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[PaPaHoFF]

This customer was looking for a polish and the car to be cleaned up. He was in florida working and the car was sitting at his families house for 3 years. He said it was being used so I figure how bad could it be.. Boy was I wrong.. The car was FILTHY and stunk to the high heavens. I wound up throwing away all of my clothes and towels / wash mitt used on this car. It took me 3 hours just to wash the car and 6 hours for the whole process. The family had no idea he didnt tell me it was in this condition and asked if I wanted to leave (I should have lol). All in all the customer received a Wash, clay and wax on the interior and I substituted the polish for a carpet extraction on the interior. The leather on the car was so cracked and torn that it looks permanently dirty.

Toyota Camry

Wash
- CG CWG Foam
- 2 bucket method w/ Meg Gold class
- Lots and Lots of Meg's APC


Wheels
- P21s wheel Gel
- EZ detail brush
- Zymol wheel brush
- Meg's APC on Wells


Clay
- Riccardo Yellow clay
- ONR as lube


LSP
- Pinnacle XMT 180 on red ccs hand applicator
- Swissvax Autobahn on wheels
- CG Barebones on wells
- BlackWOW on trim


Glass
- Meg's Glass Cleaner

Interior
- Meg's APC
- Woolite
- Folex
- Spot Shot
- Lexol Leather cleaner & Conditioner


Befores:
What a nightmare!

Thanks for looking

 

[Beemerboy]

Nice work, but more unbelievable that anyone would let there car get to that point

 

[tmacsad]

:yikes: :huh: assout: :vomit: :jawdrop:

That just ain't right miss treating a vehicle like that.

 

[POPPAJ]

Ya know, that passenger rear inside door panel just doesn't look all that bad!

 

[Ronkh]

Incredible !!!!

I had to make sure it wasn't April 1st and an April fools joke.

 

[Beemerboy]

Ya know, that passenger rear inside door panel just doesn't look all that bad!

:lmfao:lmfao:lmfao

 

[RTexasF]

I commend you for going through with the job after realizing you had been duped.

 

[spitzshineguy]

awesome job

 

[atkinsonair]

I take it they were happy, that was nasty. Let me ask this question.....would that be a situation where a foam gun filled with a mix of apc and soap would have paid for itself just to loosen up all that yuck? Good job on the car.:wow:

 

[OCDinPDX]

My God...that thing was TRASHED. Nice turn around.

 

[fccs]

That is just purely insane.. aha the dirtiness and the cleaning of it!

 

[tuscarora dave]

that is what the van that I just bought looked like, Great turn around.

 

[Bellydawg]

Fantastic. :rockon

Was there any clear coat failure under all that stuff? Also might try selling them a headlight cleaning. They definitely could use some love.

 

[PaPaHoFF]

Thanks everyone! This was by far the worst vehicle I have done to date. The pay was horrible for what I did so after making minimal improvements on the completely scuffed and cracked leather as well as some stubborn stains I gave up. They were happy though.

I take it they were happy, that was nasty. Let me ask this question.....would that be a situation where a foam gun filled with a mix of apc and soap would have paid for itself just to loosen up all that yuck? Good job on the car.:wow:

I mixed in CG Citrus Wash & Gloss and Megs APC in the foamer for this and it worked well. I mean I still had to SCRUB a lot of crap off as it has been like that for 3 years. I was surprised to see it start to be honest lol.

Fantastic. :rockon

Was there any clear coat failure under all that stuff? Also might try selling them a headlight cleaning. They definitely could use some love.

Actually no. The paint was pretty dull and could of definitely used a good polish but the customer did not want to spend much and clearly does not care about his car. Normally if a person appreciates there car and respects the job I will do the headlights out of courtesy or for a smaller fee than usual but this guy was not getting any special attention at all lol.

 

[dave40co]

Very nice job on that POS, filthy, disgusting car!

 

[occupant]

If that car was up for sale at Copart, it would have had a Biohazard stamp on the title!

Now it's pretty decent!

Don't you think it's funny that with oxidation, that particular gold color fades to almost silver, and it looks like the body panels are different colors? I see it all the time on ES300's, Camry's, Corollas, even pickups and minivans. Toyotas only. I don't know why they do that. It seems the bumper covers and door trim do it the worst. Maybe Toyota used different paints on metal and plastic surfaces? My Dad's 2000 Camry is that color and it doesn't do this, but it's a garaged car.

Is there a way to restore the color when it gets UV damaged like that? Maybe you have to cut down further, or take the clear off entirely and reshoot it?

 

[RyansAutoDetail]

ya that car woulda taken me easily 8 hours for just the interior and exterior without waxing LOL