💦 Detailing C8 before the dealership "prepped" it and after

[Mook]

From another site.

Except dealerships are stupid fucks who don't listen. Sent him pictures of adhesive and that they removed it. Likely used thinner and a filthy shop rag to do it. If Corvettes weren't so hard to get (he waited 8 months) he would have refused it. 350 miles on it. Looked like shit.

Whole car, especially the parting line and up was like this.

After Oberk Supreme Cut and a Buff n Shine burgundy foam pad.

4 hours of just compounding. Didn't finish with everything until dusk. Oberk Supreme Cut, Optimum Hyper Polish and Opti-Coat Pro.

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[Turk]

Pretty standard. When I ordered my m3 I told them not to touch it when it was delivered.

 

[Mook]

Bonus Q50 content

2017 Q50. Coated it about a year and a half ago. Since then he's about doubled the power, had the rear fenders widened and got hit on the driver's side. The body shop he uses mostly does okay on the paint but the follow up is trash and this is by far the worst it's been.

Oberk and Hyper Polish to the rescue. Several hours of compounding again and only did about half the car (rest has PPF.). Now he'll have the PPF on the driver's door and fender reapplied, plus completely wrap the rear bumper this time. And have me coat it again.

 

[dun4791]

Dealers for the most part suck. Detailer has skills. C8 look so good to me.

 

[ZXMustang]

I mean yeah dealers are ham fisted monkeys with enthusiast cars. You could bring a cobalt in without a scratch and have the whole car torn down to nuts and bolts, then reassembled and washed by the sweatiest pimple face porter they have, and it would be better than how you dropped it off. You bring in a pristine corvette or camaro for an oil change and you will get it back with 5k more miles and a laundry list of scratches, damage, oily interior and a new rod knock. It never fails. Bring in moms minivan and you will get the best service of your life, along with an Escalade loaner. Bring in the C8, and leave with the service manager's business card and a bleeding asshole.

 

[Shawn1112]

Pretty standard. When I ordered my m3 I told them not to touch it when it was delivered.

Told my brother the same with his Bronco when it comes in this Spring.

 

[Stink Star]

To be fair the Vettes do come off the truck with tyvec house wrap material glued onto every exterior surface. It’d be impossible to have one delivered that looks like it had 4 hours of cutting and buffing.

 

[greasy]

I fully expect dealer prep to be shit and I laugh when people complain that it is not perfect. They are a car dealership, not a master detail shop.

 

[Lead Pipe]

Cry me a river, the guy had to buff swirl marks out of a black car. Corvette people really annoy me.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Porters should not have buffers or compound available to them, period. Lexus did the same thing with my wife's last car.

Bumping this up. We ended up buying the car because the holograms were barely noticeable when we picked it up. I think they must have used some filler wax because after a couple washes they were TERRIBLE. I ordered a blackfire swirl remover kit that worked perfectly

Pics. It's a little cloudy right now so these images aren't perfect comparisons, but you can't see a single hologram on the entire car now. I'm gonna send these to the dealer and tell them they really need to change their practices







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[The Beast]

Porters should not have buffers or compound available to them, period. Lexus did the same thing with my wife's last car.

Conrad I think I posted this on your thread but some cars come like that from the factory off the truck. Especially black vehicles.

It’s fucked up the plant let’s them go this way. But most plant workers are lazy anyway.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Conrad I think I posted this on your thread but some cars come like that from the factory off the truck. Especially black vehicles.

It’s fucked yo the plant let’s them go this way. But most plant workers are lazy anyway.

I didn’t know that

 

[SirMarco]

Being a porter many, many years ago, I get pissed when I take delivery of a new car.
When I worked at Hopkins Ford we had to make sure every inch of that vehicle were spotless when delivered. Inside, outside, door jams, engine bay, etc.
My last 3 new vehicles have come to me "clean" basic run through the wash and wipe down. Maybe a vacuum. That is it though. Where is the standards at now a days. When it came to anything on the paint or windows that could cause damage, we would have an expert come in and handle it as to not damage any of the finish.

 

[Stink Star]

Last car I bought (my Honda) still had half the PDI plastic on it and still like the door jambs and hatch opening were dirty as fuck. It was really lazy and when I brought it back to complain I got blank stares like they didn’t understand somebody buying a new car wanted it clean when they took delivery. That combined with them not showing me a single feature about the infotainment except for “this is how the volume goes up and down” makes me hate car salesmen. To this day I still don’t understand why my car connects to my phones WIFI for seemingly no reason

 

[The Beast]

Porters are not trained well. If you want your vehicle cleaned well you have to do it yourself or pay a pro.

 

[SirMarco]

Porters are not trained well. If you want your vehicle cleaned well you have to do it yourself or pay a pro.

When I was one, the sales person would inspect the car prior to delivery. If it wasn't to their liking they would let us know and we fixed it. Don't like this new lazy way now a days.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Least amount of effort to get the most amount of profit. Why do more when they know they can get away with it 90% of the time? For that other 10%, eh, they're not going to lose any sleep over it.

 

[Huggerorange73]

Cry me a river, the guy had to buff swirl marks out of a black car. Corvette people really annoy me.

You are Corvette people.

 

[The Beast]

When I was one, the sales person would inspect the car prior to delivery. If it wasn't to their liking they would let us know and we fixed it. Don't like this new lazy way now a days.

It’s like that all dealers

 

[Turk]

This is also why I learned how to polish. 10 years ago I would lose sleep over swirls like that. Now I consider it a mild inconvenience because I have the knowledge and tools to fix it myself.

 

[VenomousDSG]

Making a mountain out of a molehill... hardly a big deal.

 

[DanJ]

Porters should not have buffers or compound available to them, period. Lexus did the same thing with my wife's last car.

Filler wax for sure. I bought a certified pre owned MK6 GTI that looked great when I bought it. After a few washes it looked like they let a child with a rotary buffer loose on it

 

[The Beast]

Filler wax for sure. I bought a certified pre owned MK6 GTI that looked great when I bought it. After a few washes it looked like they let a child with a rotary buffer loose on it

I’ve seen that a 1000 times lol

 

[The Beast]

It’s just glaze and spray wax they use at detail shops that the dealer pays for around $150-175 for a complete detail.

 

[frank]

My fav was the air brush crew where it looks nice for the sale but washes off after a few car washes.

as noted above, when I was a porter at a dealer my delivery of new and used were spotless, managers would go over the cars before anyone took it off the lot. But I was at olds, Mazda, Acura and Porsche dealer.

When I worked as a porter we were not allowed to high speed buff anything, would do our best if any scratches were on the car, if bad enough we would make a we owe and have the customer come back., but As a porter we couldn’t high speed buff cars but at 16 years old were able to rack a car ( union shop ) and do a package “A” which was spray undercoating, rust protection, fabric shield and my fav acid rain protection.