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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 09:32 AM
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Ford Five Hundred detail and paint correction

The swirls on this one were pretty bad. It's been washed twice at work when our department does their annual car wash (a lot of guys putting sponges and brushes on the ground, etc. ) and I believe it has been through a lot of automatic car washes. I was really happy how this one came out.

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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 09:32 AM
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 09:33 AM
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 09:36 AM
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Those guys should lose a man card for being that incompetent

On another note, I don't see a male carwash being all that profitable....I'm just saying

But, it turned out nice! Did you do the scratch repair yourself?
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by xun4gvn4everx
Those guys should lose a man card for being that incompetent

On another note, I don't see a male carwash being all that profitable....I'm just saying

But, it turned out nice! Did you do the scratch repair yourself?
LOL, the supervisors where we work (the guy with the Five Hundred and I work in the same department) wash the cars of our guys (115 cars in 5 hours) once a year as a reward for everyone's hard work. I try to yell at people for putting the sponges on the ground and other things like that but some of them don't really care or understand.

Thank you, all the work was done by me. I run a detailing business on weekends.
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 10:04 AM
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Wow, that is a lot of cars. Still, not caring about someone else's property is down right rude, especially when what you (they) are doing is suppose to be a reward.
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 10:12 AM
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I wish I had someone like this that could do this locally.
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 10:49 AM
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So is this your work or you had SOMEONE do it for you ? If so how much did they charge, im looking to get this done for 450 . If it is your work what polish did you use to get those swirls out ?? My swirls are frustrating me
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 12:46 PM
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So is this your work or you had SOMEONE do it for you ? If so how much did they charge, im looking to get this done for 450 . If it is your work what polish did you use to get those swirls out ?? My swirls are frustrating me
This is my work, I run the business on weekends and I'm the only employee to this point.

This was a ten hour job @ $30/hour. I work by the hour, unless a customer has a spending limit, then we talk about what I can get done for $x.xx.

I used a combination of the Griot's Garage polishes to achieve these results. Where are you located?
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Old Sep 10, 2010 | 02:04 PM
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Wow that's impressive.. I should really get something like this done.
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Old Oct 14, 2010 | 08:39 PM
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Thanks man. You should, it's cheaper than paint work! lol
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Old Oct 15, 2010 | 01:48 AM
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Vehicle is not a RX8 or even a rotary car. Moving to General Automotive.
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