Swirls at LA auto show

M

Murrayhe

New member
I was at the LA auto show and damn, 99% of the cars there are filled with swirls, even many of the high-end exotics.



And then I went over to Kentia Hall, where all the aftermarket stuff was at. Lots of detailing companies there, including McGuires. Guess what? Swirls on the majority of the cars there too. In fact, every car I looked closely at in the McGuire's booth had them!



Am I just becoming super anal about swirls or is that how most of the fellow Autopians are too?
 
Oggle said:
I was at the LA auto show and damn, 99% of the cars there are filled with swirls, even many of the high-end exotics.



And then I went over to Kentia Hall, where all the aftermarket stuff was at. Lots of detailing companies there, including McGuires. Guess what? Swirls on the majority of the cars there too. In fact, every car I looked closely at in the McGuire's booth had them!



Am I just becoming super anal about swirls or is that how most of the fellow Autopians are too?
Click to expand...



This should come as no surprise to you. Most of the people in this industry create more problems with cars than they fix.
 
And the funny thing is, once I started pointing out all the swirls, my friends were making fun of me, saying I'm way too anal. :(
 
I can't even go to car shows anymore. I've got such an OCD problem with fingerprints on cars and people leaning on cars that it just drives me nuts. I like seeing the cars but it makes me upset all day to see people treating cars like that.



Every now and then I'll see that one car that is deep black and totally swirl free. That makes it all worth while. Seeing one car like that at a car show makes everything alright with the world. lol I am so sick...
 
At media day last week at the LA Auto Show, I watched (in utter horror) as a video photographer was filming a guy in a Meguiar's detailing outfit do the following:



1) Start by buffing the front wheel in a circular pattern; buffed the same 8" diameter area for about 2 minutes while the photog played with camera settings.



2) Moved on to the hood, repeated the 8" diameter pattern for what seemed like 5+ minutes. The guy was panning, zooming, etc., and the "detailer" was using the same grimey looking towel that he had used on the wheels.



3) Repeat #2 on decklid.



The vehicle: 2004 Jaugar XJR, green.



The "detailers" at this show look like ex-McDonald's employees that Meguiar's slapped a vest on, handed a bottle of QD and a dirty towel and told them to "clean something....anything." (No offense to McDonald's employees - I used to be one myself, some 15 years ago...) :)
 
Auto shows are now horror shows. Sometimes I wonder if I was better off before learning the higher level of detailing here at Autopia or the uninformed detailing I was previously doing. It is pretty anal to be Q-tipping hidden spaces in the engine compartment, lower seat switches and air vent louvers. :scared

Sometimes ignorance is blessed.:wavey
 
Went to the New Years Day "Car Show" at Pepperdine University. Lots of great cars....but man the detailing was well...crap...I could not believe how bad some of the cars were.



DSC00042.JPG




More photo's of the show and the later Boxster drive can be found at:

http://www.brackenrig.net/newyearsdrive.htm
 
Nah, you're not being too picky. :) I noticed the same things at the LA Auto Show. They had "cleaners" walking around with dirty rags and a bottle of QD, rubbing the heck out of the cars. The same guys polishing the Chevy Cavaliers would do the same job on a Lotus. Yikes.



The Meguiars booth was slightly better in that their "cleaner" used a microfiber towel, but their show cars didn't look especially great, swirl marks, etc.
 
Yup, the "detailer" at the Meguiar's booth was QD'ing this orange Ford Expedition with swirls. And here is a pic of a brand new Porsche Cayenne S with swirls:
 
It is funny how this "Detailing Sickness" afflicts us!



I just finished detailing my truck before I took my wife Camping with our truck and trailer. We camp at a horse ranch, and take the truck up into the hills for fishing.



When we got back, one of the Ranch hands came over to chat about how the fishing was. He took the can of Pepsi he was drinking, and placed it on the hood of my truck!!! You know, a flat surface for can storage!!:eek:



Well, I can not remember much as I think I had a mini stroke! My wife said that my face went totally white(blood pressure), and looked as if I was ready to attack the guy! :mad:



Yup! It is a sickness!!!! I still cringe over that pop can!!!:D
 
I can't stand that detailing companies' have cars that are all messy and swirled up. It makes you not want to buy what they preach since they don't even follow it in practice.
 
THis same thing happened to me at the Sydney motor show.

i was complaining to my friends about all the swirls on the car.

and when they just use the old dirty tshirt to dust off the cars, i would cringe.



quite dissapointing all those expensive cars, and they havnt even been driven in the weather yet, but they have swirls.



arghh
 
Man, a new car with swirls is like a building that is built with grafitti already applied. It just goes to show that its not the elements that cause swirls all the time. A high percentage of our own swirls are probably user error. :( It kind of hurts to see the swirls in my car that I blame on the weather knowing that I was probably the one who put them there and not the salt on the roads.
 
As a Glendale resident (Los Angeles suburb), we have our own auto show that's done 1-2 times a year. Very nice exotic cars, all parked along Brand Blvd, under the sun. I used to enjoy this show a lot more before finding Autopia..... BlkZ28, you are absolutely correct!!
 
My Favorite part of the big auto shows(Chicago) is the amazing number of dash knobs, shift knobs etc.. that are missing! I saw a Chrysler guy with a box of dash knobs and a tube of superglue going from car to car replacing knobs.:nono
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top