What Got You Here?

Trouble said:
Not as juicy as it appears. Back in the Detail City days members were only allowed to discuss 1 manufactures line of products. Anyone that mentioned another line was considered a Trouble maker and was soon shown the door
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I was here during the DC era and this simply isn't true. Even had sponsor nights in the Chat Room.
 
Trouble said:
It wasn't. That's why it died
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DC slowed down because Troy and Dwayne did not invest enough time to promote it (they had other full time jobs) and in a few occasions some newbies were scared off especially those that had opinions to the self-appointed moderators (not the official mods).
 
Bunky said:
I was a member of Detail City (the join date in my avatar) and also a member of the Proper Auto Care forum before PBMG formally acquired Detail City from Troy/Dwayne and then renamed it, brought in Todd when PBMG acquired what was left of PAC along with Blackfire brand. They merged the PAC content into AF.
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Same here. I still have a Detail City hat from Troy!
 
I wound up here after reading some stuff on detailed image. I think one of the writers there mentioned the site, so I came, lurked for a bit and signed up.
 
I got here after becoming interested in learning about new products as a result of reading the detailing forum on a BMW site. At that time I was pretty much wed to Zymol wax. Learned about Zaino on that site. Someone quoted a thread on AutoGeek which opened my eyes further and, in the natural progression, I found Autopia.
 
mnehls86 said:
Pretty much the same way for me. Except this is the 2nd forum I lurked on for a quite a while and got tired of not having access to all the pictures so finally signed up. Only reason I didn't sign up right away is because I never thought I would be very active on here and I didn't expect to get even more interested in detailing.
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The same, my first forum was detailingbliss.
 
Google led me here also. I did take a peek through several other forums myself but Autopia just had me hooked from the start I guess. I couldn't sign up fast enough.
 
I was here when it was DC and stayed during the transition (I think I needed to re-join though, don't remember). I'm suffering from CRS (Can't Remember Squat) and I don't remember how I found AGO, but I found MOL from the labels on their bottles. I still frequent all three, and I've gotta say that AF is pretty darn mellow compared to some
 
A detailing buddy and fellow forum member pointed me to Autopia. We were just shooting the sh1t while detailing our cars and he asked if I'd ever been to Autopia. I ended up lurking for a week or two before I joined up and started posting like a detailing nut.
 
I'm on the verge of retirement and I just purchased a black Kia Soul which I spent a lot of money on chrome to make it stand out.
Knowing black cars are the hardest to keep noticeably clean, I did a search, found this forum and haven't regretted it since.


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For me, I google'd detail sites and up popped Autopia:

1. I read about a DA type of machine (Porter Cable) for correcting auto paint
2. tried Menzerna polishes (Jeff S.)
3. bought a copy of GURU reports (Steve L.)
4. then Zaino sealants (Sal Z.)
5. 13 years later thank you for starting Autopia (David B.)!
 
Dear Friends

Y'all make me feel like a young sprig. We bought our Honda Odyssey van in October 2011 and I wanted to take exemplary care of it. I joined Odyssey forum odyclub.com and discovered Detailer's Domain, where i joined the Detailing Bliss forum. I found Autogeek from posts on Detailing Bliss, and someone on the Autogeek forum pointed me here.

I love internet forums. I'm a member of about 350-360 of them.
 
I moved from AGO to Autopia because there is more freedom here. I got a time out from AGO to "think about AGO and it's rules". I thought about their rules and Autopia gives its members more freedom to speak about detailing and supplies, plus Vega is a great guy.
 
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