Who has "Ruined" their significant other?

TuxedoTaurus

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My wife and I travel a good bit. Recently out of no where she will say "yuck, that`s nasty, or how could you own a nice car and treat it like that" then will look at me and say "You ruined me I see swirls everywhere".

She has learned how to "touch" paint, and run her coated car through a decent touch less wash to remove accumulated bug before they set in if I can`t get to them right away.

Just wondering if any of you have rubbed off on your significant other?


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I`m getting ready to. Gf is supposed to be getting a new car today. Looking forward to perfecting the paint and getting it coated.
 
My wife has always been like that...learned it from her father. She actually asks me "when are you going to get to my car?" when it`s dirty...which is very seldom. She does the interior herself.....very fussy about it.
 
Buster906 said:
Sounds like your wife has a mild case of detailer eye

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Yes she does, and it makes my life slightly easier maintaining the Taurus.

I just regret not putting a PPF on when I got it. I will not another new car without it that I will use for travel.


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Accumulatorette is basically an off-the-scale Autopian when it comes to her A8 (or any of our other vehicles). She shares me utter hatred of holograms and other "don`t know what you`re doing"-type marring, keeps the inside of her car nice and clean, and never touches the paint/glass/etc. She`s pretty well-trained as a driver too, far moreso that most "car-guys" we know.
 
haha, when we are walking through a parking lot i always spot out the cars with all the swirls.

So we were at a cars and coffee kind of meet and she was doing the same with the exotics lol.
 
Wife loves a glossy shiny exterior, but interiors are natural disasters with the carpooling.

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My wife is starting to. She is starting to see the evidence of buffer trails on cars as they drive by and comments that if it was done right you wouldn`t see them


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I think "significant others" put up with the other half`s personal interest, professional careers, and leisure time activities. While the other half may like to hunt and/or fish, play golf, or fill-in any other hobby or interest or leisure time activity, mine is detailing vehicles. If the other half does NOT like (or actually HATES) what you do, you have a difficult time communicating about that activity in that relationship. On the other hand if they enjoy the fruit of the labors of that interest, there is more of a chance that they will "tolerate" that activity. What good other half would not like a clean, shiny vehicle. Of course, the problem is when too much time and money is spent on the activity (according to the other half) at the expense of other "honey-do-this" chores or "Why are you buying a new buffing machine when we REALLY need a new washer?". But I digress.....
Has my passion for detailing rubbed off on my wife? Yes. She can spot swirls on vehicles in used car lots or at the mall lot or even at car shows. God forbid if I miss a spot on her black vehicle (which I do occasionally) and she takes it to work. " I need to fire my detailer and get a better one" is her response. Then I counter with the need for a better (new) buffing machine and more (expensive) car-care chemicals. I think you know where that leads!!!.....
 
Oh yeah my wife will tell about cars she sees all swirled up all the time. Even when we go to car shows she points them out lol.
 
No women I`ve even been with has given a crap about her car or what it looks like. When I meet one who does - maybe I`ll marry her.
 
Swanicyouth said:
No women I`ve even been with has given a crap about her car or what it looks like. When I meet one who does - maybe I`ll marry her.
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I did it the other way around, got together with Accumulatorette while her car was, uhm...well, it was leaving rust stains on the driveway and I wouldn`t let it in the garage. Explained the whole thing, starting with "had it been kept clean it wouldn`t have rusted-out like that and you could`ve just kept driving it" and moving on to how "unmarred stuff looks better than scratched-up stuff and it`s all about never touching the paint". It was a classic "lightbulb goes on over her head!" situation and she`s been onboard ever since.

She was unique to my experience in that her car *was* ratty, that was a new one for me as IME most women keep everything they have pretty nice, vehicles included. (Note that in all fairness, its mechanicals were A1 (original clutch/synchros at >150K, overkill OCI, good tires, etc.). She just thought that the Tunnel Wash was OK, didn`t know any better. Bu she did keep the interior very clean.)

Eh, my experiences with the opposite sex always seem, uhm...unusual..in that the gals I know just aren`t the way people seem to think women always are. The whole "women are always [whatever]..." just hasn`t been my experience, but then I`m awfully selective about whom I associate with.

Last person I lent a polisher to was a gal-pal of mine; she did her Lexus with it no-problem and LSPed with M16. Didn`t need any coaching/etc. either, basically thought it was all intuitively obvious. Might not have turned out Autopian, but she was happy and IMO it looked better than when her husband does it.
 
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My wife is the same. I`ve also got her rolling windows down whenever a muscle car goes by to hear it, which is usually quickly followed by "oh God, I`ve been with you too long." haha

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House of Wax said:
My wife is the same. I`ve also got her rolling windows down whenever a muscle car goes by to hear it..
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Huh, now *that* surprises me!

Eh, I`m kinda outside-the-box on that and maybe that contributes to how Accumulatorette is about it...I basically woke up one morning having lost any interest in such stuff, surprised even myself; it`s like some wire went down or something :o
 
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