Neighbor Hosed Down My SUV...WTH?

capnp72 said:
Why is it threads like this get many, many more responses than a thread from someone asking for help??
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Cos a thread of asking for help, you'll just get a link and you have to go read it yourself, followed by even more questions.

Why? Probably cos they have answered the question a million times...
 
If this is a help thread we that know the answer should start "helping" not just copy/paste links. Just saying...
 
02xtreme07SS said:
Brother-in-law




This is a 'help' thread...think of it as a cry for moral support. We've all been there. Finish detailing your car, freak rain storm rolls through and undoes what you just work so hard to do.
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usually its just enough rain for a dust cloud to stick to the car.

on another note how he feels about his freshly detailed work would be the same as if he dumped his wash water, grit and all, onto the neighbor's petunias. thinking that the "phosphates" content would actually contribute to the growth and development of her plants.
 
ixnod said:
usually its just enough rain for a dust cloud to stick to the car.

on another note how he feels about his freshly detailed work would be the same as if he dumped his wash water, grit and all, onto the neighbor's petunias. thinking that the "phosphates" content would actually contribute to the growth and development of her plants.
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Haha petunias haha
 
In the grand scheme of things, there really isn't anything that can be done about. Sure, I could talk to her until I'm blue in the face and she may or may not care, which is fine. I have more respect for myself and for others than to do anything to 'even the score', so we'll just go on co-existing.
 
I used to visit a client's office in the SanFernando Valley and the only places to park are on the street.
He had a neighbor that was always yelling at people "Don't park in front of MY house. It's MINE!!!) Then she would turn on her parkway sprinklers so they would drown anyone parking there.
So one day I knew I was going to pay him a visit. So I brought all my car washing stuff with me.
Pulled up in front of her house and sure enough, she turned on the sprinklers. I waited until my car was soaked, pulled forward into my client's driveway, soaped down the car and gave it a quick wash. (not a two bucket job, I was just trying to annoy her), pulled back in front of the ticked off woman's house for a free rinse. Then back into my customer's driveway for a guzzler dry off. She was standing out on her porch the entire time, madder than hell.:autowash:
Next time I visited my customer she did not turn her sprinklers on me.

Moral of the story? I can't think of one.
 
oldmodman said:
I used to visit a client's office in the SanFernando Valley and the only places to park are on the street.
He had a neighbor that was always yelling at people "Don't park in front of MY house. It's MINE!!!) Then she would turn on her parkway sprinklers so they would drown anyone parking there.
So one day I knew I was going to pay him a visit. So I brought all my car washing stuff with me.
Pulled up in front of her house and sure enough, she turned on the sprinklers. I waited until my car was soaked, pulled forward into my client's driveway, soaped down the car and gave it a quick wash. (not a two bucket job, I was just trying to annoy her), pulled back in front of the ticked off woman's house for a free rinse. Then back into my customer's driveway for a guzzler dry off. She was standing out on her porch the entire time, madder than hell.:autowash:
Next time I visited my customer she did not turn her sprinklers on me.

Moral of the story? I can't think of one.
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Hahahahahaha that is just AWESOME!!! :xyxthumbs:
 
I feel you on this one. I had just washed and waxed my car and pulled it into the alley to move another car down it. Well he goes out and fires up his mower and blows grass clippings all over it and IN it, since the windows were down. I had a little talk with him, and he just looked at me like I was speaking Korean, and his quote was "well what was I supposed to do?"
I told him to have a good day and walked away. I wanted nothing more to do with him. He also likes to put his power on "find oil" mode during the summer, when it hasn't rained in two weeks, and dirt fog after all our vehicles have been washed.
He also pressure washed his white painted carport, which ran all over our less than a week old resealed blacktop. Another time he drove through the wet sealer out front, even though we had put out cones.

Does this make you feel better, knowing your neighbor isn't quite like mine?
 
Was in on purpose? Likely not.
Was it ignorant, (not knowing your position on the matter RE possible water spots)?
I'd say so!

Is there REALLY any way possible that you would have "diminished value"? Are you KIDDING ME!?!?

She sees you washing your car literally all the time. (As you've said, at least weekly.) Are you using water from the hose? (Or is it RO water? ) Reason I mention it is to her, and everyone else for the most part (even most everyone on AG) hose water is hose water is hose water. Sure, some is hard, some soft, etc. but it's still hose water. If she sees you using it then she isn't thinking it's actually going to damage your car. You wouldn't be using it otherwise. (At least in her mind.)

Now she may not know that you are carefully drying it each and every time it gets a drop of moisture on it. Could be time to show her. But then again... she doesn't have a car. Man that is WEIRD! If you have a 3 car garage I'm just assuming she's got at least a 2 car garage. That is a waste of a perfectly good garage. :laughing:

Heck... earlier last week I washed my G35 (well more like foamed it then rinsed) and my freaking wife was blowing the driveway with the backpack blower! She was actually up by the street (driveway is long enough to park 7~8 cars between the front corner of the house and the street, and then it's a side facing 3-car garage with tons of turn around space. Enough to park another 10 cars at least.) but kept coming down towards the car. By the time she got to where I'd been washing she started going all around the car, not coming within 15' but I was SCREAMING for her to get the H outta' there!

I ended up washing the car a SECOND time!
Never can use the foam gun too much IMHO. :laughing:

Now the phobia towards ONR I seriously do NOT understand. Get your ONRWW and go to town. The more the merrier. :D

One more thing.... if it's parked in the driveway all the time.... what in the world do you do when it rains???????? Surely you don't run outside with a flyswatter and try to smack all the rain away. :laughing:

Which reminds me. My friend Mike used to have a fairly nice lake boat. Not a dedicated ski boat, but a nice cruiser, 20 footer. We went up one Saturday for a day of cruising the lake, swimming and cooking out. We went in together and rented a campsite (rather than using the day park area) so we'd have our own space to go. So we took the cars there and parked them and went about our day. About half way through the day we decided to go back to the cove and grill out.

We get to the cove and Mike stops the boat almost DEAD IN THE MIDDLE and throws out the anchor. I look at the depth finder and it's 6 feet deep! WTH Mike? He says it's to protect the boat, rocks and stuff on the bottom.

So we wade/swim to the shore, dry off, and go on about our grilling. Afterwards we're hanging out, about to go back out and it clouds up really bad. Before you know it, it's raining cats and dogs. We're all huddled beneath the picnic shelter for about a minute and it's really pouring, I mean it's freaking RAINING!

About then, Mike and his wife run to the Grand Cherokee (while me and my wife just look at each other wondering what in the world is going on). Well here they come, WITH THE BOAT COVER in their arms!

I'm like "Mike, what in the world are you doing? The boat is fine, right? It's got a bilge pump, even this amount of rain isn't going to make it sink." They grabbed a float and put the boat cover on it and started SWIMMING out to the boat, a good 75' away from shore.

By now it'd been all of 5 minutes tops, and it was lightening all around. Yet these two FOOLS were swimming out to the middle of the cove with aluminum poles in their hands. Sure enough they get out there and put the cover on the boat just as if it were in his garage. (Yes, the boat got the garage and the cars parked outside, BOTH of them because the boat was parked sideways.)

When they get back I asked what made them do that in a freaking rain and lightening storm? His reply; "I can't let the boat get wet." I $hit you not! He looked at me with a straight face and told me that the BOAT couldn't get wet. :eek:

I reminded him that BY DESIGN, boats are SUPPOSED to get wet. Then started laughing. He didn't find it funny. :laughing: I asked why it couldn't get wet and he said he didn't want stuff falling in it from the trees. "DUDE, there isn't a tree within SEVENTY FIVE FEET of that boat, it's in the middle of the freaking cove!"

So.... I guess if Mike's boat couldn't get wet, then your SUV shouldn't either. ;)

(btw, They had to swim back out there and retrieve the cover after the shower passed.) :rolleyes:
 
I thought you were going to say your SUV was hosed down with acid or gasoline but just water? BORING.
 
For what it's worth, rain is rain. I deal with it. But I'm one of those guys that washes regardless of the forecast. Rain on Monday? I'm still washing on the weekend. Not only is it therapy, but I'd rather get the past week's funk off before the next round comes.

I don't mind it getting wet. I actually enjoying watching the beading of the Powerlock. I agree it's designed to get wet, but I don't let it air dry if I'm washing. I have a Master Blaster for that. I rarely ever have any water spots after washing due to careful drying. Sure it happens, but they are isolated and easily dealt with. The hood from her poor aim with a hose is another animal.

As far as her place, no garage at all. In this area of NorCal, you rarely see people use their garage for a car. Most are either converted to living space or end up looking like a storage locker. She had a car once, it sat in the same spot parked in the street for 3 months without moving. It was a rolling turd. Her feelings about vehicles are pretty clear and I accept it, for her vehicles, not mine.
 
That's the thing. 90% of people don't give a damn about cars or what they look like. I get it, too. That's like my neighbor getting mad about me walking my dog on the sidewalk in front of his house. He might hate dogs but I love them and I get it. People are just crappy. Plain and simple.

P.S. TBSS are awesome. My buddy has one and it RIPS.
 
"rolling turd"... Me thinks ya' need new neighbors! :laughing:

Oh I hear ya' on not wanting it to get wet.... seriously! I can count on one hand the (real) rainstorms my G has been in since I bought it new in 2006. (And have 2½ fingers left over) Heck it's only been in any type of rain 7 times, and that was maybe getting caught in a passing brief shower or something, or even worse hitting a wet spot in the road after no shower was left.

But at least I don't have a BOAT that can't get wet. ;)

Visited Mike a while back to do his wife's Lexus. Went riding in his Polaris and I just couldn't believe it.... he actually went in the MUD with it! I yelled at him to the point that he was startled. He was like what is wrong? I said, "Well Jesus dude, you had a boat that couldn't get wet, I just never figured you would have a 4-wheeler that you let get muddy." :laughing:
 
This reminds me of the thread in a Porsche forum about the effects of driving in the rain and its effects on the cars value
 
ziggo99 said:
i feel you on this one. I had just washed and waxed my car and pulled it into the alley to move another car down it. Well he goes out and fires up his mower and blows grass clippings all over it and in it, since the windows were down. I had a little talk with him, and he just looked at me like i was speaking korean, and his quote was "well what was i supposed to do?"
i told him to have a good day and walked away. I wanted nothing more to do with him. he also likes to put his mower on "find oil" mode during the summer, when it hasn't rained in two weeks, and dirt fog after all our vehicles have been washed.
He also pressure washed his white painted carport, which ran all over our less than a week old resealed blacktop. Another time he drove through the wet sealer out front, even though we had put out cones.

Does this make you feel better, knowing your neighbor isn't quite like mine?
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lmao!!!!
 
Dimetera413 said:
That's the thing. 90% of people don't give a damn about cars or what they look like. I get it, too. That's like my neighbor getting mad about me walking my dog on the sidewalk in front of his house. He might hate dogs but I love them and I get it. People are just crappy. Plain and simple.

P.S. TBSS are awesome. My buddy has one and it RIPS.
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I knew I wasn't alone. Yes, I love my TBSSs dearly.


cardaddy said:
"rolling turd"... Me thinks ya' need new neighbors! :laughing:

Oh I hear ya' on not wanting it to get wet.... seriously! I can count on one hand the (real) rainstorms my G has been in since I bought it new in 2006. (And have 2½ fingers left over) Heck it's only been in any type of rain 7 times, and that was maybe getting caught in a passing brief shower or something, or even worse hitting a wet spot in the road after no shower was left.

But at least I don't have a BOAT that can't get wet. ;)

Visited Mike a while back to do his wife's Lexus. Went riding in his Polaris and I just couldn't believe it.... he actually went in the MUD with it! I yelled at him to the point that he was startled. He was like what is wrong? I said, "Well Jesus dude, you had a boat that couldn't get wet, I just never figured you would have a 4-wheeler that you let get muddy." :laughing:
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Yes, we are looking to move this year. We're finally putting one of our investment properties up for sale and once it moves, we will be able to take the next step. Neither of my TBSSs has ever seen rain. We have a pretty short rainy season here and they spend the majority of their time in the garage anyway. My wife is starting to win me over on seeing them as pointless to have....but for the time...I still love them.

HAHAHA, when I was younger, I would wax my ATV. In hindsight, I probably did more damage to the plastics than good.


Billy Baldone said:
To be honest, I would use some Round Up on a handful of plant/flowers in her yard.
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That's the thing....there isn't anything remotely close or even in the direction of where my SUV was parked in the driveway. That's why this is so baffling. It wasn't an errant overspray, there had to be a reason.


banzaitoyota said:
This reminds me of the thread in a Porsche forum about the effects of driving in the rain and its effects on the cars value
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Whoa, whoa, whoa....I'm not that crazy......yet.
 
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I have a neighbor that every Tuesday night and Wednesday morning his sprinkler goes off. It sprays my driveway. I told him and he said get a bucket and wash it. I figured instead of fighting with him. (He is a snowbird only here about 3 weeks out of 52) I just move it every Tuesday night to the other side.
 
It's a female sonic!!!

Just a little "smack, smack" is necessary. You always want to start with the least aggressive product
Haha
 
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