Car Washing Horror Stories - Page 4

taxidriver · 02-24-04, 04:27

yesterday i saw an old lady washing her car at the gas station
using the sponge from the window cleaning bucket
Her car was full of sand and salt

teamvegas · 02-24-04, 05:11

OOOUUUCCCHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe she thought the salt would help clean the sand!

Scottwax · 02-24-04, 07:07

How about Scotch Brite pads to smooth out touch up paint?

Good thing she called me

(Blue Moose, DACP, SFP, VM, CNW)

GoodnClean · 02-24-04, 08:43

Great work...

Thats a LOT of door dings

GreyFixer · 02-24-04, 10:34

I was washing my car in the coin-op with the pressure sprayer. I had the nozzle about 3 inches away from the paint when the time ran out and the water turned off. Now without the force of the water, the nozzle dropped and scrathed my door.

reevis · 02-25-04, 04:55

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Originally posted by GoodnClean
Thats a LOT of door dings

don't mean to hijack but...why do car manufacturers insist on putting the door guards at one of the lowest points on the door? Everytime I see a car door with dings, they are well above the guard. That Maxima is a perfect example...

neoflex · 02-25-04, 05:37

As I was cleaning up the cars this weekend I saw a woman from around the corner drive by with wax completly caked on, on every surface of the vehicle minus the windows. I do hope they realize that you should apply and remove. Scary part is it looked like it has been on there awile as there was salt and dirt built up over it. Hmmmmm maybe they are looking to really protect it from the salt!

Postwood · 02-25-04, 06:42

Well, mine don't even compare:

- Wife's coworker gets bird doo off her car with Scotch green pad.

- Saw BWM 535, beautiful beautiful black car, being washed by the owner at a spray em' off with the brush. He was putting his back into it too. Scrubbing the pretty hood with the bristles bend all the way down. I could tell that he normally has it done correctly. It was just the first warm day in a while and he wanted it clean.

- Not wash related, but my mother-in-law who is stuck in her ways always goes to a certain grocery store. Unfortunately, in the last 10 years or so, that part of town has become really run down. Since her 1996 Camry is the nicest looking thing in the lot, they will key her car and the old Cutlases will put massive door dings. Additionally horrible is that the Slum Winn Dixie has prices higher than the Publix that's only 2 miles further down the road in the medical district. I only do her car two or three times a year and otherwise she goes through a touchless, but each time I really look at the car it has taken more and more damage.

Dr. Woo · 02-25-04, 10:51

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Originally posted by neoflex
As I was cleaning up the cars this weekend I saw a woman from around the corner drive by with wax completly caked on, on every surface of the vehicle minus the windows. I do hope they realize that you should apply and remove. Scary part is it looked like it has been on there awile as there was salt and dirt built up over it. Hmmmmm maybe they are looking to really protect it from the salt!

That's a good idea with boots...apply polish in very generous amounts, don't work it in. We do that in the military when we're using our only pair for nasty details.

Red98gt · 02-25-04, 02:04

Wife used to get a kick out of me cringing when the lady across the street would have her 6 year old son help "wash" the Black 4Runner. She would walk around the car and get it wet with just a hose, the son was usually 1/2 a car ahead rubbing briskly with a Wooden Scrub Brush! By the time she finished most of the water was gone and the kid had scrubbed the whole car. She would then take dishwashing liquid and POUR it on the car, take the brush and SCRUB some more!!!! Rinse it off, then use PAPER TOWELS to dry it!!!!! OMG it hurt my eyes to watch!!!!!!!

thinksnow · 02-25-04, 03:06

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Originally posted by neoflex
As I was cleaning up the cars this weekend I saw a woman from around the corner drive by with wax completly caked on, on every surface of the vehicle minus the windows. I do hope they realize that you should apply and remove. Scary part is it looked like it has been on there awile as there was salt and dirt built up over it. Hmmmmm maybe they are looking to really protect it from the salt!

This is the little known Bill North WO Method. Through numerous trials, he changed his formula to the WOO Method and hasn't looked back since.

As a lad, I surprised my dad by removing all the bugs off of the front of the Suburban. Of course I did this with the steel wool from underneath the counter. As a happy ending, he found out the next week about a silent recall on that model for the paint and she got a new dealer coat within the month.

GoodnClean · 02-25-04, 05:06

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Originally posted by reevis
don't mean to hijack but...why do car manufacturers insist on putting the door guards at one of the lowest points on the door? Everytime I see a car door with dings, they are well above the guard. That Maxima is a perfect example...

Tell me about it. I walked out to the car today in a parking garage, huge door ding on the fender right on the wheel lip. I was pissed. I was afraid they wouldn't be able to remove it because it was so close to the panel's edge but I stopped by two PDR places on the way home and they said they could fix it. Gonna cost me $150 though, dumb people

As for a wash story when I was a kid I got one of those spinning brush deals. You know the kind you put on a hose and the brush spins around. Well I washed my dad's car with it (he had a light blue Chrysler 5th Avenue) and it must have picked up a rock