Anyone else develop OCD due to the fact that you just can't: keep the dust out of those areas under the air vents? keep the dust off your dash? get your wheels clean enough? keep enough wax on the paint? get the chrome polished enough?

I love washing my car, it is a nice way for me to relax, but I am sure my neighbors either think I have 5 MINI's that are exactly the same that all need washing or the truth....I have a MINI case of ODC!

 

We need to make one of those 'owners club' logos for us detailing freaks.

'The OCMD Owners Club' - The Obsessive Compulsive MINI Detailing Owners Club'

I'll sign up for it!

 

Got home last night and thought, "just a little QD to freshen Matilda up a bit". An hour later, after wheel brake dust, boot brake dust, doing the trim and then doing the tires, oh and the QD of course, I finish in the dark. Rained last night so I'm thinking this morning "just a little QD to freshen Matilda up a bit".
The boot drives me crazy, it get so dirty. And the wheels !

I love my clean Mini

 

LOL! "Hi, my name's ImagoX and I'm a clean-a-holic".

 

And you know it seems to be spreading - Where I once could have given a flip about the garage, I'm now planning on epoxy coating the floor . Help!

 

I now know that I am a complete "clean-a-holic". My proof would be spending over an hour on sunday washing my Mini in the 100+ temperatures here in LA. Wow, that was a lot of work, but worth it. And don't worry, i did it in the shade.....but it was still 100.

 

I feel your pain.
I'm only just starting in this detailing thing and I'm scared it's going to consume all of my spare time.... Is there a support group?

 

honestly, i HATE washing cars... so im obsessed not to get it
dirty in the first place. (so the garage queens were born).

 

I only wash my cars in my garage...it serves 2 purposes:
1. Keeps it in the shade so the sun/wind doesn't dry it before I do
2. Keeps my garage floor squeeky clean, I just squeegy the water out when I'm done!

 

Zaino the garage floor ... hum

 

Yes

A JB MINI means I'm constantly washing and waxing my MINI.

 

No kidding!! I just told my wife I want to epoxy coat the garage floor, and she said "since when do you care?"

Since I am picking up my dream car in 2 weeks... duh!!

 

do you have a special panel on the walls and also the little strip of
plastic down the side on the floor to control the drainage?

if i had a 3 car garage, i would dedicate one bay for washing and
working on cars. until then, i'll have to wash on the driveway and
roll the car inside the garage to detail.

 

"brake dust!" ack!

i dont know if its just me, new pads, or different wheels, but i seem to get tons more brake dust on my 06 MCS than I did on my 03 MC. any reasoning behind this observation?

 

Hehe, similar here, except I got the "you want to WHAT? Why would you do that?"

 

I'd sign up for it too! I actually just got done washing/detailing my MINI. Except the interior which isn't bad at all!

 

Not exactly. There is a concrete 'lip' that runs around my garage floor, and my walls are painted with exterior semi-gloss or maybe satin paint, so they resist any water that might splash up or get sprayed on.

I move one car out and park the one being washed in the center of the 2-car side of my garage, which is 3-car, so this gives me plenty of room to wash it w/o getting things wet.

I also do all my detailing in the garage, door down, fluorescent lights on!!!

 

 

uhhh Newdl- you were obsessed BEFORE the MINI. You wash/wax the Hummer in the rain.... silly.

 

nice~! i need to save up for a bigger house.