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PaPaHoFF

This customer was looking for a polish and the car to be cleaned up. He was in florida working and the car was sitting at his families house for 3 years. He said it was being used so I figure how bad could it be.. Boy was I wrong.. The car was FILTHY and stunk to the high heavens. I wound up throwing away all of my clothes and towels / wash mitt used on this car. It took me 3 hours just to wash the car and 6 hours for the whole process. The family had no idea he didnt tell me it was in this condition and asked if I wanted to leave (I should have lol). All in all the customer received a Wash, clay and wax on the interior and I substituted the polish for a carpet extraction on the interior. The leather on the car was so cracked and torn that it looks permanently dirty.

Toyota Camry

Wash
- CG CWG Foam
- 2 bucket method w/ Meg Gold class
- Lots and Lots of Meg's APC

Wheels
- P21s wheel Gel
- EZ detail brush
- Zymol wheel brush
- Meg's APC on Wells

Clay
- Riccardo Yellow clay
- ONR as lube

LSP
- Pinnacle XMT 180 on red ccs hand applicator
- Swissvax Autobahn on wheels
- CG Barebones on wells
- BlackWOW on trim

Glass
- Meg's Glass Cleaner

Interior
- Meg's APC
- Woolite
- Folex
- Spot Shot
- Lexol Leather cleaner & Conditioner

Befores:
What a nightmare!

Thanks for looking

Beemerboy

Nice work, but more unbelievable that anyone would let there car get to that point

tmacsad

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Originally Posted by PaPaHoFF

That just ain't right miss treating a vehicle like that.

POPPAJ

Ya know, that passenger rear inside door panel just doesn't look all that bad!

Ronkh

Incredible !!!!

I had to make sure it wasn't April 1st and an April fools joke.

Beemerboy

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Originally Posted by POPPAJ

Ya know, that passenger rear inside door panel just doesn't look all that bad!

RTexasF

I commend you for going through with the job after realizing you had been duped.

spitzshineguy

awesome job

atkinsonair

I take it they were happy, that was nasty. Let me ask this question.....would that be a situation where a foam gun filled with a mix of apc and soap would have paid for itself just to loosen up all that yuck? Good job on the car.

OCDinPDX

My God...that thing was TRASHED. Nice turn around.

fccs

That is just purely insane.. aha the dirtiness and the cleaning of it!

tuscarora dave

that is what the van that I just bought looked like, Great turn around.

Bellydawg

Fantastic.

Was there any clear coat failure under all that stuff? Also might try selling them a headlight cleaning. They definitely could use some love.

PaPaHoFF

Thanks everyone! This was by far the worst vehicle I have done to date. The pay was horrible for what I did so after making minimal improvements on the completely scuffed and cracked leather as well as some stubborn stains I gave up. They were happy though.

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Originally Posted by atkinsonair

I take it they were happy, that was nasty. Let me ask this question.....would that be a situation where a foam gun filled with a mix of apc and soap would have paid for itself just to loosen up all that yuck? Good job on the car.

I mixed in CG Citrus Wash & Gloss and Megs APC in the foamer for this and it worked well. I mean I still had to SCRUB a lot of crap off as it has been like that for 3 years. I was surprised to see it start to be honest lol.

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Originally Posted by Bellydawg

Fantastic.

Was there any clear coat failure under all that stuff? Also might try selling them a headlight cleaning. They definitely could use some love.

Actually no. The paint was pretty dull and could of definitely used a good polish but the customer did not want to spend much and clearly does not care about his car. Normally if a person appreciates there car and respects the job I will do the headlights out of courtesy or for a smaller fee than usual but this guy was not getting any special attention at all lol.

dave40co

Very nice job on that POS, filthy, disgusting car!