Top quality Carmax restoration....

SpoiledMan

SpoiledMan

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......NOT! Taken with a camera phone and they're even visible out of direct sunlight. True first class buffing.....:chuckle: :grinno: :clap: Not just this car either. There were several with trails all over the place but NONE were as artfully designed as this one.



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terrific hey. The worst I get with buffing is the absolute finest of holograms that you can barely see in any light, which of course I fix
 
That looks about like my first Mazda 6 (before they replaced it with another one) that they brought back from the body shop who tried to get tree sap out of the clear. I took one look at the paint and thought to myself "thank God they're giving me a different one or I'd be super pissed."
 
MikeWinLDS said:
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That is too funny!



I really don't think I'd buy another car from Carmax. I've heard too many horror stories and the last car I bought from them had over $12k worth of repairs done - fortunately only $400 out of my pocket since I purchased the extended warranty. Their prices aren't really that great. I think the op's pics show the quality of Carmax work. Sorry if I offended anyone with a car from Carmax. Just my $0.02.
 
Scottwax said:
Doesn't anyone there see anything wrong with the buffing jobs?
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I think the problem is that they do...they just don't know how to fix it. And if they tried, it might look even worse.



Carmax buffer 1: Look at the hood! What do I do now?



Carmax buffer 2: I'm not sure...buff it longer and see what happens.



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Wouldnt you think though after hacking up a few cars that they are making them look worse than what they where and ultimately making them stop doing that?
 
Coupe said:
Wouldnt you think though after hacking up a few cars that they are making them look worse than what they where and ultimately making them stop doing that?
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I think it is more going through the motions, and no one really knowing what they are doing (what a surprise!). The supervisor tells them to buff it, they buff it. If it comes out like crap "hey, I buffed the car, like you told me". The supervisor has never buffed a car, so he says "ok". The manager asks the supervisor if all the cars on the lot are getting buffed like he specified, and the supervisor says "yup". And so it goes. Like the story of the Autopian complaining about swirls/holograms on a black car they were looking at and being told that's just the way black cars are.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I think it is more going through the motions, and no one really knowing what they are doing (what a surprise!). The supervisor tells them to buff it, they buff it. If it comes out like crap "hey, I buffed the car, like you told me". The supervisor has never buffed a car, so he says "ok". The manager asks the supervisor if all the cars on the lot are getting buffed like he specified, and the supervisor says "yup". And so it goes. Like the story of the Autopian complaining about swirls/holograms on a black car they were looking at and being told that's just the way black cars are.
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Thats kinda what i mean. Wouldnt you think that after the supervisor seen the damage he would make everyone stop doing that?
 
Coupe said:
Thats kinda what i mean. Wouldnt you think that after the supervisor seen the damage he would make everyone stop doing that?
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The super probably thinks it looks great and had them do his car too!
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Not if the supervisor has never polished a car, and doesn't know how to instruct the hack how to do it right.
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Shouldnt matter if he has or not. Anyone with eyes can see that the vehicles look worse after buffing. Kinda what im gettin at, you would have to be completely 100% blind not to see the damage.
 
Coupe said:
Shouldnt matter if he has or not. Anyone with eyes can see that the vehicles look worse after buffing. Kinda what im gettin at, you would have to be completely 100% blind not to see the damage.
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I'm not saying the supervisor can't see it. So the supervisor knows nothing about polishing (plausible), he thinks it looks like crap, he says so to the hack, the hack says "well, I buffed it", the supervisor says "but it looks like crap!" the hack says, "if you can do it better, go ahead!", the supervisor turns tail and goes back into his office. The manager sees the interaction going on thru the window, sees the supervisor come back in, manager looks out the window at the workers buffing, smiles, thinks the supervisor is doing a good job, and goes back to his desk to calculate what he is going to buy with his bonus. Welcome to America. Why do you think the best selling cars in this country are made in American plants with Japanese names on them? Or in plants in Canada and Mexico that have American names on them?
 
Carmax keeps trying to increase their profits and they are turning out crappier cars. Ages ago (mid 90's) when I worked there, they actually had a decent detailing crew. They used Meguiars products and had a nice setup. They also had nice clean cars and didn't put crap on the front lot. These days the caliber of cars on the front lot is crap.
 
The prices in many cases were REALLY wrong(too high). They had a 38k mile 06 TL for $29,000 and a couple of 2x,000 mile TSX's '05's that were 25k. Too much when low mileage lease returns of those a year older can be had for much less.
 
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