Stupid things your "Detailer" has said (that made you get into detailing your own car)

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Come on it's only fair...:laughing:
"I'll just hit it with my magic wool pad and my secret compound and I can take away all those swirls I put in your paint"
 
I washed your car with Dawn dish washing detergent.............
 
when I was starting to detail for money I was going around to different shops checking out their setup. 3 kids were working on this white camry with dirty rags. It looked like crap...i mean NO shine.

I asked them what they were going to do to it and they said "we're done with it! we just put this wax on it" and pointed to these no name brand bottles.

So I showed them my audi and they said "it's clean but not as clean as we can get it" lol, no thanks!
 
BostonDetails said:
when I was starting to detail for money I was going around to different shops checking out their setup. 3 kids were working on this white camry with dirty rags. It looked like crap...i mean NO shine.

I asked them what they were going to do to it and they said "we're done with it! we just put this wax on it" and pointed to these no name brand bottles.

So I showed them my audi and they said "it's clean but not as clean as we can get it" lol, no thanks!
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reminds me of yesterday @ lunch - i head out for some Subway, and in the parking lot there's a setup with "$35 wash, wax, interior". Ok, give them the benefit of the doubt I pull closer..

They were using a modified 2BM method.... one on each side of car. 3 guys, 2 buckets, 2 yellow sponges, bathtowels

i politely declined.
 
... and we digress... back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Next up, more detailer fails...
 
"Oh, you have a Lamborghini, well that's gonna cost you a bundle because it has special paint"

Yea well, don't let the special door hit you in the ars on the way out
 
A "detailer" went up to me after I washed and waxed my car and said..

If you let me wax it it's gonna look sooo much better and sooo much shinier, not like that! Then got out a Turtle Wax compound can.

I dunno what shocked me more, seeing the TW can or that he just knocked off my finish. :bolt:
 
After a long winter my parents bought me a detail at a local shop, I was going to throw in some extra cash for some paint correction but was told my truck looked great didn't need anything else. I could still see swirls everywhere, and this was prior to my discovery of the autogeek world! Now I know better and handle it myself
 
It wasn't necessarily what someone said, its what someone did, that made me get into detailing.

I had an 08 Honda Accord EX and it was in the body shop to get some some work done from an accident. When I got the car back it had a TON of holograms in it. I didn't notice how bad it was until I got home. I took it back the next day and they "detailer" comes out with a polisher (I wanna say it was a Makita) and proceded to "try" to take out the holograms. Instead he put in more. I said forget it, I'll take care of it myself. Thats when I started doing some research and ended up picking up my PC7424XP.
 
I had a rocker panel repainted on my old silver BMW due to a curb accident at Dunkin Doughnuts. I went to a BMW body shop to get it re-sprayed. The car was silver, their painting looked grey. The body shop manager told me; "give it a month - see how it matches then". Like some how the color was going to change from grey to silver in a month. Never had them fix it, as I traded the car in that way.
 
The only time I ever paid to get a car detailed was when I was in Texas for a temporary job and bought a beater Ford Explorer that was previously owned by a contractor. The interior was pretty trashed. Since all my detailing supplies where still in transit I went to some drive-through express detail shop and paid for their $75 wash with interior detailing. They said it would cover a basic interior cleaning and vacuuming the carpets, as well as a regular car wash. They were pretty busy so I figured this must be the "go-to" place for detailing.

After it went through their mechanical car wash some guy proceeded to wipe Armor All over the entire interior. All it did was layer the dirt with shiny crap. They even coated my leather seats with it. I was so pissed. It actually looked worse then when I rolled up. I vowed NEVER to have any of my cars cleaned by anyone other then me from then on. A few years later I started Autowerx.
 
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