The wife - "You are not touching MY CAR!

Clearly she doesnt trust you but who cares? Dont do her car, which leaves more time for your car.
 
I just want to add that my wife would have the same reply as I did!
 
aim4squirrels said:
Just leave it alone. She's clearly not interested in you touching the car in any way, shape, or form.

You aren't going to surprise her in any positive way if she told you not to touch it and you go ahead and do it anyways.

Despite any and all good meaning intentions, I always get the cold shoulder if I was told specifically not to do something and I go and do it anyways. Even if the end result is a net positive, it doesn't matter to women if their opinion/wishes are ignored.
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Great advice. In the end she's the one losing out anyway.
 
Sleeping on the sofa is not my idea of fun. Beside the fact that no matter what you got to respect her wishes. You didn't get 49 years by being a moron.
 
Try again later after the "honeymoon" phase of her having the new car has worn off. When civilians (non detailing professionals / enthusiasts) get a new car, they can be somewhat irrational about it - with great reason. When the swirls really start to appear from her taking it through the car wash, maybe ask her of she wants to try fixing it herself. Maybe it's something you can show her, and do together.
 
you are the one that knows your wife the best ... but, I think I would do what she wants since this is a very small issue to go to war over......
 
aim4squirrels said:
Just leave it alone. She's clearly not interested in you touching the car in any way, shape, or form.

You aren't going to surprise her in any positive way if she told you not to touch it and you go ahead and do it anyways.

Despite any and all good meaning intentions, I always get the cold shoulder if I was told specifically not to do something and I go and do it anyways. Even if the end result is a net positive, it doesn't matter to women if their opinion/wishes are ignored.
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^^^Perfect advice here--especially that last line. Doesn't make logical sense to us b/c we pay attention to the "net positive" piece of that statement and ignore the "their opinion/wishes are ignored" part.
 
Wow -- so many responses. Rather than reply to each one I thought I would respond to all with this response:

Sorry --- I forgot to state that this is our ONLY DD! Oh well, IM a New-B!

We have been talking about car wash induced swirls for a few months. The paint is in good condition -- but obviously needs to be clayed and waxed since the past winter here on the central Maine coast was extremely unkind to any vehicle that moved!

We ran our DD through a Soft Touch car wash a week ago -- and with the super-duper Turtle Wax application included in the car wash - it was amazing how glossy the Camry finish came out. BUT -- we still have swirls on practically ever panel. I would call them plentiful, light swirls.

I bought the Wolfgang PC7424XP package -- learned later it might have been better to buy separate pieces since some of the included products are only 8 ozs. Even so, I can't wait to get to work with the products I have - enough to do the entire wash, clay, swirl removal, FG and Fuzion wax process!

I will try some Megs products from local stores to see if a less invasive product will do the job.

If the "little woman" doesn't cave in -- if any of you have been married 49 years you probably know that every day is an adventure -- and there is ALWAYS a lot more to the story!

I have a brother here on the island who has a 15 year old pickup which I am sure he would let me practice on.

Lastly -- after reading and viewing a slew of Mike's articles and videos, I am very confident the results will be fantastic, after all he said something like "your car will look like is has been done by a professional!" I don't expect perfection right away -- but with all the articles on AG -- and all the posts on this forum --- it should be a great ride.

Any further suggestions as to your experiences, and products, processes, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
 
Why dont you go get a scrap panel from somewhere, tape off down the middle, and do to one half what you would do to the car.

When the moment is right, show it to her....

Give her the opportunity to see what you can do, without going against her wishes.
 
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