Waxon Detailing Forum

Yesterday at work my director calls me and asks me to come take a look at his Toyota Prado........behold the power of children with sandpaper





Other side is basically the same with some patches sanded down to bare metal

I offered to have a go at fixing some of it but he declined. Apparently same child attacked 3 teachers vehicles (my directors wife is a teacher and she was using the car the day the incident happened) and the father has agreed to pay for all 3 vehicles to be repaired

lethal injection comes to mind......

I would sandpaper that kids face.

In the UK there is a lot of what is called "keying" which is basically someone walking past your car and dragging the sharp end of a key all the way down the side. Since most people over there park in the street at night (even fancy cars I might tell you), this is a major problem. I know of a lot of guys who have installed CCTV cameras pointing at their car to try and identify the culprits.

On a lighter note, my kids know that they are not allowed to drop one single crumb inside my car. But that doesn't stop them leaving my wifes car looking like a rubbish dump. But I let it go cos I would rather have one car in the family that is pristine.

It's a bit like the sacrificial anode that they put on yachts to take all the rust into one spot.

My kids (ages 5 and 8) help me out detailing. They get to do small trivial jobs like wiping down the wheels but they realize they helped make the car, as they say ~ "So shiny!" That in turn makes them want to keep it looking that way so they really do a great job in not dirtying up the cars, now if I could just get my wife to do this too.

As a kid, sandpapering a car would not have even crossed my mind.

My father would have simply "Terminated" my life.