OCDinPDX
Paint Ph.D
I was the first in my family and group of friends to be "shown" swirls in car paint. I was introduced to them by Aaron, the head sales lot attendant at a Land Rover dealer I used to work for in Portland. He was incredibly finicky and the management was even more so. Even used cars had to look perfect. Thankfully we gave out our work to a select group of detailers who knew what they were doing and we were forced to pick up the rest.
I was let go from that job but the virus had been planted. So slowly but surely, I began noticing swirls, especially in black paint. It happened too late to save my dad's black Acura TL which was sold to a friend in 2007 but it happened JUST in time to save the TL's replacement, a black RL. Aside from just noticing them, they began to generally bother me and they have since stuck out on cars that pass me on the road or are parked on the street.
I took what I had learned at Land Rover and completely re-vamped my car cleaning approach. I threw out my terry cloths and bought a whole slough of microfiber mitts and WW drying towels. I then began to notice buffer burn as well as show my friends (who have as much OCD potential as I do) the swirls in black cars. Slowly my family began to notice them...even my sister who doesn't give two damns about a car noticed the custom Beetle I worked on a while ago. I had the halogens on it and she walked by, "What did he do, wash it with a broom?" I was so proud...
But it finally came to a head one night, my friends were over and with my parents we were all watching a new episode of Family Guy. On an ad break there came on a commercial for the new Dodge Ram where they were showing some fancy feature in the cargo bed. Well the truck was black and the tailgate had swirls on it so nobody saw the feature they were talking about. I said, "Did you see the swirls on that?" And everybody said, "I know! Awful!" :lmfao :rofl
And just think, one person with honest intentions "infected" a minimum of seven people. :lol2: Thanks, Aaron. I owe ya one. :gotcha:
I was let go from that job but the virus had been planted. So slowly but surely, I began noticing swirls, especially in black paint. It happened too late to save my dad's black Acura TL which was sold to a friend in 2007 but it happened JUST in time to save the TL's replacement, a black RL. Aside from just noticing them, they began to generally bother me and they have since stuck out on cars that pass me on the road or are parked on the street.
I took what I had learned at Land Rover and completely re-vamped my car cleaning approach. I threw out my terry cloths and bought a whole slough of microfiber mitts and WW drying towels. I then began to notice buffer burn as well as show my friends (who have as much OCD potential as I do) the swirls in black cars. Slowly my family began to notice them...even my sister who doesn't give two damns about a car noticed the custom Beetle I worked on a while ago. I had the halogens on it and she walked by, "What did he do, wash it with a broom?" I was so proud...
But it finally came to a head one night, my friends were over and with my parents we were all watching a new episode of Family Guy. On an ad break there came on a commercial for the new Dodge Ram where they were showing some fancy feature in the cargo bed. Well the truck was black and the tailgate had swirls on it so nobody saw the feature they were talking about. I said, "Did you see the swirls on that?" And everybody said, "I know! Awful!" :lmfao :rofl
And just think, one person with honest intentions "infected" a minimum of seven people. :lol2: Thanks, Aaron. I owe ya one. :gotcha:
