I Hope If It's Alright If...
05-31-2018, 03:11 PM
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Re: I Hope If It's Alright If...
Had the car for two weeks and it's already been back in the shop for a week today. Nothing bad, it's actually good.
Brought it home and first thing I did was wax it, in doing so I noticed that the large red stripes were decals. I thought they were painted on. So I got to looking at them and the right hand stripe, drivers side, was off pretty bad. Maybe not to some but to me, it was bad, more than an 1/8 of an inch, and further inspection of the stripes I found kinks in them on the bottom of the rear air foil. I told my salesman I didn't mean to be overly nit picky, but that just wasn't acceptable on a car of this caliber, which very might be in a car show at some point, and even he had to admit that it was a really crappy job. So, he did agreed that they should be redone, and that they'd have someone else other than the first person that came to the dealer to put them on, to redo them. I left the car at the dealer and later that afternoon I got a call from my salesman who asked if I'd want them PAINTED on, and I could hardly believe they'd offer to do that. Turns out their body shop manager used to do high end paint jobs on hotrods, bikes and boats and was really good, and said he could paint the stripes on and do a killer job, so I couldn't agree more and express how grateful I was. Got an update from him today and they're still working on it. I guess they're going over the entire car and making sure the paint and stripes are flawless. After all, it is brand new. Granted I am a good customer at this dealer and have given them a lot of business, and this is the second high end vehicle I've bought from them, but as far as dealers go, they have been extra good to me and I couldn't be happier.
Now, question, when I was cleaning the sludge off the inside of the windows I found I couldn't even get my hand down to the bottom of the windshield in front of the gauges, or the bottom of the back window, so obviously I have find something to wrap a rag around to work all the way down there, so my question is, what do others use for this? Anything work good that you have used?
Thanks!
Brought it home and first thing I did was wax it, in doing so I noticed that the large red stripes were decals. I thought they were painted on. So I got to looking at them and the right hand stripe, drivers side, was off pretty bad. Maybe not to some but to me, it was bad, more than an 1/8 of an inch, and further inspection of the stripes I found kinks in them on the bottom of the rear air foil. I told my salesman I didn't mean to be overly nit picky, but that just wasn't acceptable on a car of this caliber, which very might be in a car show at some point, and even he had to admit that it was a really crappy job. So, he did agreed that they should be redone, and that they'd have someone else other than the first person that came to the dealer to put them on, to redo them. I left the car at the dealer and later that afternoon I got a call from my salesman who asked if I'd want them PAINTED on, and I could hardly believe they'd offer to do that. Turns out their body shop manager used to do high end paint jobs on hotrods, bikes and boats and was really good, and said he could paint the stripes on and do a killer job, so I couldn't agree more and express how grateful I was. Got an update from him today and they're still working on it. I guess they're going over the entire car and making sure the paint and stripes are flawless. After all, it is brand new. Granted I am a good customer at this dealer and have given them a lot of business, and this is the second high end vehicle I've bought from them, but as far as dealers go, they have been extra good to me and I couldn't be happier.
Now, question, when I was cleaning the sludge off the inside of the windows I found I couldn't even get my hand down to the bottom of the windshield in front of the gauges, or the bottom of the back window, so obviously I have find something to wrap a rag around to work all the way down there, so my question is, what do others use for this? Anything work good that you have used?
Thanks!
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05-31-2018, 05:38 PM
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There's any number of this type of glass cleaning tools available. I have something similar, not sure which brand.
https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Master-.../dp/B000AS917U
https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Master-.../dp/B000AS917U
Pretty sad though that I can't even get my hand between the the top of the gauge cluster and the windshield, or between the back deck and the rear window either, it's tight.
Think I'll look for a large plastic spatula with a strong handle and just cannibalize a microfiber cloth and wrap it on it.
Thanks for the tip!
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