Horror Stories!!!!

Not sure this is a horror story as it is an anger story...I was

in horror when I saw it, and then I became angry shortly thereafter.



About a week ago, I started to get my car ready for winter.

I did the serious washdown, did a polish, and started my

layers of sealant- on the panels, the windshield,and side

glass. Now the car's looking good, and I am ready to pimp

it for the rest of the week (it also serves as my business

card so to speak) :xyxthumbs



First day back to work at my other job, I get in the car,

and notice a smear on my windshield. Missed a spot I figured.

But with more thorough looking over that night, I saw it was

a footprint of some animal, that appeared to be sliding down

the glass. I began to see other prints on the glass as well.

No biggie, I wiped the prints off and drive on. The next day,

I took a look at my hood and saw the same kind of marks- only

this time, they were longer. and did not come off with a wipe of

the towel during today's wash. Looks like the thing was

scrambling hard to get some traction as it was climbing to the

roof of the car, and dug it's clwas int the paint and the glass.



I don't know if this is a testament to the "slickness"

of the product I used (which oddly did not feel that slick to me).

But I am quite certain that if this stuff was not on the

car, the animal whatever it was would not have scratched

up my paint, because it would have not slid down the car.



I don't have the time to correct the problem so I plan to leave

the scratches be, and deal with it later on, if I'm still around.



Right now my biggest fear is that the ******* is going to come

back, try again, and scratch up more of my paint.:grrr
 
I have two for you. First one was a customer's black F-150 with about 1/16 th of an inch thick brake dust on the whole bottom driver side and the front rim. I've never seen anything so bad before. Well it took me 4 hrs to clay off the brake dust just on those areas. I was afraid to use anything else as not to scratch the paint. Turned out very good with minimal pitting only because he left it too long.



The next one was a black 03 BMW X5. My customer was having some tile work done at his home( you can probably see where this is going) and after washing his X5 he used the towel he always uses to dry it not knowing the tile guy's used it to wipe up some grouting. Needless to say it badly sratched the entire vehicle. The repair job turned out very well, you could hardly notice any marks left in the paint. He was very pleased. I got him a WW MF after that, he loves it.
 
They say a picture is worth a thousand words....



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No after shot, too dark when I finished.



This one I just vacuumed, it belongs to a customer's friend who only wanted a vac and wash.



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Well, inspite of being already mad, I decided to take the car out for a quick spin to a local gas sattion where the lighting is more intense than my garage. I do this just to see if there are any spots I did not wipe the sealant off totally. I knew I was taking a risk as the kids are out launching eggs and other stuff at each other and cars passing on the road. Well I got to the station, and saw no less the 3 cars with varying levels of egg topping. All these folks out there feverishly wiping down their cars with anything they could get their hands on. One guy was using one of those car wash brooms with some water, very busily scrubbing his car down, while others were using paper towels and beach towels ( the guy with the beach towels was very careful to give the towels a couple of quick shakes to get the leftover sand out).



As luck would have it, I had no cards to give out again.



Anyway, I gat out my car, give it good looking over, spray on some Final Inspection on the unwiped spots. One of the guys with the paper towles comes over and says, " those punks got you too, huh?" I just replied, "No, looks lke a cat tried to climb my car and slid off the sealant." Dude just looked at me with one of those "whats sealant" looks and went back to what he was doing. I was about to give the guy a quick lesson when something told me to finish wiping the car and get out of dodge. I got done, and puled out of the station to head home. And just like clockwork I could see a gang of kids running down the street with bags in their hands (I and I can tell you, they weren't packing candy).



Don't what happened to those other guys and their cars after that. I was just happy to get my car back home un-egged.



Now I just have to figure out what to do about that cat.
 
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