Car Wash Horror Stories
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mr alan said:
Sa Calobra said:
Three times I've asked the main dealer NOT to wash my car and everytime they wash and vacuum it. I hate clean cars. Mechanics I'm s
t hot on but washing? No. I bet the dealer loves washing it as I'm in dispute over warranty items so this is probably small sniggering ways of getting back at me... 
The S3- as long as it comes up sparkling who cares? It's a metal box to be used to it's fullest capacity. Not a valuable air loom.
Sorry pedantic alert, but it's "Heirloom"t hot on but washing? No. I bet the dealer loves washing it as I'm in dispute over warranty items so this is probably small sniggering ways of getting back at me... The S3- as long as it comes up sparkling who cares? It's a metal box to be used to it's fullest capacity. Not a valuable air loom.
si_xsi said:
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
I watch them cleaning cars in Salisbury's car park...they spray some water over the car with one of those sprayers you use for misting plants, and then wipe the car over with a cloth. Yes it's clean, but the paintwork is ruined.
I guess people are just stupid and just don't care or understand the implications?
...and it costs £8.
Yes I've seen this, it's painful watching. They even stand between the tyres and wheel arch to reach the roof. What the actual f**k. Before I met my current girlfriend she asked for hers to be cleaned at a supermarket car wash, she's not into cars and didn't know what the going rate was but they charged her £25...I wash her car now. I guess people are just stupid and just don't care or understand the implications?
...and it costs £8.
cayman-black said:
fk````! Thats the end of this thread then.
why do people still use these things? i was at a manual power wash place at the weekend and the next section had them horrific auto washes and a BMW was getting destroyed.k````! Thats the end of this thread then.getting your car washed is far more difficult than it should be, unless you have the luxury of owning your own drive way and ample space.
Many years ago I worked selling auto parts on a combined petrol station/auto part franchise - at the rear of the lot (ooo-er missus) we had a drive through car wash.
One sunny Friday afternoon I wandered out the back of the main building to have a cigarette, and noticed a youngish lady pull her Mk3 fiesta (very early one, circa G plate) into the car wash and see the mechanism start. I think nothing more and amble back in to do some more work....later I have my sandwich/smoke and notice that there is an identical Mk3 fiesta going through the car wash (though this time the wash was already running).
About an hour later (so about 2.5hrs after my first smoke break) I go for a smoke.....at this point my brain registers that it is a unlikely conincidence that on my third visit there is an identical Mk3 Fiesta in the wash so I rush over to find.....a very upset driver who had driven over the right hand guide rail, so when then wash started it jammmed the drivers door shut (denting it in the process), pushed the mechanism of the guide rails pinning it to the offside of the car too......suffice to say she was very very upset...but apparently hadn't realised that she could have wound the window down and hit the 'stop' button in front of her....
One sunny Friday afternoon I wandered out the back of the main building to have a cigarette, and noticed a youngish lady pull her Mk3 fiesta (very early one, circa G plate) into the car wash and see the mechanism start. I think nothing more and amble back in to do some more work....later I have my sandwich/smoke and notice that there is an identical Mk3 fiesta going through the car wash (though this time the wash was already running).
About an hour later (so about 2.5hrs after my first smoke break) I go for a smoke.....at this point my brain registers that it is a unlikely conincidence that on my third visit there is an identical Mk3 Fiesta in the wash so I rush over to find.....a very upset driver who had driven over the right hand guide rail, so when then wash started it jammmed the drivers door shut (denting it in the process), pushed the mechanism of the guide rails pinning it to the offside of the car too......suffice to say she was very very upset...but apparently hadn't realised that she could have wound the window down and hit the 'stop' button in front of her....
I'm into detailing in a fairly big obsessive way, and i am the one who washes all our 5 cars (parents 2 included). They are all barred from using any car wash, they understand the damage those tossers cause.
In the summer i couldn't think what to get the old man for a birthday present, so decided to get his touareg a paint correction and detail. I would have normally done it myself, but was in the middle of moving house and had no garage to do it in, and being such a big car which cripples my back i had it done with a proper detailers in Llanelli - guy did a fantastic job.
Old man sold the car a few months later to his best mate, touareg was still looking great. Sadly he isn't a well guy and can't wash it himself, so i don't blame him taking it to the local scratch 'n' swirl but there are some detailing places around that can do a proper job just takes a bit longer.
When i found out he had been using them i was a bit miffed that the money i spent on a detail had basically been wasted, but who cares it' not our car anymore, but to top it all off, in the hand car wash, they managed to snap his handbrake release pull, and blame it on him accusing him of 'having it glued on' in the first place!
Utter utter cowboys
In the summer i couldn't think what to get the old man for a birthday present, so decided to get his touareg a paint correction and detail. I would have normally done it myself, but was in the middle of moving house and had no garage to do it in, and being such a big car which cripples my back i had it done with a proper detailers in Llanelli - guy did a fantastic job.
Old man sold the car a few months later to his best mate, touareg was still looking great. Sadly he isn't a well guy and can't wash it himself, so i don't blame him taking it to the local scratch 'n' swirl but there are some detailing places around that can do a proper job just takes a bit longer.
When i found out he had been using them i was a bit miffed that the money i spent on a detail had basically been wasted, but who cares it' not our car anymore, but to top it all off, in the hand car wash, they managed to snap his handbrake release pull, and blame it on him accusing him of 'having it glued on' in the first place!
Utter utter cowboys
justleanitupabit said:
Barchettaman said:
The stories in this thread have been entertaining enough, but then someone chips in with 'air loom', that's just magic.
To be filed away along with 'chester draws'
I wouldn't want to put such an error on a pedal stool.To be filed away along with 'chester draws'
sc0tt said:
justleanitupabit said:
Barchettaman said:
The stories in this thread have been entertaining enough, but then someone chips in with 'air loom', that's just magic.
To be filed away along with 'chester draws'
I wouldn't want to put such an error on a pedal stool.To be filed away along with 'chester draws'
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