Ever do a stupid thing while detailing?

[Marksman]

Just the other day I decided to quickly wash and Z-6 my car while I had the time. It was VERY dirty. I used a water blade to initially dry my car and after I had done that, and gone over it with a towel to remove any remaining water, I looked at my hood and noticed that I missed a couple spots while washing. There were a few areas where light dust could be seen but the worst part was I went over all that with the water blade! You could even see the marks in the dust where the blade had skid along the hood! That made me want to cry. Not only did I potentially scratch the hell out of my paint but I just finished drying and now I had to do it all over again. DOH!
So, that got me thinking... How many of you have screwed up big like that before and what's your story?

[satyr64]

Sounds like me. Ever so often something stupid happens to me. Last stupid thing I did was after wash and dry pulled her into the garge and decide to sweep the driveway down, put broom back into the garge and it slid off the wall onto the car door. Lucky it didnt cause any damage.

[jlfrogy]

You mean like lift the PC before shutting off, NAH!!!!!!!!!! NOT ME! (big lie)

[GearHead_1]

Originally posted by jlfrogy
You mean like lift the PC before shutting off, NAH!!!!!!!!!! NOT ME! (big lie)

No never, not me either.

[Deemo]

Originally posted by GearHead_1
No never, not me either.

That makes three of us then!

[Dale DeSteno]

Originally posted by Deemo
That makes three of us then!

4's a charm!


Man, I have done so many stupid things, but NONE of which resulted in any real damage...mostly just more detailing time.

[majik1]

5, 6, and 7......it gets fun after awhile....

[majik1]

if ur bored try it with a rotary soaked in water.....

[Vincent Vega]

Day one with my PC. Freshly washed, wet, crappy white foam pad on it(Coastal tool). Tried the spin dry method. All the water went to one side of the pad. Force was too great. A large chunk of soaking wet pad tore off and went flying across the garage. No more spin drying for me.

[dgraupman]

When I first started using the PC I was working on my friends' beater and had become enamored with how well DACP and a yellow pad was thinning out a 4 inch scratch just below and parallel to the drivers side window. Well, if a little work was good then a lot would be better, so I loaded up the pad with DACP, cranked it up to 6 and went after the rest of the scratch. After about 30 seconds of basically boring the pad into this scratch, I pulled the PC away and the scratch was all but gone...so was the pinstriping just below it. So now there's this 6 inch section of almost non-existent pinstripe right where you have to look at it everytime you get in the car. Considering the rest of the car looked much better and it was a beater to begin with, the owner didn't mind, but all I could think about was what if this had been a real beauty queen I'd just botched and how I'd have been handing the owner a personal check along with his keys when they came to pick it up. Thank goodness for forgiving friends and for a cheap lesson learned.

[turborave]

popped my hood with the wipers in the "upright" position. then went around to the front and lifted it up the rest of the way.. :O it look about an inch of paint off the pack lip of the hood.

[du3ce]

i accidently sprayed tire shine on my car i thought it was my detail spray bottle.