Silly to detail a leased car?

I detail rentals ... great way to try out new products !!
 
Thanks so much for all the inspiring comments. Now I don't feel like I have over the top OCD for loving this hobby. This site is therapy. Rental? LOL
 
Yup, rental. Someone else still owns the vehicle and you pay them to drive it around for a contracted length of time. I always thought my old lease was no different than Avis, Hertz, Budget etc.

Yes, i considered it mine for the period of time i was "renting it" and as such kept it detailed because of pride.

But i always knew it was a rental.
 
2black1s said:
I'm the wrong person to ask... On day one, I once waxed (AIO), and applied a quick spray-on tire dressing to a rental car I had for two weeks on a business trip.
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I did the same thing while I had a rental for 2 weeks. I could not handle how dirty the glass was and the film on the outside. I could not remember the last time I drove a car without some sort of glass treatment.
 
pheerix said:
Imagery is vivid. Anyway, I see as practicing too. That's how I decided to try rinseless and waterless washing. Wanted to see if I could really maintain a new car solely with rinseless/waterless without marring it too bad and I have been pleasantly surprised and now a convert.
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Is your car garaged? I want to convert to Rinseless or Waterless for the winter but I only have an uncovered drive way and I don't cover my car with a car cover.
 
i had a Ram as a loaner while mine was in the body shop and i compounded, polished and waxed it. My wife says i have a issue,but for me it is what i like to do as a hobby.
 
If it's your pride and joy sure! Just remember to do a couple (or alot) of burnouts when you return it for kicks
 
I detail/clean my leased car all the time, and just did the wife's last weekend. I hate to ride around in a dirty car. I have to live with it for 3 years (at least) so I take care of it as if it were my own, which it might be one day.
 
parshooter said:
I detail/clean my leased car all the time, and just did the wife's last weekend. I hate to ride around in a dirty car. I have to live with it for 3 years (at least) so I take care of it as if it were my own, which it might be one day.
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Those are words a true detailer lives by.
 
I detailed a rental once. They sent me a check for doing so. LOL
(it was a long time ago so I don't remember how much)
 
I work for General Motors and we have this neat privilege where we can borrow retail cars for a week (that is to say cars in regular production). I got lucky and scored a Black 2015 CTS-V. I only had the car Wednesday to Tuesday but I brought it home, two bucketed it, hit it with Meg's 205 and did a quick coat with WGPS. Why? mostly, as the master says above, it is a bit of therapy to commune with a machine. Second, I am a usual driver of a Diesel Cruze so I sure as heck showed that thing off.

As far as a lease car - my wife is hard on her car. Stationary objects have a way of jumping out at her and she has never met a dirt road (with 5 ways to avoid) that she won't drive down. I like our cars to look at least nice if not neck snapping shiny. So I coated her car. It's ours for three years so why not make it easy to keep shiny?
 
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