what`s the worst mistake you`ve made while detailing?

**docker** · 02-10-2006, 09:43 AM

Offering to detail my Mom`s mini-van. Ugh... They always USE to take it to a car wash ever couple weeks, but now they bug the crap out of me every couple of weeks to `make it look nice`. Crap, 74 years old and now has to have the best looking vehicle at the senior center.

Good thing for quick detailers and OCW !!!

**ptim** · 02-10-2006, 01:41 PM

Started cleaning the engine on one of two cars, got water down under the coil covers down around the sparkplugs, car ran like crap, had to pay for a engine test and to replace the plugs, also I refunded the money. They were so mad, I even told them that I would detail the other car for free, just to keep them happy. They didnt want anything to do with me and I havent seen them since. :sosad

**imported_karwaxer** · 02-10-2006, 02:31 PM

when I first started out I shampooed a headliner, it looked great until about an hour or two later when the whole thing sagged. Had to replace headliner on a 10 year old car.

**BigAl3** · 02-10-2006, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by AndyA6

Dropping my PC on the roof of my car in a moment of being spaced out, nice little dent.......

this has also happened to me as well. perhaps i should use the side handle?

**602rwtq** · 02-25-2006, 06:03 PM

I sat on a can of spray paint while squatting to clean a rocker panel. Compressor was on, so I couldn`t hear the hiss. Only when my scrotum was feeling cold and wet did I realize what I was doing. :hide:

**White95Max** · 02-25-2006, 07:13 PM

:lol :lol :lol

**aaron33** · 02-25-2006, 09:31 PM

Originally Posted by 602rwtq

I sat on a can of spray paint while squatting to clean a rocker panel. Compressor was on, so I couldn`t hear the hiss. Only when my scrotum was feeling cold and wet did I realize what I was doing. :hide:

I just have to ask..... What color?

**602rwtq** · 02-25-2006, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by aaron33

I just have to ask..... What color?

Primer grey. I turned those pants into designated paint pants.

**Tasty** · 02-26-2006, 11:19 AM

LOL! Nothing quite as miserable as a cold and wet scrotum.

**hrprem** · 03-03-2006, 04:51 PM

I was very happily reading this thread, letting all the invaluable information sink in, and get to the end to be utterly entertained :chuckle:

**BigAl3** · 04-16-2006, 12:15 AM

anymore stories?

**Flatfour** · 04-16-2006, 01:03 AM

Yesterday I was trying out my new PC.

As I live in Belgium, I also need a transformer from 220 to 110 volts to use that PC.

I did the roof, one side and when I got to the hood of the car, I tought by myself : "let`s do that first with the rotary to get the really bad swirls out",

the owner had "washed" his car and used some scotchbrite pad to clean up spots on his roof.

So I switched from PC to rotary, installed a pad and start polishing, after a minute or two, I realised that the rotary was barely running....

.... I used the transformer plug of 110 volts instead of the regular 220 volts...

(And while I was doing that, I kept on saying to the owner, who is luckily a friend, that a rotary make a laugh with such spots....)

**BigAl3** · 04-16-2006, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by Wally

the owner had "washed" his car and used some scotchbrite pad to clean up spots on his roof.

**Nolan_k** · 04-16-2006, 06:23 PM

Not something I personnaly did, but on my way home from dropping my wife off at work. I saw a guy waxing with paper towel. And not good stuff like bounty it was a roll of the industrial stuff with no perforations. Worst of all it was a black pickup. A ranger to be exact. I almost had to pull over to throw up. Oh and when I got home there was a guy here at my condo complex washing his car. He sees me out there with my truck at least once a week so he stopped me and asked "is this a good soap" holding up a bottle of blue Dawn. I said ya its great for dishes, but I wouldnt let it touch paint. So I went up and poured a small bottle of Gold Class for him. Gave him my number and told him not to hesitate with any other questions.

**Tasty** · 04-16-2006, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by Nolan_k

Not something I personnaly did, but on my way home from dropping my wife off at work. I saw a guy waxing with paper towel. And not good stuff like bounty it was a roll of the industrial stuff with no perforations. Worst of all it was a black pickup.

I`m so cold....so cold.... :nervous2: