For those that believe detailing is a waste of time

Saytan said:
maybe it's me, but as long as my car looks presentable (which is not the same thing as a showroom++ shine - a few decent meguiars products, and a bit of effort = presentable) that's me happy - all the important stuff with it goes on when i cant see the paintwork anyway.
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What do you drive?
 
Saytan said:
the exercise that goes on at the start of the thread makes an additional point of interest. it's now possible, for a few hundred pounds, to turn a car that has had a hard life, and been mistreated, into an utterly mint example, at least visually. how long before the less honest traders start to clock onto this?
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This has been going on forever in the motor trade.

"Detailing" to this extreme has also been going on forever. However, with the intarweb, and forums like this, we're just seeing it more often.
 
[TW]Fox;10478031 said:
You did your MR2 properly, didn't you? ie, it was polished using more than 30 minutes and some Turtle Wax.

As a result, I still see it around here. It's still IMMACULATE. Years later..
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I actually did the MR2 by hand. Once per year I'd clean the paint with Meguiars paint cleanser, then polish with Autoglym Super Resin, then seal with Meguiars NXT wax.

When I got the Elise I bought a Porter Cable but as yet I've only really done the CTR and MGF with it, no need to do the Elise as it's swirl free anyway (it was previously detailed by Miracle Detail before I bought it)
 
[TW]Fox;10478332 said:
Is it any wonder, therefore, that you see no value on keeping your car mint? I suspect your opinion would be a bit different had you just spent thousands on your new 911 Turbo..
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there is a line between clean and obsessive. i sit on the "clean" side of it. as of next week, when i own a car that's worth more than my shoes, i will put in the effort. i will buy good shampoos and polishes, and i will apply them with care. when you're holding a torch to your paint in a darkened room to find imperfections, you've gone too far.
 
Saytan said:
there is a line between clean and obsessive. i sit on the "clean" side of it. as of next week, when i own a car that's worth more than my shoes, i will put in the effort. i will buy good shampoos and polishes, and i will apply them with care. when you're holding a torch to your paint in a darkened room to find imperfections, you've gone too far.
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He's holding a torch to the paint to find imperfections becuase they are not visible inside a garage.

He could, instead, park the car in direct sunlight but you dont tend to get direct sunlight inside garages, hence the use of a torch.

Honestly...
 
[TW]Fox;10478395 said:
He's holding a torch to the paint to find imperfections becuase they are not visible inside a garage.

He could, instead, park the car in direct sunlight but you dont tend to get direct sunlight inside garages, hence the use of a torch.

Honestly...
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these imperfections are showing under a torchlight in the pitch dark. they're not what you'd call apparent in the photo of the car in natural light
 
Saytan said:
these imperfections are showing under a torchlight in the pitch dark. they're not what you'd call apparent in the photo of the car in natural light
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I said 'direct sunlight'.

We dont get much of it in winter. Park the car on a bright summers day and you'll need no torch. It's not a bright summers day, he's in a garage, hence he needs the torch.
 
so portable suns DO exist then ;)


that car had 11 1/2 hours of machine polishing performed on it. i reckon a decent, if slightly more honest finish could be had in less than half of that? i think that's where the difference lies.
 
But the results, even now, were well worth it.

Still, you are a sad sad man and you should instead have driven around in it clean but covered in swirly messy scratches. Becuase thats cool.
 
slightly less perfect...

i honestly get the impression that people are competing now to say "my car is cleaner than yours"... and down that road lies the route to concours competition and a beard.
 
Saytan said:
so portable suns DO exist then ;)


that car had 11 1/2 hours of machine polishing performed on it. i reckon a decent, if slightly more honest finish could be had in less than half of that? i think that's where the difference lies.
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Well to be frank you are talking out of your behind then, BMW paint is very very hard, so it DOES take a bloody long time do.

If i had a M5 id certainly have no qualms about spending 11 hours cleaning it,once its done, its done.
 
and i'm *not* calling anyone sad... i'm merely an outsider, seeking to gain wider understanding. i'm sure each and every one of you knows someone who does something that you see as needless, but that they enjoy and brings them happiness.
 
Saytan said:
and i'm *not* calling anyone sad... i'm merely an outsider, seeking to gain wider understanding. i'm sure each and every one of you knows someone who does something that you see as needless, but that they enjoy and brings them happiness.
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True, for example we are here on a forums, which has people who stick windows and lights into a PC case:p
 
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