hmm bugger yeh, so now i have to remove the wax i put on it after he did it, then take it back for him to fix it. blody anoying

hmm yeah well, tomorrow im going to take the car to him and see what he says about it, if he says he wil hand polish with a good swirl removing polish or something ill have him do it, but if he reckons he will just buff it again i wont be so sure

any idea how i should remove the coat of wax i put over the top of his polish? he said he will have to charge me to take off the wax before he can deal with the marks underneath. is there a wax remover product or should i use a clay bar or sometihng?

k i might do that tomorrow, then take it to they guy to fix it up. i think itl be too warm tomorrow for me to be bothered claying the car

ok so i finaly got some photos of my paint work (a sunny day), and if i manage to upload them correctly, you can see the result of a really crap cut and polish (not done by me of course, i would have put much more care and time into it!)









These marks are visible in most sunlight, and under streetlights or halogens. I'm not very happy about it!!

I'm taking it back to him to rectify it, and if he cant fix it i'll bring my big brother (big and strong to intimidate him haha) and demand a refund, because if he claims to have the skill and experience to deal with this sort of thing its within my rights as a consumer to demand it be done properly.

well i showed a guy who has done a bit of paintwork for me before, roger, he owns a body shop, and he said it looked like about an 80 dollar job this guy had done, when i paid something more like 300-400! roger said it looks like he has just gone in with a coarse cut and a coarse pad, but he should then have used a finer pad/compound, even then maybe another, finer pad and compound, and then a final hand polish.

i showed the guy, ian, that did the work (however it was overcast and very ddificult to see the marks he had made), and told him my concerns and he reluctantly said he will fix it up (actualy he said someting more like well you couldnt expect all the swirls to come out, such is the nature of this operation, but ill see what i can do - what a bull**** artist!!!), but if its not close to a showroom shine im going to demand a refund, because its a lot of money (especially for a student - i just want my car to look bloody good!!!)

im quite angry about this at the moment, i only hope that he does a better bloody job of fixing it up... if theres any areas that arent up to scratch ill find a scary lookin guy on the street to go razz him up or something haha...

yeah its pretty **** hey.oh well ill see if he can fix it up first

ill keep u updated, ill take some photos in the sun after he works on it again.

well the car is in the barossa and im in adelaide, so i got mum to take it back to the guy (with photos of the worst marks in sunlight - and a letter to him) and he fixed it up, but i havent seen it as yet, so i dont know how good it looks! im hoping that it looks really good, cos im not taking it back to him - he rang me up and got ****ty with me for trying to tell him how to do his job or something haha. but he is a bit of a dickhead and you cant tell these people sometimes.

ill see the car on the weekend and HOPEFULLY it will be showroom shine... well close to that anyway! ill see if i can get some photos of how it looks now when i see it

donuts_mmm;180457 wrote:

well the car is in the barossa and im in adelaide, so i got mum to take it back to the guy (with photos of the worst marks in sunlight - and a letter to him) and he fixed it up, but i havent seen it as yet, so i dont know how good it looks! im hoping that it looks really good, cos im not taking it back to him - he rang me up and got ****ty with me for trying to tell him how to do his job or something haha. but he is a bit of a dickhead and you cant tell these people sometimes.

ill see the car on the weekend and HOPEFULLY it will be showroom shine... well close to that anyway! ill see if i can get some photos of how it looks now when i see it

hey mate i was a detailer for 2 years befor i started to sell caravan spare parts...
now if i had of done that to my own car my boss would of kick my a$$ let alone a customer
who has bought there vechile to our shop and are paying for the work to be done.
(as mine were free:))

in all seriousness if this was my car i would be 100% in taking it further.
but each to there own i guess.
mate you hade to fork out the cash to by the car you wanted and obviuosly you wanted it to look good which = detailing
now when someone who is suppoused to be a professonal at what they do then the should be able to do it....

the one thing i was told by my boss and he would repeat it all the time was
"when you clean someone elses car you should treat it like its you own"

anyway just my thoughts
cheers mate
ben

yeah haha but thing is hes a pretty scary bloke (biker beard, rides a harley, pretty aggressive if u get on his bad side i think) and he knows where i live, cos he picked up dads car when he detailed it once... so i dont wanna get too nasty lol. but it certainly would be nice to have my money back and a perfect paint finish... hey if anyones got mafia connections on ozlib... jus kiddin