Detailing?

[88KPH]

Experts? Hahaha its called cleaning.
Whip the seats out and spend a few hours not thinking about your new business and save lots of bucks.
Good news all round!

[mluder]

I would have no issue letting some of the hooters girls wash the car, or one of those detail places detail (aka valet) the interior - it's only carpet and leather.

And a couple of irreplaceable items - Like turn signal stalks, digital clock, factory stereo.
Also if you're not careful you can break off the trip reset shaft wiping down the binnacle and instrument cluster... ask me how I know.

Cheers
Steven

[David T]

True Dat! On all points...what the heck is wrong with you David?

I didn't say take it to a car wash! I said take it to a "high end" shop. The really good high end shops work on cars worth many times more than a Delorean and can be trusted to do a good job. Touching up the graining is not all that hard and any detailer would paint and touch up a car to fix minor damage. In this case they can't touch up the paint, they would sand/blend out any scratches. I agree the owner should participate in the car of his car but not everyone has the time or the inclination or the place, and is perfectly happy to pay someone to do it. Just like not every owner will try to fix the mechanical or electrical systems of the car. Everyone enjoys their car in different ways. It is not so bad if an owner doesn't want to take care of his car just so long as he sees to it it IS taken care of! That way he can spend more quality time DRIVING it!

[Michael]

I didn't say take it to a car wash! I said take it to a "high end" shop. The really good high end shops work on cars worth many times more than a Delorean and can be trusted to do a good job....

And I never said there was anything wrong with allowing someone to clean your car especailly if you don't have time. However letting someone near your car with a handful of 80 grit and a pat on the back is not my idea of instruction. Sure they may work on a 400,000 dollar Lamborghini but knowing how to wash a car does not in itself qualify you to regrain the stainless finish on a DeLorean.

PS I have been "touching up" paint on cars professionally for the past 12 years, trust me it's not as easy as dabbing paint on with a matchstick and I wouldn't trust a detailer to do that either. Furthermore the OP never inquired about regraining, just a wash. You made a big jump there.

[dtavres]

Thanks all... great feedback.

I think I've got my answer

• I DO want to know MY car inside and out - so I'll "detail" it myself.
• I would never let a random person who didn't know DeLoreans touch the SS - just the interior.
• I have felt the same way about having someone else clean/touch my car without me being right there (excluding DMC), so I don't think I'll ever be leaving it for someone else to clean.
• I'm all for letting bikini-clad women wash the outside. lol

Thanks again!

[16949]

Personally, I would never let anyone else detail it. Would you let another man sleep with your wife?

Let alone use a groupon! Blasphemy! Sacrilege!

It will never shine the same again if you let another wash it. It must be washed with our sweat and tears. Nothing less. Otherwise it will view you as unworthy and it will splinter into a thousand microscopic rubber cracks that will require you to make the hero's journey to make it whole by repairing and replacing 1000 parts.

That is all.

[Nicholas R]

It must be washed with our sweat and tears. Nothing less.

How do you collect your sweat and tears for washing? Is there some process where you sit in a sauna wrapped in a towel and then ring the towel out into a bucket? Does it make your car smell weird when you wash it? Just want to be sure I know how to maximize tear and sweat volume. Tears must be even harder.

[16949]

How do you collect your sweat and tears for washing? Is there some process where you sit in a sauna wrapped in a towel and then ring the towel out into a bucket? Does it make your car smell weird when you wash it? Just want to be sure I know how to maximize tear and sweat volume. Tears must be even harder.

No, it smells like angel hair. Because that, or in case of emergency, virgin hair, must be used to wash it. Luckily, if you're a female owner, there are endless male virgins willing to wash it with the hair still on their head.

The sweat occurs naturally, when big boisterous people approach it with meat hands. You just need an apparatus to collect the sweat. I think one of the DMCABC123 tinkerers can sell you such a thing. As for the tears, you have to remember the tear collecting jar when you replace (the wrong) parts. Keep it simple!

ETA: If you cry more from your left eye, you may be in trouble as they didn't order as many left eye collecting jars and what does exist is being squirreled away for kit car cleaning.

[DMC-81]

No, it smells like angel hair. Because that, or in case of emergency, virgin hair, must be used to wash it. Luckily, if you're a female owner, there are endless male virgins willing to wash it with the hair still on their head.

The sweat occurs naturally, when big boisterous people approach it with meat hands. You just need an apparatus to collect the sweat. I think one of the DMCABC123 tinkerers can sell you such a thing. As for the tears, you have to remember the tear collecting jar when you replace (the wrong) parts. Keep it simple!

ETA: If you cry more from your left eye, you may be in trouble as they didn't order as many left eye collecting jars and what does exist is being squirreled away for kit car cleaning.

Good one!

I agree. I will let somebody else wash my daily driven grocery getter, but never the Delorean.

[David T]

Proper detailing of a car is so much more than a once-over cleaning. A professional job aims to clean but also minimize any defects, stains, scratches, etc, that the car may have. Treating the leather, tucking and fitting the carpet properly, polishing out any blemishes in the paint, and so forth. Talk to a pro and see what they actually can do. Some also do PDR (Paintless Dent Repair), fixing tears in the leather, shampooing the carpets, touching up the dying of the leather and the carpet, polishing out scratches and fixing chips in the glass, there is a whole lot more than a bucket of suds. A good job can take at least a whole day the first time and cost hundreds of dollars. There are some who have a truck and will go to your house and do it while you watch. It's kind of like a mini prep for a concours.