Opportunity knocks due to incompetence of others

[Scottwax]

Regular customer had his Range Rover Sport parked outside last week when the neighbors had their pool deck sealed on a typically windy spring day. The workers apparently made no effort to control the overspray or let anyone in the immediate area know they should move their vehicles into the garage to protect them.



Now the Range Rover is caked in overspray from whatever sealed the deck. I clayed a couple test sections and while the clay smoothed it out, it didn't completely remove the specks. My Meguiars G110, an orange 5.5" Erasure cutting pad and Optimum Hyper Polish did...and also removed nearly all the spider swirling in this Range Rover. Very obvious difference between the fender (which I polished) and the untouched front door). The owner has finally seen what I mean by paint correction (been after him for 2 years about it with this Range Rover) and so he wants both the overspray removed and the paint corrected.



Got it set up for next week.

 

[Jean-Claude]

Good job Scott. All autopian-grade detailers need to chip in for a PSA for Thursday nights on NBC. Get the word out on what folks have been missing out on!

 

[JohnKleven]

Nice work Scott. Glad to hear you're out there educating....





John

 

[PhatHoodDetail]

just when u hear things are bad, something good happens, hopefully this will get you more customers also.

 

[Tuck91]

Will you charge more to remove the overspray?

 

[vtec92civic]

Good job Scott. All autopian-grade detailers need to chip in for a PSA for Thursday nights on NBC. Get the word out on what folks have been missing out on!

YES! People need to know what's up.



Late Breaking News tonight on NBC. Auto Detailers take over the world and are here to educate everyone on what a real Detail is . . . . .



LoL.



Scott excellent man. I'm glad that worked out for you.

 

[Scottwax]

Will you charge more to remove the overspray?

Absolutely. Takes more effort to clay off than typical bonded contaminants. Plus I have to blade all the glass.

 

[Envious Eric]

tell him to have the pool company pick up part of the tab! happens all the time I guess with painting companies doing large exterior work

 

[Scottwax]

tell him to have the pool company pick up part of the tab! happens all the time I guess with painting companies doing large exterior work

He is doing that, he contacted his neighbor last night to get the name of the company.

 

[RaskyR1]

Nice!



I cringe every time I see painting (spraying) of anything outdoors! People have no clue just how far the crap travels and how much damage it does. :faint:

 

[Tony1]

He is doing that, he contacted his neighbor last night to get the name of the company.

After he gets the name of the company he needs to find the clowns responsible and punch them in the mouth. It's the least I would do.

 

[Labster]

Had this happen a few times as well. Road paint is often times the case but the worst I've ever dealt with is dried cement getting wet and acting as splatter. It was awful! way to be educating them Scott and thanks for the b-day wishes on facebook haha

 

[howareb]

I am glad for you Scott. I guess you could have talked until you were blue in the face; seeing is believing.

 

[justin30513]

Awesome Scott.



I've had customers not want any correction done so I taped up a square, and polished away. Once they saw this, they hooked up. Only one out of a 100 has got mad....LOL!

 

[evolutionwc3]

Good work Scott- did you try any Opt PowerClean to help loosen the contaminants up? The only reason I ask is because I think you posted once how powerclean helped remove some road paint splatter, which lead me to pick up a gallon

 

[Scottwax]

Nice!



I cringe every time I see painting (spraying) of anything outdoors! People have no clue just how far the crap travels and how much damage it does. :faint:

I look at is as job security! I don't particularly like doing overspray removal but there is a lot of money in it.

 

[Scottwax]

Good work Scott- did you try any Opt PowerClean to help loosen the contaminants up? The only reason I ask is because I think you posted once how powerclean helped remove some road paint splatter, which lead me to pick up a gallon

If the polishing hadn't done the trick, OPC was the next step to further soften it up.



I probably over-estimated the price a bit but it is easier to come down than to go up-thought initially after claying it was going to be a bear to remove-OPC or a paint thinner and 2 polishing steps. Looks like it will be a lot easier than that.