The wool has been pulled over the eyes...once again

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howareb

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I just got off the phone with my mother (who lives about 6 hours away), wishing her a "happy mom day". She informed me that she was getting a new car (well new to her), which was a 2005 Caddy CTS in black. She so proudly went on about the features and all of that stuff and then she then told me that the car comes with a clear coat finish, so you "never " have to wax it. I now, want to go on a manhunt and find this yahoo who told my mother this, to teach him a thing or two about cars.



Forgive me I have to vent so I am going to repeat it. This yahoo said that the car comes with a clear coat finish so you "never" have to wax it.



Luckily my mom is going to pay me a visit soon, so she will then be another person "skooled" in the ways of good exterior car care, so in the future she can tell these yahoos where to stick their idiotic comments.



I am afraid to ask for pics, but I hope that this does not turn out to be an 11 hour job. :waxing:



These types of dumb comments get under my skin.:mad:
 
Scott,



Yeah man it was the dealer (I forgot to write that in). Why would a dealer say such a stupid thing?





The lame part about it, is that my step dad then went and picked up a White CTS and they told him the same thing. My step-dad is a "car nut", so I am surprised that he believed it. I am trippin' over what correction I may have to do when I finally get a chance to work on these cars.
 
To be fair, and from the dealer's perspective, who stop seeing most cars once they are out of warranty, you could probably not wax a CC car for the four years or less (due to exceeding mileage) that a CTS would be under warranty and still have it look pretty good (maybe not by Autopian standards, but pretty good for car buyer/dealer standards). They couldn't say this in the old SS days...so, from a certain way of looking at it, the dealer could be accurate.



No, I'm not suggesting anyone do this. No, I'm not suggesting that dealers aren't lower than whale poop on the bottom of the ocean. I am saying that CC cars stay a lot better, a lot longer than SS cars, when you don't wax them.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
To be fair, and from the dealer's perspective, who stop seeing most cars once they are out of warranty, you could probably not wax a CC car for the four years or less (due to exceeding mileage) that a CTS would be under warranty and still have it look pretty good (maybe not by Autopian standards, but pretty good for car buyer/dealer standards). They couldn't say this in the old SS days...so, from a certain way of looking at it, the dealer could be accurate.



No, I'm not suggesting anyone do this. No, I'm not suggesting that dealers aren't lower than whale poop on the bottom of the ocean. I am saying that CC cars stay a lot better, a lot longer than SS cars, when you don't wax them.
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True. But then they usually try and sell their lifetime paint sealant.
 
When you’re done correcting these cars send your mom back to the dealer with a fake bill just to see their reaction. And make sure she calls him a liar.:furious: :angry
 
I've got an even better one for ya. I recently went to a dealer to look at a Ferrari 360 Modena. The salesman with the ponytail actually said this to me. "This car has such a down force created at high speeds that it could actually drive upside down like in a tunnel". I quickly got back in my car and left speed racer to live out the rest of his fantasies without me. Yikes.



Patrick
 
ptaylor_9849 said:
I've got an even better one for ya. I recently went to a dealer to look at a Ferrari 360 Modena. The salesman with the ponytail actually said this to me. "This car has such a down force created at high speeds that it could actually drive upside down like in a tunnel". I quickly got back in my car and left speed racer to live out the rest of his fantasies without me. Yikes.



Patrick
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Acutally he is right, I believe the Modena produces enough downforce that at a theroteical speed of 270 MPH it would drive upsidedown in a tunnel (I remember reading this somewhere).



I know F1 cars can drive upside down around 75.
 
TH0001 said:
Acutally he is right, I believe the Modena produces enough downforce that at a theroteical speed of 270 MPH it would drive upsidedown in a tunnel (I remember reading this somewhere).



I know F1 cars can drive upside down around 75.
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Hey 4 lane tunnels.:nervous2:, might cut down on cell phone talk.
 
TH0001 said:
Acutally he is right, I believe the Modena produces enough downforce that at a theroteical speed of 270 MPH it would drive upsidedown in a tunnel (I remember reading this somewhere).



I know F1 cars can drive upside down around 75.
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Yeah, but we're talking simply downforce compared to vehicle weight, not that you could really drive it upside down, right. Besides all the little things like the blood going to your head, and all the fluids in the car coming out vents or flowing away from pickups (even pickups/systems designed for high-g side loads may not work upside down) all you'd have to do is bump one light fixture on the ceiling of the tunnel and get a little air under the car and you'd be back driving on the floor of the tunnel on your head, LOL.
 
howareb said:
Scott,



Yeah man it was the dealer (I forgot to write that in). Why would a dealer say such a stupid thing?





The lame part about it, is that my step dad then went and picked up a White CTS and they told him the same thing. My step-dad is a "car nut", so I am surprised that he believed it. I am trippin' over what correction I may have to do when I finally get a chance to work on these cars.
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Isnt there some companies that dont even put CC on white cars?
 
gators241987 said:
Isnt there some companies that dont even put CC on white cars?
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There are quite a few single stage vehicles still being produced. Generally, non-metallic paint is usually single-stage.
 
I am not certain, but when clear coated paint first came out wasn't that supposed to be a selling point, that it would be zero maintnance?
 
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