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The detailing obsession of a man and his vauxhall astra!

ORIGINAL: zcacogp

I am definitely in the wrong line of business, I have decided.

Anyone want their car washed? Bargain rates - £3000 a time. I'll even take the wheels off and wash the backs of them. eMail me through the forum .... (:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:)


Oli.
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I'll haggle, how about £5,000?
 
ORIGINAL: wibble

If someone said would I buy a car of this man, then it would have to be "yes".
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You'd buy a Vauxhall Ashtray?! With chequered flags on it?

To be fair if he'd left it standard then (aside the obvious problem with it being an Astra) then I see the logic, but he didn't just detail it; he messed around with it changing stuff that didn't need changing like the exhaust, wheel colour, suspension, all that nonsense with badges and stainless covers under the bonnet (is it just me who thought it looked better standard?) etc. and he put about 3 1/2 tonnes of Dynamat and ICE in it to more than offset the minimal tuning improvement he got using a Pooperchip. Devalued, basically.
 
Well in a way I was fascinated by the whole build and have read the whole thread and all the photos and I have to give the guy 10/10 for effort and the quality, but how much must he have spent???? I mean thousands I'm sure, on a Vauxhall Astra!!!! Like Tony says it'll be worth another 30 bob on top of a regular Astra [:D][:D]

Although how dull would life be if we all liked the same things[:)]
 
Make it £6,000 and I'll bring the amount of work down to a half-a-day with a hosepipe and some turtle wax.

Deal?


Oli.
 
£8,000, and you can also buy me lunch and beers for the afternoon.

(This could get silly. Not that it isn't silly already.)


Oli.
 
Still not a silly as taking a brand new Astra and spending the next several weeks and who knows how much money making it so clean that you can't use it and so personalised that you can't sell it for what it might otherwise be worth.
 
That's a deal then.

It's bad enough really spending that much time detailing any variety of car even a supercar let alone a souped up shopping trolley at the end of the day it's just a lump of metal.
 
Let's face it, it will be better condition than it left the factory - probably never ventures further than the local fuel pumps.

No you are right, I would have to enter the dark side and get myself a top notch 968 CS and still have change for a £4k scrub by your man.
 
This car was stolen recently. I wonder if the thief appreciated the anal and obsessive cleaning and polishing as he ragged it up the road?

Whether the anally 'detailed' Dyson vacuum cleaner was also taken is unclear at this time.....
 
That made me chuckle, but in all seriousness he must be gutted. Then again I have to wonder that it would never have happened had he not whipped up the notoriety it has on the internet.
 
Id imagine so too. I do wonder though, whether he is relishing the prospect of another anal obsessive detail-fest when he receives his new replacement from the insurance company.?
 
Very good point. He must enjoy it otherwise he just wouldn't be able to do it.

Actually I can see to a degree how he might enjoy it, what I can't understand is how he has time to do it; I barely have time to wash the mud and cow plop off my car most of the time.
 
This is just insane, he cleans and details the inside of the wheels. and is "especially fussy" around the balance weights.

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This chap needs help!

"Wheels

Ok we are jumping forward in time slighly here as to be honest the wheels were starting to stress me out.....I cleaned them non stop day after day but the nature of the paint on them like a china effect actually made them impossibly to keep clean .....I was having nightmares about the colouration of them after only 100 miles so scoured the web for ideas.....I decided after seeing a Lambo Murcielago that i lved the effect of the wheels and the way the light bounced off them.....I spoke to a specialist who advised me to go for a traight of chrome combined with a silver overlay and dark shadowing so thats what i went for......I asked for faces to appear light yet innards to be dark to trick the light on them into covering inside with shadows yet make the edges appear light...

My car was left for a week with them"
 
"I cleaned them non stop day after day but the nature of the paint on them like a china effect actually made them impossibly to keep clean .....I was having nightmares about the colouration of them after only 100 miles"

what kind of nightmares would he have if he saw the wheels on my 944 S2??? They only get washed about twice a year and are in dire need of a re-furb.
 
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