Hiya fellas!
What a day yesterday - and although I can always put a positive spin on things, it wasn't what I hoped it would be.
Basically, since I like to keep things organized, I'll kind of list a few bullet points as they come to mind - but
FIRST AND FOREMOST thank you to everyone! 
1. Although the
Corvette Grand Sport was garaged... I'm in Ohio, and yesterday it was in the teens, and much worse with the wind, and THERE WAS
NO HEAT of any sort
2. I had never been hired to do a 'wheels only' detail, and ended up being vastly inaccurate in my estimated time to complete the project. It took four
hours,
WITH an assistant (partially because the owner stayed out there
the... entire... time... making distracting pointless small-talk and taking our attention away from where it was needed and what we were being
PAID FOR)
3. After the first hour
I could no longer feel my feet, and my hands weren't far behind
4. THERE WAS
NO, ZERO, ZILCH lighting in the garage - literally, NOT
A BULB was operational... so I had to have my assistant hold an extremely strong blinding light next to me to offer any sort of illumination whatsoever (seriously,
like detailing in a freezing dungeon)
5. The GrandSport, although nice, did have cosmetic issues aplenty that were obvious and very apparent as light hit the paint - yikes,
I didn't say a thing however because the vehicle already sold, and I didn't want to make any waves... as the owner was already EXTREMELY excitable (do most Covette owners of a car that is basically worth around $20-30k max ((it sold for $24)) believe they have a Pagani Zonda R crafted from carbon fiber!?
All they did was talk about something called the "Bowtie" award for HOURS - yeah, this is 16 years old, scratched to high heaven, and has some mold on the convertible top - get over yourself)
6. THE WHEELS: The sole reason why I went over there ended up being a bit moot to a degree, I say that because the wheels were already
somewhat 'clean,' and sure my final work revealed a new very improved visual appeal, didn't create any sort of
dramatically massive difference.
-- The owner politely argued with, and talked-over me, the entire time
refuting the fact they were painted wheels, and rather clung tightly to the fact they were powder-coated
-- Any car that is knocking on 2 decade's door will have some issues, but they seemed to perhaps think that having this Vette
parked for years, and years, in a damp garage with zero heat, would be remedied by my 4 hours of cleaning and polishing (with the wheels STILL on the car no less), and continued to drone on about the 'spots' on the interior of the wheels (basically it was affixed deposits and brake-dust and rust etc that was barely noticeable visually unless under direct light)
-- The wheels themselves were scratched, scratched, and
then scratched some more, gee it was almost like there were painted!?
Weird.
-- Lastly, the very first thing
I ask upon arrival was if the wheels could be removed, and they said "No, there hasn't even even been a tool put on the lug-nuts,let alone removed." I wanted to SCREAM, "You don't have a Bugatti! The Lug Nuts have plastic covers on them anyway, let me take them off the car to get a much better result and SAVE TIME!"
I learned several, very, important, lessons! It's odd, after 11 years detailing in some shape or another, I'm still learning lessons. I guess that's alright, as countless millionaires and CEOs all write books about how they learned things after 30 years running a Fortune-500 company.
I need to recalibrate my business practices, and reserve the right to change my pricing upon VISUAL INSPECTION OF A VEHICLE, and also, set MY OWN rules for detailing beforehand (
ex: "I
will have to take the wheels off, or I cannot accept this job," or "Is the
garage lit and heated even to some degree so
I don't risk pneumonia over a few dollars?" or perhaps "I work much better and more efficiently when I am able to perform my job you hired me to do in solace with my assistant, so I can offer you a better end-result by focusing my attention where it belongs, your car, not idle fraternizing." aka - LEAVE ME ALONEEEEEEEE)
In closing...
I didn't get a single picture with my cell phone. Honestly, after being talked-over, bored to death by the owner (
which was nothing more than her flimsy attempt to stay there to examine every move we made like the Gestapo), kept from doing my job, forced to listen to life-long stories and pretend to be interested, not being able to feel my toes at ALL, and working in an other-wise pitch black garage as the winter wind howled outside... I just wanted to leave; plus...
the garage looked like an episode of hoarders, and would not make a single decent photo anyway.
Seriously though, as far as this wonderful awesome forum goes, THANKS AGAIN GUYS! If it wasn't for your guidance, I would have used Meg's Degreaser to looser road-grime off the wheels, and that may have been bad (?). I would still like to know if those little brown sports are removable?
HAVE A GREAT MONDAY! 
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