Club Arnage

Stumbled across this on another forum, seems rather excessive but hay ho. Nothing wrong with a bucket and sponge IMHO ;D

Enjoy the read or will it send you off to sleep.

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=54411

 

Got me snorring within seconds ::)

Me too.  What's even better are the reverential responses.   Yawn.

Ditto - got to pic 4, and that was it, just woke up now.

Unbelievable!

what a marvellous description

huh!

detailing?

huh?

I washed Lara the week before she went to France

dammit I forgot to take 700 pictures... :(

nowt wrong with a bit of detailing....

Although in future, I think I'll pay someone else to do it....far too much elbow grease goes in....

That said, taking 75 pictures of the sodding process it ridiculous....

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y119/BradRWills/Shiny.jpg)

5 days, 30 hours to clean a car. My "valet" lasted overnight due to dog hairs, but didnt look like that the next day..

I don't recall ever washing or detailing my last Laguna myself though I do take care to leave it out so the rain can do the job for me.  Though I think some did Tartiflette it when it went for a service.  I think they wanted to keep hte grease monkey's overalls clean.   ;D   What a nuisance that was I couldn't find the car when they delivered it back to the office.  I only found it by checking the Number plates.

t.

ok so i am one of the sad gits who enjoys and does detailing  ::)

decided to read it.

Fell asleep twice!!!

Enough is enough.

There is a guy who lives opposite me who spends ALL weekend cleaning his car. He takes the wheels off to polish the brake callipers. The best is he drys the lights with a hair dryer. One good thing it is like having your own security man in the close. ;D

Too much detail

To be fair it is the guys job, not as if he was just doing it for kicks, but to take so many pictures is quite very boring.

However if you read some of the responses one guy is nursing a semi after looking at the pictures which is very troubling.

It looks like it.

Having said that I did spend 2 hours cleaning the alloys on Saturday, but only because the front ones were black,(and the back ones silver)  On the basis that it was going to rain, there was no point in washing the rest of it (that one works most days).

My son has had his car nine months, and its still in showroom condition - well, it hasn't been touched since it left the showroom.

I have a cunning plan. It's called swapping the front wheels for the back ones

ive a car wax for winter / summer and autumn, polish for every occasion and polishes for each finish - ask no panic neil as he had to put stickers on it  :laugh: and they wouldnt stick ;)

Kev - did they come off OK?

Sorry Kev, but you set it up on the coconut shy. My wheelbarrow needs a good valetting too.

(http://www.custompc.co.uk/blogs/garethogden/files/turd-polish.jpg)

Yeh they came off but the car hasn't seen a sponge since. It's so filthy you can still see where the stickers were !!
 ( I saw the car at Sundays Breakfast Club meet )

yes neil :) piece of cake!

i know :p - want the commer doing aswell do you?

that is true - but ive just spent the last 2 hours cleaning it so im alright now ;)

can see a very faint like on the drivers door and rear bumper where they where but when i buff the car this weekend that will go :)

i've missed the picture of your car . . . what is it ??

Enough of all this rubbish!
When we left LM on Monday, the Cav was covered in marker pen, pink spray, ash, soot and possibly urine.
We travelled to Dinard in the "Colours" and parked up outside my fave hotel. By morning it was totally plastered in seagull droppings. Fantastic!
I removed the marker pen at services between St Malo and Le Havre... as some was a little rude ;)
Nail varnish remover seemed to work wonders, especially for the paint.
She has not been washed yet as its not September.
Cavvy loved LM... never has she had so much attention by drunken men.
Also, she has never had 2 oil changes in 1000 miles, as i split the sump on my drive after unloading all the kit... on the way to the pub. Gutted!
Thank god for ramps, hammers, welders and seam sealer! Oil Tight!
I have removed some of the stickers but the glue has remained on her..... keeps the flies of Lady PP!

Oh.. and Kev. Please dont polish your Ashtray too much... bare metal finish dont last well up north! >:D

Mk III Vauxhall Ashtray. In white, the exact colour of 1980's stiletto-heel shoes. It's quite a nice one as such things go.

I had a red 1.4L as a company car in 1992. It was hateful, a crummy built-down-to-a-price heapa sh*te. But it was a bit better than a Mk 4 Escort which must win the prize for the most cynical piss taking "let's see what we can get away with" shoddy crap car. Regrettably, for some unknown reason, it's oil vanished one day on the M25 and the engine siezed... hello Rover 216  :D

Kev,

Have you had your temperature taken recently? I believe you are sick.

Perhaps a lay down will help.

Washing/polishing & buffing is for cars older than you. Not new crap.

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a74/kev_mk3/Lemans%20Ring%2008/Picture205.jpg)

you can tell its mine i think  ::) (note the DFH cap on the dash)

Well, it's nearly a classic Kev, just give it another 30 years mate.

i would of sold it then and bought a sensible car - which im already thinking about actually

Yes, had one of those as a company car - 1300cc 2 door.  I made the mistake of fitting a tow bar to it and trying to tow a smallish trailer carrying a big iron V8.  It was okay down hills anyway  ::)

kev, you would have been proud of me today....i spent hours scrubbing a cart with a toothbrush today so it can take some girlies to their prom tomorrow night, its so shiny now....the difference is i got paid to do it, you are just sad.......

(http://www.xs4all.nl/~olie/fok/smilies/Smilies/cheerlie-ROFLMAOPIMP.gif)

funny enough i usually do get paid to do it tho - other peoples cars tho ;)

interesting. i've got a white car, but it seems wrong to polish it, they always look dirty.

Max Powered ? Tidy, i used to like these, they handled well too.

im part of a owners club for mk3 astras (awaits the abuse for that comment)

its not max powered just enhanced i say =

uprated shocks & springs
bigger wheels
uprated bushes (anti roll bar, wish bone bushes etc)
alot bigger brakes since lemans etc

no stick on crap and no nosey exhaust i actually love the standard quietness of it!

handles fantastic and was brilliant around the ring in germany. Plans are for a few track days over here now.

Keep it polished and Waxed and cleaning it is simple ;) bugs bounce off and dont stick

I want a "Nosey" exhaust for the Chavalier...  ;D

I suppose you would 'sniff' at a cherrybomb then  :D

there cracking exhausts lol

Post a pic of your bird!

You mean the ginger one?

Yep.. dyed black hair, red streaks... we all know a ginger bird thats hiding her real self. FIREBOX DOWN!
Sure they made a film about that.....

Thats his "cuddle" name for her!