Detailing matters

...more than most people realise

Any of y'all with Red GTIs, I feel your pain.
I detail my entire car though...

 

We don't use 'that' word here

 

nice shine, nice car. detailing means youre pretty gay though. hth

 

I'd prefer to put all that elbow action to better use

 

I can`t believe the car was really looking that bad...seems like a marketing set up to me... ...and I`m guessing you`ve already realised you mixed up driver`s and passenger side when describing the interior.

 

What a load of crap.

 

detailing rocks. its a science that i know little about but getting there slowly.

 

A science?

Surely you can throw a bucket of water over a car and then polish it!

 

yes mate, sure you can throw a bucket of water over your car and then polish it. not gunna do much good though really

 

Oh I don't know.
I can think of a handful of people of make a perfectly good living from washing & polishing cars.

 

yes washing and polishing them properly no doubt. not just chuk a buket of water over it and give it a polish.

 

i was round sheryl's today, went ape on her car, washed it, and polished it a lot, like ive done a million times in the past since i was a kid

not sure whether any 'detailing' was involved tho

 

would rather spend the time on other things right now... but if I had a mint mk2 valver I could probably get quite into detailing i think....

 

That's the point - that IS detailing!

 

I've been using a PC for about a year now and some of the cars I have done have come up amazingly well - I wouldn't class myself as an expert on detailing though some results of previous cars I have done:

Clio:


Golf:


Pug 206:

 

yes seraph mate. look at the amazing results john west bear has got there by just chuking a buket of water over the cars and giv them a polish. as its so easy would you come and do mine for me and make it look like the above please???? much appreciated, should only take you 15 minits tops.

 

I never said I could do it. I can't. Never claimed to.
I never commented on how easy it is / isn't either.
I've not commented on JWB's work either. Although the degree of attention above is no different from one of our regular valet's.

What I DID advocate, in a tongue in cheek manner too, was the common held view that 'detailing' is little more than a fancy type of washing/polishing/cleaning/repairing.

For most, it is NOT a distinct, discrete alternative, it is simply a 'degree' of attention given to making good a car.

Don't take my word for it either. Do a poll, see what most think.

 

a science? are you for real? detailing i simply cleaning your car to an obsessive degree. what a load of pants.

 

I can appreciate how good a car can be made after some 'detailing' but I have to ask myself every time, what is the point in our climate? If you lived in LA where it only rains a few times a year if you're lucky, then yeah fine. Go do some detailing. If you live in the UK & Ireland, just drive it. Then when it's dirty, wash it.

Maybe 2-4 times a year when you're going to a show or a meet give it a polish and seal the paint but why spend hundreds of pounds and hundreds of hours a year 'detailing' your car only to have a pigeon **** on it 5 minutes later.

 

Here's the results the last time I did some 'detailing', roughly this time last year.

Once a year is plenty for me