Filed under: Car Buying, Hatchbacks, GM
New owner welcomes Vauxhall VXR Astra with most comprehensive car wash ever
The arrival of a new car in your garage is a lot like returning home from your honeymoon. For the first month, you wash the car every other day to show off its hot body. A couple months go by and you're still washing it every weekend. After six months, you find the time for a wipe down once a month. After a year, though, you're happy when it rains and washes the salt off.
For this English gentleman and his new Vauxhall Astra VXR, however, the honeymoon will likely last longer than most. We have never seen a new car owner go to such incredible lengths to make sure his new ride is showing its best side. To say that he "detailed" the car would be a gross understatement. Most detail jobs don't involve washing the car with 100 litres of zero ppm RO water, inspecting the finish with a blue light gun for blemishes and applying a $7,118 wax job. We have to say though, after reading his thorough play-by-play of the process and viewing the before and after pics, it made a bigger difference to the car's appearance than we expected. [Source: Corsasport.co.uk via GM Inside News]
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DPC car videos 6:21PM (3/23/2007)
I can't belive he did all that to his Vauxhall VXR Astra, after reading the steps he took it makes this extreme detail:
http://www.dpccars.com/car-movies/04-20-06pageExtremeCarDetailing.htm
look not that bad, after all the guy in the video is detailing million dollar cars.
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DPC car videos 6:25PM (3/23/2007)
oops, its the same guy as the video. I guess he details all cars.
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al 6:27PM (3/23/2007)
Why is the 12in Powerbook running Windows XP? How is that possible?
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Rob 6:45PM (3/23/2007)
#3, where the hell have you been? Macs have been able to boot windows for quite a while now.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
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why not the LS2LS7? 6:49PM (3/23/2007)
Wow, the car looks great. Especially the seats and headlamps.
I'm impressed. Kinda crazy with the dough though.
Rob:
12" PBs use PowerPC processors, not Intel. They can't run bootcamp. This guy must be running VirtualPC or something. That means it's running XP VERY slowly. I feel for the guy. He must love his Mac a lot to go through that.
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idawson 6:54PM (3/23/2007)
That's gonna hurt that much more when he is cruising down the highway and meets a rock recently spiked by a truck. But bless him anyways. An inspiration to wash my well-soiled Montero.
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djSyndrome 7:02PM (3/23/2007)
"4. #3, where the hell have you been? Macs have been able to boot windows for quite a while now."
Not a 12" PowerBook - those only came with G4 chips. I'm guessing VPC or some other Windows emulator was employed to run XP.
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MikeW 7:06PM (3/23/2007)
Someone has an obsessive compulsive disorder.
Why doesn't he just X-Pel the whole car?
http://www.xpel.com/products/default.asp
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Anthony Damonse 7:28PM (3/23/2007)
We can love our cars, we just can't LOVE our cars.
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Ty 7:39PM (3/23/2007)
rofl!
It says my IP address is banned even though I've never been to corsasport.co.uk site, much less heard of it.
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HotRodzNKustoms 8:01PM (3/23/2007)
I wish I was that good lol
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Bob 8:05PM (3/23/2007)
Is this the right time for the first Autoblog Intervention Hooker Fund?
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aaron 10:28PM (3/23/2007)
It may be a $7000 wax job, but the actual stuff is refilled for LIFE. Sounds like a good deal to me....and I'm broke.
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buyayo 3:33AM (3/24/2007)
What do you expect, the guy who owns the Vaux works at Zymöl (the company that makes the uber-expensive wax), and consulted probably the most famous car washing guy in the world who details exotic cars for a living (if your claim to fame is washing cars, then you better be that obsessed with clean, sparkling cars). I think the results look pretty good :)
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buyayo 3:45AM (3/24/2007)
Excerpt from an article from The Guardian (Dalton is the car detailer):
The end result is astonishing - like looking into pure money. But what, really, is the point? Surely after a few showers the car is dirty again? "No, no, no, no, no, no," says Dalton in horror. "The rain just beads off. This will last a year. One wash and it'll be back looking awesome. One of my clients has a Jensen Interceptor. He put it in for a competition. He was late. You get points deducted for that. And he got caught in a shower en route. He still won"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1765020,00.html
Thats pretty cool.
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iQuack 4:10AM (3/24/2007)
Beautiful! All shiny and spotlessly clean. If I were a pigeon I'd be circling over it now;-).
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gesta 6:16AM (3/24/2007)
So, this particular Astra was delivered in matte finish?
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bobby d 9:50AM (3/24/2007)
I bet you could get 95% of his results with a high-speed buffer and off-the-shelf products totalling less than $100.
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irony... 1:06PM (3/24/2007)
the factory paint job is probably worth less than $800.
it is sort of like putting $3000 rims on a car that is worth $1200.
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paul34 1:38PM (3/24/2007)
never met a guy like this, eh?
I guess you've never visited
www.autopia.org ;)
Although, we don't usually waste $7,000 on wax...
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