Car Cleaning Cock-ups. What's yours?

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Another thread has just inspired me as I think this deserves a thread of its own.

I'll start you off with - Dropped a clay bar on the road, before I'd even got to the car to use it......Binned. :x
I had an ex GF who wanted to hoover the inside of her new car and put the new upright dyson on the passenger seat.
As she hoovered away on the carpets with the nozzle, the rotary carpet brush slowly but surely ate away at the side bolster :thumbsdown:
£130 to recover the side bolsters.
 
Running out of spooge remover last night when trying to see if it was possible to do the Mrs in the Zed.
 
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My first attempts at car cleaning with the tragic. Back in the days when I couldn't understand the difference between a sponge and a microfibre. :headbang:
 
Trying to prep my last car for sale, tried too hard, multiplied the swirls massively in just 2hrs. Cue 2, possibly 3 whole days getting it back to it's previous - and actually quite good - condition. You'd have thought that after 2 1/2 years on here I'd have known better. Daft twat that I am :oops: :headbang:

Oh, and I multiplied the spousal irritation that already existed around me buying a car I didn't really need by about 1000x by spending so much time cleaning the current car. A fail of epic proportions.
 
When I was 23 and had no clue about detailing I polished my black 3 series right after washing - ie no claying. It swirled the car badly. So badly that the swirls never shifted. Poor car was only 3 years old but the paint looked 10 years old :(


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My second car was an 18month old Primera 2.0. Saloon. (Just like Matt Neal's. :wink: )

Had it a week and I invited my 2year old son to help me wash it. After about 5 mins I noticed his little sponge looked a bit mucky. It was coverd in grit. Took me two days to get the scratches out.

Kids got to luv em, but can you eat a whole one. :D
 
When I was about 17 I used a scouring pad to remove bird crap from the bonnet of my dad's brand new Renault Scenic. It looked great until the water dried and revealed a birds nest of scratches :oops:
 
ric19 said:
I used a foam pan scourer to remove some road tar on my old C4, looked great till it dried
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An ex from many years ago did a similar thing on his black M3 to remove some encrusted bird poo. He kept calling himself an idiot for weeks after as it really messed up the paint on the bonnet.
 
Before i learned that AG SRP should be used before & not after Black hole glaze i proceeded to remove all my previous effort's by thinking it was a top coat sealer polish :cry:
 
glad i'm not the only one to use the washing up scourer to get bird muck off the bonnet! Fair to say I won't be making that mistake twice
 
Discovering T-cut as a 17 year old resulted in an area of primer being exposed as I enthusiastically tried to 'fix' a scratch. :cry:
 
Spending two day doing a full machine polish only to lock the cat in the garage who decided to walk all over it covering it in muddy paw prints


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I have just spent 2 hours with a new electric mopping system that I put too much polish on, and then every single stone chip that has accumulated over 69000 miles is now a bright shade of white! i now have to power wash my spotty :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: z to get that sorted whilst not allowing too much water to get into the hood drain area or that will go again!!!!!!!!!
 
I reckon I can trump most. Used to put mine through a 'touch free' auto car wash thing. Pretty sure it contributed to my £600 expense to replace a toasted roof motor.
 
Montjeu said:
I reckon I can trump most. Used to put mine through a 'touch free' auto car wash thing. Pretty sure it contributed to my £600 expense to replace a toasted roof motor.
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:oops: I so nearly did that this week! just thought about it for a while thank god.
 
I was under the somewhat false illusion that the facelift had remedied the inherent design flaw. But it was also just a dumb thing to do.
 
Adamski said:
When I was 23 and had no clue about detailing I polished my black 3 series right after washing - ie no claying. It swirled the car badly. So badly that the swirls never shifted. Poor car was only 3 years old but the paint looked 10 years old :(


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don't think claying before every polish is necessary is it?
 
When the car hadn't been clayed all its life, there was a lot of nasty stuff stuck to the paint that just got ground in and scratched the hell out of the clear coat :(

Looked ok in dull light, but when the sun came out....... :oops:
 
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