Does your wife/girlfriend like to help you detail?

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Husband/boyfriend for you ladies!



I guess I'm a really lucky guy. My awesome wife loves......



1. Cars

2. Car shows

3. Customizing

4. Detailing

5. Helping me detail

6. NASCAR

7. Drag Racing

8. Basketball

9. Football

10. Shopping



9 out of 10 is not bad.



(I've actually caught her in the act of Cali-dusting!)



Anyway, just wanted to give her a little credit for being a great wife........thanks Pam......
 
You are a blessed man indeed. My wife is the exact opposite. I see other women at the car wash all the time taking care of their cars and wonder what happened to my wife. She loves it when I detail her car, but she puts no effort whatsoever into keeping it that way. Count your blessings. I envy you.. :D
 
My wife is my only employee. :D She comes out with me on every job I do. She is the master of the interior and I do the outside. She does an awesome job. She wants to learn how to use the PC this year. All you guys still looking for a wife can stop looking right now. I've already got the perfect woman. :)
 
Like Luster, my wife shares my interests (some more enthusiastically than others) and deserves a lot of credit. She helps with the final drying/QDing on a regular basis and is happy to help with other stuff if I ask. She takes good care of her cars and even makes sure her passengers "behave properly". Doesn't do windows, though :o



She likes to keep her cars a looong time, and always got a real kick out of people asking if her old S4 was the "new model" (and was really steamed when a young girl rear-ended her).



Yes, I know how lucky I am :xyxthumbs
 
...as long as she herself isn't required to supply any time/energy in getting them there.



I guess it's a symbiosis we share; we both take care of things for each other that are important to us but they're somehow mutually exclusive.



I wish she dug car shows more, she'll go to them, but after about an hour, she's bored. That's ok, if she made me sit in a shoe emporium for that long.... :)



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Hey Jake11375

I think for a lot of us we're lucky opposites attract! My wife is just like yours. She likes when her car is clean, but will take the muddies back road to get to work 3 minutes faster!!! DOH!:down



I'll spend hours in the garage working on the cars. I'll ask her to come see the results and she's happy. But she could never tell a difference if I switched polishes or waxes.



Oh well.

TJ
 
Are you familiar with the phrase, "If you want it done right, do it yourself?" It would be nice if my wife helped me, but I'm so particular about how I want things done, I'm a pain to work with. Another problem I have is my wife, of 17 years, hasn't mastered the art of mind reading. :D
 
My ex-wife helped by trashing her car so it took me longer, but I wouldn't really call that help. She was into auto racing though....NASCAR and NHRA.



My last g/f didn't have any interest at all, but sure didn't mind me detailing her car for her. At least she did cook me dinner and ...uh...other things! ;)
 
I'm expected to detail (in & out) both cars, in order to justify my spending habits. We're looking for a garage-whoops! I mean house right now, and she's rightly afraid she'll never see me again. At least both cars will look pristine...
 
After seeing my detailed car, my girlfriend loves having her car look just the same as long as I do it. I tried one weekend to get her involved, set her up with her own buckets and wash mitt and showed her the proper techniques. I did one half while she did the other. Not only did she actually miss large portions of panels, what she did wash wasn't much cleaner. When I tried to show her how to polish, she gave up and said to just put the wax on and she'd help buff it off. Oddly enough, she did do the windows which I can't stand to do.



After that episode, if I can't get to her car, she takes it to the car wash. Luckily she has a silver car so it doesn't look too bad.



She is really good about letting me do what I want though. She never complains about me detailing and always complements me on how good the car looks afterwards.



Michael
 
but my husband does! He usually does the interior work - vacuuming, shampooing, etc. and leaves the paint to me. I'm hoping with the PC that I can get him to try it and help with the paint. At least he doesn't make fun of my "obsession". He likes having a clean vehicle. :)
 
RegalGS said:
but my husband does! He usually does the interior work - vacuuming, shampooing, etc. and leaves the paint to me. I'm hoping with the PC that I can get him to try it and help with the paint. At least he doesn't make fun of my "obsession". He likes having a clean vehicle. :)
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Looks like we are polar opposites. :p Long time no see, by the way. Spring is coming and Mamma Inez is only a couple months away. :bounce
 
My hubby will help with the washing, polishing, waxing, if I ask nicely and not too often.



I like hockey and football more than him too, but that doesn't mean I like those sports very much. :D



I like auto racing, and he couldn't care less. And his name is Stirling, after Stirling Moss. Even sitting in Stirling Moss's car at the age of four didn't get him interested in racing.:nixweiss
 
Even sitting in Stirling Moss's car at the age of four didn't get him interested in racing.



Wow :nixweiss



Many years ago when I first met my girlfriend/wife she helped me clean the wheels on my BMW and that was it. Never helped again, not really a bad thing as she did a terrible job.



Steven
 
NOT A CHANCE

She thinks i am a bit weird for spending so much time on it as it is!

but as usual she likes her car looking clean so guess who has to do that for her?



Mike
 
Add mine to the list of "not a snowball's chance in hell" list... She loves it when I get her car all clean, despite the fact that it only lasts about 5 minutes, and she doesn't really care. I'm like, "I just spent 6 hours on this car, and you go mudding in it??"



Women... can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.... :argue
 
My wife just doesn't understand the art of detailing a vehicle properly. Dishwashing detergent, an old sponge and an old bathtowel to dry and she feels she's done a great job. Just doesn't share in this obssesion.
 
my boyfriend is a bit afraid of messing his car up, but loves a clean, detailed car. He's not afraid of the work, just terrified of more swirls. I boss, he listens. ;)



We both love driving, racing, etc... I've actually adopted his loves and he's taken on some of mine (then again, I'm not a 'typical' sort of female... shopping ain't my thing, etc.).
 
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