? I know I've seen it before but the name escapes me. Pantera?

Lamborghini...err.. something. Hurracan?

[mat205125]

Rude-boy said:

mat205125 said:

Exactly.

Should read "Never polish your car again.

Whilst I like a clean and shiny car as much as the next person, I don't understand why people spend so much time on cars like the Ferrari Speciale in the feature ....... it's designed as a drivers car! f@#king drive it and enjoy it, and who cares if it gets dirty, chipped and scraped along the way!!

Because when you have a car that 'gets' you as much, even once you have got out of it and finished your driving for the day, you still want to look after it. I am not a big car cleaner - I honestly can't tell you if it was 6 or 9 months ago i last showed the VW a sponge - but i still spent 4 hours on the CS this weekend. Full nose to tail wash, polish, wax and rainX all windows. Plus a little bit of fluid level checking.

I may also have spent a little of that time just looking at it, as I do most evenings when i pop out for a smoke. Been on my drive for near 5 years now and still puts a smile on my face every time i see it like nothing else, short of the Mrs.

The above is a good point, and I too enjoy spending many hours washing and polishing my cars ..... that doesn't mean that I want to exhibit them or wrap them into a cocoon like a Faberge egg.

This "innovation" robs the likes of you and I of the simple pleasures of spending a peaceful Sunday afternoon on the drive cleaning our cars.

[Hoofy]

PHMatt said:

Rude-boy said:

PHMatt said:

£2k to an Pagani owner is like a fiver in the local scrub n scratch to most of us.

Most people who can afford a Pagani also know when they are being asked to pay a high price for Snake Oil...

I doubt that. May be if they're driving sub 100k cars. If they're in £1m+ cars they probably have a difference sense of what's normal expenditure.

P'raps. I'm now asking myself if I would spend £5 to have this special thing done where you only have to wash your car to keep it clean. Even if it were free, I'm thinking several days in a workshop... I quite like having my cars covered in a free protective layer that stops people brushing past it as they know their clothes will get quite dirty.

[davyvee]

GCH said:

Living the dream

[eliot]

Yet another thread not going the way the editor hoped.

[cookie1600]

Is this the automotive equivalent of a spray tan?

[Neil E 99]

I quite enjoy washing the my car, Yes me doing it. Then giving it either a machine polish or a quick go over couple of times a year. With normal polish. It gives good results.

Is there somethiung wrong in this?

Regardelss of how much money I had, if I had a super car I would still enjoy washing it and cleaning it.

It seems to me that these super cars spend most of their time having the "paint corrected" rather than being used for what they were intended.

Edited by Neil E 99 on Monday 5th October 16:11

[Motorrad]

I'm not a big fan of this thinly disguised shill selling of products.

However a few thousand pounds is chump change to a supercar owner so I can see how it might make sense once you start getting into the really high end stuff. That said the few people I've known with proper supercars seemed to enjoy doing as much as possible with them. Cleaning and polishing included.

[Amirhussain]

R8VXF said:

GCH said:

That guy was nuts!

What's the story behind that?

[Lancashire Lad]

The words more money than sense spring to mind!

[rohrl]

Amirhussain said:

What's the story behind that?

That's the guy who bought a new Vauxhall Astra then proceeded to spend the next couple of months dismantling and polishing the thing. There was very well discussed thread on Detailing World but it's behind a membership firewall nowadays.

[Pesty]

Amirhussain said:

R8VXF said:

GCH said:

That guy was nuts!

What's the story behind that?

If my memory serves it was a thread on detailing world where one of the more 'anal' detailers had ordered some sort of limited edition vxr Astra.

He detailed the st out of it complaining about how crack the paint was from the dealer ( all the pictures looked pretty perfect) but he found on the roof a tiny mark of some sort so went back and forth trying to reject the car. Iirc it was something so small he had trouble photographing it.

Unless it's a different car.

I also remember one where a guy just went bat st crazy detailing his new car think that was an Astra too. Took months doing it

Edit different car looking at the pic it was the second guy who took months detailing. His car giving it over 50 layers of wax etc etc complaining about marks in the carpet under the seats etc.
thread seems to have been removed it was linked on most motoring websites. The guy appeared mentally ill old type condition.

Edited by Pesty on Monday 5th October 16:44

[ManFromDelmonte]

Pesty said:

If my memory serves it was a thread on detailing world where one of the more 'anal' detailers had ordered some sort of limited edition vxr Astra.

He detailed the st out of it complaining about how crack the paint was from the dealer ( all the pictures looked pretty perfect) but he found on the roof a tiny mark of some sort so went back and forth trying to reject the car. Iirc it was something so small he had trouble photographing it.

Unless it's a different car.

I also remember one where a guy just went bat st crazy detailing his new car think that was an Astra too. Took months doing it

Edited by Pesty on Monday 5th October 16:36

I saw one where a guy detailed his Dyson

[rohrl]

ManFromDelmonte said:

I saw one where a guy detailed his Dyson

That was a quite-funny parody of the Astra thread I think.

[DJP]

TooMany2cvs said:

Novel definition of "Never wash your car again!", Dan.

So, basically, two quid a day for a coating that means your car stays clean so long as you wash it regularly. All my cars have had that. It's called "paint", and is a standard factory feature on just about everything.

This^^.

That line's not really selling it to me!

[number1nesta]

Wheels. What about wheels? Clean wheels make a car look clean yet they're THE part I hate doing. I yearn for a product that really does repel brake dust and road grime...

[Ursicles]

bulldong said:

For £2k I can have 200 washes at the Eastern European car washes inside and out.

Way thatw as written sounded like they might bath you and give you a colonic

[Rude-boy]

rohrl said:

Amirhussain said:

What's the story behind that?

That's the guy who bought a new Vauxhall Astra then proceeded to spend the next couple of months dismantling and polishing the thing. There was very well discussed thread on Detailing World but it's behind a membership firewall nowadays.

Possibly, ever so slightly, because of the st that got ripped out of them over that very thread and similar ones like it.

Now every man to his own and all that. I find those that get dressed in lycra and ride about on bicycles 'a bit odd', they though are nothing compared to some detailers, some of whom you might well expect to see a picture of next to the definition 'Freek' in the OED

[R8VXF]

Rude-boy said:

rohrl said:

Amirhussain said:

What's the story behind that?

That's the guy who bought a new Vauxhall Astra then proceeded to spend the next couple of months dismantling and polishing the thing. There was very well discussed thread on Detailing World but it's behind a membership firewall nowadays.

Possibly, ever so slightly, because of the st that got ripped out of them over that very thread and similar ones like it.

Now every man to his own and all that. I find those that get dressed in lycra and ride about on bicycles 'a bit odd', they though are nothing compared to some detailers, some of whom you might well expect to see a picture of next to the definition 'Freek' in the OED

Some detailers, such as the chap in question, are so far past the line of being OCD that the line is just a dot to them! Proper loony bin material.