Clean Cars & Mother Nature

[conrad.maranan]

So, I woke up at about 6:00AM this morning and decided to start my day by detailing my car. Wash, clay bar, polish, finish polish, sealant, wax, engine dress up, interior detail, windows, and wheels and tires - the whole nine yards.

My car loves me and I'm lovin' it back by just looking at it and going over every panel slowly with a clean microfiber towel.

[conrad.maranan]

And then I pull this up from www.weather.com.



I swear...I am not driving until Wednesday. I'm taking days off of work until the rain magically disappears and the roads dry up. The rain gods have forsaken me. If it's not those kamikaze birds, it's those sadistic rain gods.

[Vapor]

Time to use your sick days....

Or hide ALL keys for the Honda and take your wife's 5-series

[sokarul]

I hate birds. Wish my car was in a garage.

[conrad.maranan]

Or hide ALL keys for the Honda and take your wife's 5-series

The sad thing is I did the same detail job for her car on Friday morning. She used my car to go to work and left me hers so that I can remove the minor swirls from her paint.

I usually don't care if it rains a day or two after I wash and wax my car. But rain after an all-out detail job that takes me 6 to 8 hours is just sad. And I only found out about the rain because I wanted to see how hot it was going to be tomorrow. I was planning to take some high-res pictures of the cars at high noon. Argh!

[Vapor]

Man, I completely empathize...I care for my car and my parents cars just almost to the same degree (I do for my car and my mom's car, not so much my dad's and I don't do multi-hour detail jobs, I break it up) and I get in such an awful mood when I spend so much time on it and I either can't enjoy it or it gets ruined. The worst though is when my dad will take his car and just make a mess of the inside or leave it in the outdoor lot at his work when it rains.

Anyway, have fun being couped up the next few days

And if it's any consolance....you're doing a HECK of job on D2OL!

[olfen]

move to sweden and you will never have a clean car more than 1day, it's raining, bad roads all the time

[conrad.maranan]

move to sweden and you will never have a clean car more than 1day, it's raining, bad roads all the time

That sounds like bad news. I don't mind having a dirty truck, but a dirty car is another story. I wash and wax my cars every weekend and do a full out detail job every 4 to 6 weeks. Rock chips on my front bumper and hood are my worst enemy. Rain, water splashes, and bird droppings come in at a close second.

Someone needs to invent an invisible force field for cars.

[Vapor]

I think the makers of RainX tried but failed miserably.

[conrad.maranan]

I went at it again from Wednesday night until Saturday morning - just trying to get that 100% glistening wet look for my baby shower yesterday. Washed, clayed, four layers of Four Star UPP sealant (12 hours between layers), and two layers of Poorboy's Natty's Blue pure carnauba paste wax spit-shined with freezer-chilled Poorboy's Spray & Gloss. The depth and clarity was just amazing on Saturday, especially for a car that isn't even black. The metallic flakes were just poppin' and these pictures do the work very little justice.

And then I log onto www.weather.com again and notice that we'll be having a thunderstorm on Tuesday.

[zabomb4163]

my car has never been washed in its entire life (2 years)

[Welz]

my car has never been washed in its entire life (2 years)

LOL thats the way im gonna role when i can afford my own

[conrad.maranan]

my car has never been washed in its entire life (2 years)

LOL thats the way im gonna role when i can afford my own

That's how I was with my truck because I have it in my head that trucks look sexy when they're dirty or muddy. I would wash my truck once every 4 or 5 months. When it comes to cars, though...my obsessive compulsive disorder kicks in to overdrive.

[olfen]

thats some really nice work there conrad

[fatfreepork]

rain? what city are you in?

[conrad.maranan]

I live in La Habra. You'll be getting some rain, too. At least the sun will come back out on Thursday so it's not too bad.

[bullet2urbrain]

Nice Job Conrad.M looks nice and clean... too bad the rain gods have your car marked for dirtiness....

i would love to have the time to detail my car.. but i never do.ever.. and the rewards generally dont last in cleveland weather.

[PsYkHoTiK]

I really hate it when that happens. Last sunday when I washed my car, it rained overnight and the whole of monday too...

But nice job on the car. Looks really nice..

What tripod is that btw?

[conrad.maranan]

The rain gods definitely have a thing for me. On the bright side, at least my car looked good on Saturday for the baby shower. I think I took more pics of my car than of the people at the party. Hahaha.

The tripod is just one of those generic pieces sold on ebay. It's actually pretty decent and works well for someone who rarely uses a camera. I bought it because I have jittery hands and my Fujifilm S5100 is lacking in the stabilization department.

[trance565]

lol, what brand wax do you use? me and my brother use mc guires number 7 and number 22? i think, whenever we decide to completley detail

[PsYkHoTiK]

LOL!

Ok. Thats nice. It looked like a branded one to me...

[[XC] leviathan18]

ive did the same job today to my car and guess what now is all gloomy and dark and it look it wants to rain... oh well i guess that is destiny

[zabomb4163]

why is rain bad?

[[XC] leviathan18]

after you spent several hours washing, polishing and cleaning your car ... rain is just awful cuz it gets dirty again

[PsYkHoTiK]

Especially when u have to drive it and get road film all over....