dumb stuff thats happened during detailing

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So I know im not the only one that has had crazy/dumb things happen while cleaning up the car. So tonight my girlfriend came over and wanted her car washed so i went ahead and washed it while she helped. we have a somewhat gravel driveway and for some reason she wanted to walk around barefoot. Well after we are done and I wipe down the car with my almost BRAND new cobra microfiber she asks for it. I give it to her thinking a must of not dryed it all and what do you know. She wipes off the muddy water/ pebbles off her feet with it :eek: guess i just have another interior towel now.


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oh no...is she still your girlfriend today???? Ha ha, just kidding - hopefully you explained to her what she did wrong, :-)
 
I think she should buy the next batch of towels. lol
 
I would loved to have seen the look on your face and heard the conversation that immediately followed. :p
 
maddenbowler said:
So I know im not the only one that has had crazy/dumb things happen while cleaning up the car. So tonight my girlfriend came over and wanted her car washed so i went ahead and washed it while she helped. we have a somewhat gravel driveway and for some reason she wanted to walk around barefoot. Well after we are done and I wipe down the car with my almost BRAND new cobra microfiber she asks for it. I give it to her thinking a must of not dryed it all and what do you know. She wipes off the muddy water/ pebbles off her feet with it :eek: guess i just have another interior towel now.


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That is funny! I think the thing I hate most is when someone taps into your detailing supplies in the garage and takes them inside for house use. I can never seem to keep glass cleaner around, its always missing and then I find it under the sink. Same thing with leather cleaner....You feel like saying... Get Your Own! :D
 
Meghan said:
That is funny! I think the thing I hate most is when someone taps into your detailing supplies in the garage and takes them inside for house use. I can never seem to keep glass cleaner around, its always missing and then I find it under the sink. Same thing with leather cleaner....You feel like saying... Get Your Own! :D
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OH NO! :eek:

Dwayne said:
I would loved to have seen the look on your face and heard the conversation that immediately followed. :p
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Me too! :iagree:

How about this one. A day or two after a full 3 step correction, seal and wax, a friend of mine just rinsed and dried his car... no soap, no mit, just sheeting method then dry with thin crappy MF's. He added swirls all over. :buffing::buffing:
 
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maddenbowler said:
So I know im not the only one that has had crazy/dumb things happen while cleaning up the car. So tonight my girlfriend came over and wanted her car washed so i went ahead and washed it while she helped. we have a somewhat gravel driveway and for some reason she wanted to walk around barefoot. Well after we are done and I wipe down the car with my almost BRAND new cobra microfiber she asks for it. I give it to her thinking a must of not dryed it all and what do you know. She wipes off the muddy water/ pebbles off her feet with it :eek: guess i just have another interior towel now.
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Uh, may I ask you a question? What color is her hair? LMAO!!!!! :D
 
A4 1.8tqm said:
How about this one. A day or two after a full 3 step correction, seal and wax, a friend of mine just rinsed and dried his car... no soap, no mit, just sheeting method then dry with thin crappy MF's. He added swirls all over. :buffing::buffing:
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Ha. That one is even worse than mine. At least mine was just one towel and not hours worth of my time.
 
SRHTX said:
Uh, may I ask you a question? What color is her hair? LMAO!!!!! :D
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actually she is a brunette---- she just doesnt know anything about car detailing stuff---- I informed her afterwards lol
 
Just a towel. lol My x-wife left the keys hanging in the trunk lock of a brand new 1986 Trans Am that was 3 months old with 5000 dollars worth of new installed sound equipment. I woke up the next day and walked out the door to go to work and NO CAR. Found it 4 days later total ripped apart. Insurance fixed it. No money for sound equipment. No that is not why she is an Ex-wife. It was a lot of other majors. That was 1. lol
 
My story isn't as bad as belcherm58's, but its still pretty bad.

When detailing my car 2 weeks ago my girlfriend thought the large garbage bag with nothing but towels in it was a trash bag and threw some steel wool I used to clean her exhaust with in it. She never told me and I washed the MF towels in the washer and nearly #### myself when there was TOOOONS of small metal hairs interwoven in between ALL my MF towels I washed. I had to throw away 15 MF towels because of that mistake. ARGH!!!
 
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MDg35 said:
My story isn't as bad as belcherm58's, but its still pretty bad.

When detailing my car 2 weeks ago my girlfriend thought the large garbage bag with nothing but towels in it was a trash bag and threw some steel wool I used to clean her exhaust with in it. She never told me and I washed the MF towels in the washer and nearly #### myself when there was TOOOONS of small metal hairs interwoven in between ALL my MF towels I washed. I had to throw away 15 MF towels because of that mistake. ARGH!!!
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She owes ya. LOL
 
I detailed a friend's car a few weeks ago. While she was watching me work on her car, I gave her a quick education on car care. When the car was done, I gave her some products - including car wash soap, a MF sponge, a bucket with Grit Guard, various MF towels for various purposes, etc.

Three days later, she announced that she washed her car. When I asked how she liked the soap, she said she left it at her parent's house so she used Dawn instead.

Ugh. Obviously she wasn't listening to me when I said why not to use anything other than car wash soap...
 
This just goes to show you why we have forums, got to educate people, I remember back in my day I washed the car with dish soap and dried with a beach towel. We all had to come from somewhere...
 
I had a friend who once used Comet to wash his car and wanted to know what happened to the shine? lol Come a long way since the 70's. I use to put Pledge on the vinyl and transmission fluid on the tires. When Armor All came out, that was like Wolfgang.
 
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