Car Washing Horror Stories

My neighbor from Hell uses steel wool on everything and laughs at me when I have a large stack of towels hanging on a rope across the driveway to keep them off the ground. His towels are laying on the driveway with his bags of SW. His two week old Scion Xb is not holding up as well as his black Dodge Crewcab. The gold Scion looks terrible from 50 feet away. I am not getting any closer.
 
critical_level2 said:
This happened this afternoon.

They are doing road construction around my way. So when I got home, I decided to use some of my quicker detailer on it, to remove some dust from driving through the area. My car had just been washed the other day and it was not dirty enough to warrant a full was, just needed some touch up.

SO I get home and grab the bottle and notice the top sprayer is broken off along with the top part of the bottle. One of my many animals (probably the cat) must have knocked it down. There was still a good amount left as it is the big spray bottle. I have some extra clean spray bottle around I use for spraying the cats with water. SO I scrubbed one and dried it to make sure it was clean. I then poured the remaining quick detailer into this spray bottle. I took a sharpie to it and wrote QD on the side so I would remember what it was. Then off I go outside to clean the dust off.

Here is where it gets fun. AS I am cleaning my Element, my neighbors wife sees me and asks what I am doing. I told her what I was doing. She decides to clean her husbands new car, as he is out of town on business and left his car home. She starts spraying his car and wiping it with bath towels. Something seemed wrong with this picture. I noticed a unmarked spray bottle bottle but could not see what it was. After I was done, I went over to see how she was doing. She was done and the car was wrecked.

Come to find the bottle was filled with concrete cleaner. She felt that since her husband uses it to clean th garage floor it would work for the car. She also used industrial strength Goo-Off (not safe for paint) to get anything the cleaner had left behind.



My neighbor is in for a real treat when he gets home and sees the paint is completely destroyed on his Brand New 2009 Hemi Orange Pearl Dodge Challenger SRT-8. I will be sitting on my front porch awaiting his arrival. Should be quite a show.
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So.... has the husband come back?
 
michakaveli said:
So.... has the husband come back?
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Oh he returned last night. I was out front with my nephews. He pulled up into the driveway and stood there for a good 30 minutes, like he was a stone statue. I decided to go over. He wasn't super duper mad, but he was upset. He told me it was his own fault for not putting the car cover on it, as his wife knows not to touch the cars if the cover is on them. He said now it gives him a reason to repaint it Sublime, which is the same color of his 1970 Challenger R/T he has in storage. He was upset at what happened, but he understood his wife was just trying to do something nice for him, as she knows how anal he is about keeping their cars clean. SO now he will have a 1970 and 2009 matching chargers.
 
critical_level2 said:
SO now he will have a 1970 and 2009 matching chargers.
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Oh really?



That is oool though, I would flip out if I saw a new Challenger in Sublime, or Plum Crazy Purple, my all time favorite Mopar color.
 
anarchistchiken said:
Oh really?



That is oool though, I would flip out if I saw a new Challenger in Sublime, or Plum Crazy Purple, my all time favorite Mopar color.
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His wife drive a Plum Crazy 2006 Charger Daytona edition.
 
When I was about 11 years old my dad was out of town so I decided I was going to wash his white corvette for him. I figured since it was white that bleach would be the best thing to get it super clean. So I went to work with my spray bottle of bleach and old bath towels...it didn't end well LOL. Fortunately my dad understood that I was just trying to be nice, but he did get pretty upset. Lesson learned!
 
DownFlyer said:
When I was a teenager in the high school band, we ran these car wash fund raisers at a local gas station. The teacher told us all to bring rags and stuff from home to use. So I and everyone else brought all kinds of old cut up shirts, terry cloths, old bath towels, etc. At least we were hanging them on pipes at the gas station so they would not touch the ground.



We got everything from ancient Pontiacs to an occasional Audi(!!) I look back at it and laugh, but damn, from reading this forum I know better than to take my car to such a car wash!
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haha I have a similar story. My brothers class did a fundraiser washing cars and they were doing fine (as fine as a car wash with rags and dish soap can be) until someone got a pebble caught in their rag and gouged a 6 month old 6-series Bimmer. That was the last car wash that school held.



Another thing that I have witnessed is a girl that I went to high school with telling about how she washed her car with a brillo pad. Then she goes on to ask me why it has so many scratches and isnt shiny anymore. I told her for $450 I would make it look like new again. She said no and I just laughed.
 
mercury89 said:
haha I have a similar story. My brothers class did a fundraiser washing cars and they were doing fine (as fine as a car wash with rags and dish soap can be) until someone got a pebble caught in their rag and gouged a 6 month old 6-series Bimmer. That was the last car wash that school held.



Another thing that I have witnessed is a girl that I went to high school with telling about how she washed her car with a brillo pad. Then she goes on to ask me why it has so many scratches and isnt shiny anymore. I told her for $450 I would make it look like new again. She said no and I just laughed.
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She was blonde, right?
 
While at 7-11 a few weeks ago, I happened to see a black hazed S600 in the parking lot. I waited for the owner (I live in West Virginia--it's not a common sight in this area) to give him one of my cards. Conversation starts out as usual "nice car" blah blah, and I eventually mention the noticeable haze on the paint. I tell the owner, who happens to be a British musician who regularly tours Europe, that I can make it look a lot better. He then spit on his hand, rubbed it on a rear panel, and said "see, it all comes off". I didn't want to go into some long and drawn out conversation about paint care, so I just smiled. Seemed like a cool guy though. He mentioned that he had another one in impound and that the police were trying to sell it back to him.
 
Domas said:
Take a look at this video :D



Blonde using pressure washer
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Domas said:
I wonder what is her purpose of spraying water inside the trunk... :D
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I see a little kid wandering around in front of the car -- perhaps he puked or crapped in the car and she's trying to hose out the smell as best as she can -- including the cargo area?



I sorta remember doing the same thing with a church van many, many years ago after one of our group had a few too many beers. (What the good father didn't know about some of the youth group trips.... )
 
At my old condo I used to ONR my car in the parking garage. Well one day I'm doing it and the old lady who parks across from me comes out and just watches me for about 20 minutes. She then goes back to her condo and comes back with a ratty old towel.



She proceeds to wipe down her brand new black BMW. We've all talked about how soft the black beamers are here. I'm watching her and cringing. She then comes over to me and goes, "You do a pretty good job on your car, I'm pretty OCD about mine too. You take a long time though. I just did my car in about 10 minutes."



I say, "yeah but you just put a ton of scratches in your paint." I walked over and showed her the swirl marks in her paint and she gasped. "How much would that cost to get that out?" I told her that it would probably be a few hundred for someone that will get good results. She stomped back inside all ticked off. I went back to my ONRing.
 
^OWNED



i love when people have some comment about how much longer it takes to do it the way we do (doing things the right way and safe way), then you show them the difference or explain as to why you do every little thing. ha
 
i was in an auto shop class in high school, mostly for fun since i had already been raised around cars since i could walk so most of the stuff we did in class was old news, but a lot of the other students in there were clueless. well one day, this girl brought in her boyfriends acura integra so we could put a new intercooler in it. well, when we got in finished up she decided she wanted to clean it up before she returned it to her (now ex)boyfriend. so i was putting tools away and what not and i turned around and she had sprayed straight simple green all over the car and was wiping it off with paper towels. you could almost hear the paint screaming in pain.:wall
 
shinyred6 said:
she had sprayed straight simple green all over the car and was wiping it off with paper towels. you could almost hear the paint screaming in pain.:wall
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My ex did this to her dads truck. He used diluted simple green to clean off the wheels, tires and the bed, which had a spray in liner. Well she decided to be nice and use it full strength one day to clean the rest of his truck. His expression was priceless.
 
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