Remarks from neighbors

Kool_ZX3 said:
I guess u havn't seen most of them, the paint gm used was horrible, clear coat peeled, paint peeled, some ford's did it to but gm seemed to be the worst for bad paint.
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I believe I have, my brother had a 1982 Trans Am, a 1984 Pontiac, and a 1988 Grand

Prix, I owned a 1983 Cadillac Fleetwood and a 1989 Cadillac de Ville (which I still have)

and no paint work was ever done on any of them because of paint peeling, I haved owned nothing but GM cars since I purhcased my first one in 1970 a Cadillac, I had

a 1976 Olds which had some paint issues but it was over 20 years old when it started

having problems, the color is a light blue metallic (I still have that car, also)
 
Carl Anderson said:
Any interesting comments from neighbors you'd care to share?
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My neighbor who lives across the street, she's s nice old lady, she said to me on Sunday.....



Her: Hey how are you doing?



Me: Oh I'm doing alright, how have you been?



Her: Pretty good....I haven't seen you wash your car lately, have you been sick?



LOL, I couldn't help but laugh. I had just washed it on Wednesday, then on Saturday morning I'll usually go out and wash it again. That Saturday I ended up going to a friends to detail his F350 PowerStroke diesel, I neglected my car.
 
I once had a guy from the road crew come up to me in a rather alerted state, thinking I was rubbing the paint down with some sort of scrub pad (they were sealing the cracks in the street, slow moving work). I explained the clay and he responded with "oh, okay. wow, that's cool!" :)



There are the usual remarks, then this summer... "you got a business license?" from two different neighbors. I guess all the cars I was doing peaked their interest. It was said jokingly, though.



Then there's great interest when I'm trying out the new machines or techniques on my brother's beaters (initially the PC, then wetsanding, now the rotary). "What the hell are you DOING?!" as I rub down the fender of the Corrado with sandpaper :)



There was once the comment of "It doesn't matter how much you water that thing, it's not going to grow" when I had my first car (93 Tercel). The guy was sort of a jerk and had just had a bad experience, getting screwed over by a local car dealership ("Smith Brothers"), so I responded with "That's not what they told me at Smith Brothers!" :D



One of my neighbors finally hired me and he was blown away. Unfortunately, nobody else on the court has been interested enough to hire me - and some of those cars need it badly.
 
Yeah for a while I was thinking that I was nuts but when I recently moved to my new home, I had a very pleasant surprise my neighbor diagonal to my home details and cleans his cars just as much as I do, so my neighbors all think we are both insane!!!!!! If a funny site because you see both of us cleanning our cars at the same time and they just make comments like is this a race, we both just laugh but its cool ...the neighbors have been broken in already by my other neighbor so I get less crap...its okay it wouldn't stop me anyway.
 
pyiu said:
Yeah for a while I was thinking that I was nuts but when I recently moved to my new home, I had a very pleasant surprise my neighbor diagonal to my home details and cleans his cars just as much as I do, so my neighbors all think we are both insane!!!!!! If a funny site because you see both of us cleanning our cars at the same time and they just make comments like is this a race, we both just laugh but its cool ...the neighbors have been broken in already by my other neighbor so I get less crap...its okay it wouldn't stop me anyway.
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LOL that's exactly how it is with me; we're always walking over to each other's garages and comparing products, techniques, etc. -- it makes it great when there's a new product that one of us wants to try, we just agree to split the cost and split the bottle 50/50.



Of course, we've given eachother heart attacks a few times from walking up behind eachother while QDing or doing something where our focus is on the car and not the surroundings :laugh: "...well I thought you saw me in the reflection off the fender!!" :banned:
 
That's cool I guess we are the lucky ones....on the other hand my neighbor, sticks to the tradition stuff and I'm always letting him try new stuff. I turned him on to Poorboys Spray and gloss, now he refuses to try Adam's Detail spray until he's finished.....



I posted up a cool deal that Adam's Polishes is giving to the Audiworld guys, its promo code East and you get 10% off the total of the deal.
 
I got the new ford 500(black) and that very weekend I had to detail it, dealer didn't do the kinda job I wanted. So my wife works weekends at a flower shop where this guy comes in she knows. He's owned fords all his life, worked for them to. When she told him we got a new car and I was detailing it alreay he fell apart..."you never have to wax those cars!, I never wax mine and just run it through the car washes(automatic), thats all ya need." I had to laugh....I should send him a link to this sight to get an education...
 
Blame car salesmen for that kind of ignorance. I worked as a lot attendent / new car prep guy while in college (89-93), and I actually used to hear salesmen tell customers that with the "new" clearcoat paints never need waxing if you pay for the dealer applied paint protection (which was nothing more than some kind of super-cheap bulk wax! lol).
 
No one has ever told me a better way to do it. They do say I have the cleanest car, etc. I have started dressing a little better and threw out the ripped up jeans when someone came by and asked me for my card.



For the "do mine next", I just say "Sure, $300 an hour". One guy asked me more about it, and I said, "Yeah, $300 an hour, but I'm sleeping with the owner's wife".



:waxing: :buffing: :drool:
 
kevmo327 said:
What I can't stand is the annoying "my car is next" that I will get from at least one neighbor everytime I am detailing and it is usually the ones with the filthy POS cars
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I always say $300 and I'll need the car for two days. Except once, that ends the conversation. The one time it didn't, it was a cute girl and I did it for $200 :-)
 
Qship3000 said:
I always say $300 and I'll need the car for two days. Except once, that ends the conversation. The one time it didn't, it was a cute girl and I did it for $200 :-)
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hahaha too bad usually cute girl's car = dirty rotten hell :nervous: at least, that's been my experience.



And not to get off topic, but why is it that these girls are always so flirty when dropping the car off, but when they pick them up they act "too good" to be around the person who just worked their butt off detailing? Ah, the woes of being a lowly grease monkey :hairpull (before anyone says it, I always take a shower and change into fresh clothes before having the customer come back, or taking the car back to the customer.) :clap: I just can't stand the prissy, stuck-up attitude.
 
I was fluffing and buffing my truck, when 2 females rode by on a couple horses.



One said, can mine be next?



I said, "you want me to wash your horse"



lmao :)
 
JBM said:
I was fluffing and buffing my truck, when 2 females rode by on a couple horses.



One said, can mine be next?



I said, "you want me to wash your horse"



lmao :)
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I was waiting for a "wax that @ss" reference.... come on now, you're letting me down!! (you could take this two ways depending on your usage/reference of slang) :lol
 
when my neighbor asked me why my cars (all white) are ALWAYS soooo clean. i told him that when i order them i specify the paint that doesn't get dirty. yes, he actually believed me!!!
 
SK2003TypeS said:
To put an end to the neighboors comments:

Build a shrine for your PC in your front yard (if you haven't already), light candles (19 minimum), play your favorite weird song loud and on repeat mode and do an outdated dance (ex: MC Hammer). Also, when you detail, wear a cape, mask and boots of dexterity. Not only will they stop asking you questions, they will cross the street when they have to walk by you.



Detail on...fellow Autopians share your pain:cool:
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Now you've got me thinking... (Just gotta figure out how the cape will not TOUCH my paint... UNLESS I can make a cape outta microfiber! :grinno: )



Indeed... detail on, Ted!
 
66#1 said:
My parent's neighbor always said "my car next" for years and years whenever I washed my car when I was living at home. It annoyed the crap out of me!! The poor guy passed away the other day, and now I kind of miss hearing him say that.
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- My landlord used to say this. She loved it the day she came out to an unexpectedly gleaming clean car.



- I had a big city bus driver pull up in the bus and say "Me next! You can skip the top if you want!". That was funny!



- My wife's friend who drives a Jeep Wrangler often comes over when I'm detailing the cars. She said "me next" and I said "give me the keys and I'll do it while you're here". She hadn't washed the car for _9 months_. After a nice clay, klasse, P21S job, it was beautiful. She hasn't washed it since (3 months ago).



Oh well, it's good to do nice things for people.
 
edsarkiss said:
She hadn't washed the car for _9 months_. After a nice clay, klasse, P21S job, it was beautiful. She hasn't washed it since (3 months ago).
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That p*sses me off. It's one thing when you get paid to do the job, but when you restore someone's car for free, they should appreciate it enough to wash it at least every couple weeks or something.
 
White95Max said:
That p*sses me off. It's one thing when you get paid to do the job, but when you restore someone's car for free, they should appreciate it enough to wash it at least every couple weeks or something.
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It doesn't bother me a bit. I knew that me "doing a number" on her car would not change her in the slightest. It was good practice!
 
wannafbody said:
the bright side is no washed induced marring
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:LOLOL



Some of these comments are pretty funny. The other day in the communal garage one of my neighbors said to me, "I'm glad you clean your car so much, I always know where to find you".
 
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