[mixxer]

brake and gas pedals.

[Mindflux]

Originally Posted by Deep Gloss Auto Salon

DOOR JAMBS!!! I mean steam those suckers!! I hate seeing ANY grease in my jambs

I'd hope you are leaving grease in the jambs. Do your customers complain about their doors squeaking after a while?


The most missed areas I see are the vanity mirrors on sun visors, the shift 'track' on an automatic transmission vehicle and the B pillar jambs.

[Purplewidow]

i love this thread to Fminus!!!!

[Strs90]

Speaking of squels...

After i clean my wheels with P21S wheel gel my brakes sequeal for two weeks afterwards. Its impossible to not get some cleaner on the rotars.. but i rinse them heavily? I have started using a little brake parts cleaner on the rotors after I clean my wheels just to reduce the sequel. I have ceramic pads if it matters. Are others having these problems? Do customers ever complain about this?

[Deep Gloss Auto Salon]

Originally Posted by pektel

Jason :

I'm saying this without looking, but don't seat tracks have some type of grease/lubrication on them? What do you clean them with?

Originally Posted by Mindflux

I'd hope you are leaving grease in the jambs. Do your customers complain about their doors squeaking after a while?

Pektel & Flux: I re-grease the areas in a very controlled manner.. The thing is that over time the grease begins to attract debris and turn black.. new grease does not have that dirty color to it and and plus, when I re-apply the grease I do so in a very controlled manner to only the areas that need grease as opposed to the factory that just slops it on

[Mindflux]

Originally Posted by Deep Gloss Auto Salon

Pektel & Flux: I re-grease the areas in a very controlled manner.. The thing is that over time the grease begins to attract debris and turn black.. new grease does not have that dirty color to it and and plus, when I re-apply the grease I do so in a very controlled manner to only the areas that need grease as opposed to the factory that just slops it on

Bravo. I'd expect nothing less from you!

[littlemissGTO]

What I notice a lot is the insides of wheels. I know brake dust is a killer. In fact a couple of months ago someone commented on how clean the insides my wheels were and wanted to know what I used on them.

[pektel]

Nice, Jason! I knew you would do the proper thing. I have never touched that area because I didn't want to remove the grease. I don't know why I didn't think to just reapply it!

[SuperBee364]

Originally Posted by Deep Gloss Auto Salon

These are all very good... taking steps like these are what elevates you to the Autopian standard..... IMO if you have trouble remembering ANY of these items you should have a check list printed out to take with you on each and EVERY job...

I'll bite:

move the side view mirrors to vaious positions to thoroughly clean and protect.. when you move the mirror to a new position some of the housing that you did not get to becomes exposed

Remove head rests to polish the posts

Not only the pedals but the metal they are attached to

The area that becomes exposed once you open the sun roof (the slide area)

DOOR JAMBS!!! I mean steam those suckers!! I hate seeing ANY grease in my jambs

The spare tire area...

The seat tracks.

Yeesh, I'm guilty of every one of those. Just when I think I'm getting to be a good detailer, someone starts a "most missed areas..." thread, and I'm back to noob-central.

Great stuff... printed for my next interior.

[SuperBee364]

Originally Posted by Mindflux

I'd hope you are leaving grease in the jambs. Do your customers complain about their doors squeaking after a while?


The most missed areas I see are the vanity mirrors on sun visors, the shift 'track' on an automatic transmission vehicle and the B pillar jambs.

Crap. MORE stuff I need to add to the list. But in my defense, I've just now added interiors to my details. I've been exterior only til now.