whats your detailing pet hate

fanadman1

i was just lookin around my friends car the last day he had spent hours hand polishing it
but he had not bothered opening the doors to remove al the polish out of the shuts and around the diesel filer cap and areas like this i dunno why it is but it really recks my head when people have put so much effort in and will not go the last bit to finnish it properly
this is my detailing pet hate whats yours ?

Curran

Pretty much on the same lines as yourself....not looking after the minor details...its those that make all the difference!
Like not applying tyre shine or similar.

AND people who polish and wax their car every week!!

gammygils

Polishing the inside of the windscreen & back window. You’d need double jointed & a contortionist.
I would love to just take them out
clean & polish them and put them back in. A job I hate

Mc Love

I can never get the windscreen perfect! Most annoying job, thats why I leave it til the finish!

Bird poo - its like they have a homing beacon!

Scortho

When I forget to rinse the wash mit and dump it straight into the clean bucket if SUds.

When I finish waxing the car and its late so I inevitably miss a patch of wax.
The next morning it's there staring at me.

fanadman1

gammygils wrote: »

Polishing the inside of the windscreen & back window. You’d need double jointed & a contortionist.
I would love to just take them out
clean & polish them and put them back in. A job I hate

windscreen is a terror of a job but at 6'4'' i just open the bootlid on my car to do the back window i know its no help in a proper saloon but it helps in my hatchback vectra

Toyotafanboi

wash the car, dry the whole thing. start to polish and bam!! a load of water runs out of a panel gap or the mirror casing and wets all the nice cured polish making it a **** to get off.

gammygils

fanadman1 wrote: »

windscreen is a terror of a job but at 6'4'' i just open the bootlid on my car to do the back window i know its no help in a proper saloon but it helps in my hatchback vectra

Ya. I used to do that when I had the Octavia. Did a great job.
I used to get into the boot on my knees. But now I have an A4. Actually polished the inside windows yesterday. Arms and wrists are killing me today

gammygils

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

wash the car, dry the whole thing. start to polish and bam!! a load of water runs out of a panel gap or the mirror casing and wets all the nice cured polish making it a **** to get off.

Ooooh! I hate when that happens. Pain in the ass. Or when at this time of year the dew starts to fall. And polishing the roof is a nightmare :mad:

MetzgerMeister

I find it especially annoying to do the inside of my rear windscreen. I have to let down the back of the seats and get my legs into the boot just to get an angle at which I can work!

To anyone who finds it hard to do the inside of their front/rear screens or glass in general, I use AutoGlym glass polish. Apply it with a micorfibre applicator (Meguiars EvenCoat applicator is what I use), let it haze then buff it off with a microfibre cloth. If you ensure you don't touch the glass with your hand, you're guaranteed a streak-free finish and you won't see the usual crap when the sun shines through.

166man

I hate when you finish the car and apply the tyre shine but forget to roll the car forward 6 inches to do the entire wheel and one part is still clearly not tyre shined!

A personal hate!

MetzgerMeister

Also, after finishing the wash stage on a car, take it for a drive to get the water out of the cracks etc. and come back to find a ring of rusty water from the brake discs around the inside of the alloy and on the face of the alloy :mad:

Victor Meldrew

Mc Love wrote: »

Bird poo - its like they have a homing beacon!

Tree sap as well. And the neighbour's cat has taken to climbing on the car (Bonnet, trunk and roof - it does not discriminate) as well as pooing on the lawn. I hate that cat and what it does to the bonnet's paintwork.

While the ten spots of Bird Poo a few hours after you've scrubbed the car just seems vindictive, the cat just seems to wants to break you down over time...

miller50841

Victor Meldrew wrote: »

Tree sap as well. And the neighbour's cat has taken to climbing on the car (Bonnet, trunk and roof - it does not discriminate) as well as pooing on the lawn. I hate that cat and what it does to the bonnet's paintwork.

While the ten spots of Bird Poo a few hours after you've scrubbed the car just seems vindictive, the cat just seems to wants to break you down over time...

Put anty climb paint all over the car cat will never be back or you may find it stuck to the bonnet:pac:

or

Wax the sh1t out of it and watch cat fly;)

Victor Meldrew

miller50841 wrote: »

Put anty climb paint all over the car cat will never be back or you may find it stuck to the bonnet:pac:

or

Wax the sh1t out of it and watch cat fly

If cats react like dogs to a lack of traction on hard surfaces, I'll just be inviting a lot of scrapes.

Water-pistol time again I think. When we had a tom-cat peeing everywhere and fighting, we resorted to spraying water on it.

Shooting a cat with a water pistol is soooo satisfying...

Mick F

Water pistol or pressure hose? :P