I would say that most of the population merely uses their vehicles as transportation. Most do not even take the time to wax their cars with Turtle wax.
To wax or not - Morning Call
For those of you in the detailing business, you really have an untapped market.
Thirty years ago, 50 percent of American car owners waxed their cars, according to #### Koeth, vice president of strategic planning for car-care products company Meguiar's. Today, the number of car owners not waxing their vehicles is as high as 79 percent, he says. .
I cried on the inside....I don't get it, I simply don't.
Maybe it's because I've always been taught to take car of my cars (even my Power Wheels got washed on Saturday morning by yours truly), so I don't see why it's so hard to take care of them. It's a large investment, why do people let their cars get trashed?
:rant: and maybe it's because I'm young and overly obsessed with detailing and keeping a clean car, but it drives me up the wall to see people say "Cleaned my car!!!
". If you would've keep a month's load of clothes in the back seat and washed it maybe even bi weekly, it wouldn't have this complete transformation when you clean it. And who thought that giving teenagers black cars was a good idea? Heck before ANYONE can buy a black car, they have to sign a waver outlining a cleaning maintenance plan, because the car will turn grey over the period of ownership and people like us will look at it and die a little inside.
And then it becomes "I don't have any money to get it cleaned"....as if pedicures and manicures and tanning don't cost money? I suppose it all boils down to priorities...
"But it'll just get dirty anyway..."...and the tan will fade and the pedicures and manicures will look bad as well, and that'll get redone in a heart beat, because fashion police forbid they venture out in public with bad nails....:rant:
I dunno. I just take offence to it somewhat easily. It's something I need to fix. Before I had picked up the polisher and did everything by hand, just claying, Meguair's Cleaner Wax and NXT 2.0, my friends would all comment "Oh my gosh! Your car is so clean...and nice!" Now I moved on to machine polishing and onto the forums, it makes me look at everything different. And they know I do this, and I like doing it. Only one friend has followed through and actually paid me to spruce up their car. If you don't want it done, just tell me straight up. I don't like excuses, and neither does anyone else. Either follow through and get it done, or don't talk about how dirty your car is around me.
I gotta get me a cold class of Arnold Palmer iced tea-lemonade...I'm all worked up now.
