Originally Posted by s2k_Nut,May 12 2008, 07:29 PM

I am sure that can be arranged Mikey, weather dependant of course (just realised you have a garage though, so could be done any time regardless of weather ), give me an IM lets sort out a time.

Originally Posted by s2k_Nut,May 12 2008, 08:26 PM

Thanks for the supportive words people, to answer your question WayneS2 unfortunately yes it is common practice with the 'Saturday lad' that gets to wash the cars before they go to their customer. To be honest the dealers are only trying to help, and the guy doing the washing is probably thinking he is doing a good job. But all too often they don't realise using that same cloth they just wiped their oily hands on, or the same chamois they just 'washed' the 5th car today with, is actually akin to using a brillo pad on the paint. Just ignorance, inexperience, but good intentions.

Swirl marks are not just instilled by the dealers though, there will be a lot of people with swirls on their cars who do actually know how to clean their cars properly and get frustrated as they can't understand where the little blighter's come from, without a machine polisher they are unable to remove the swirls. These swirls are swirls from everyday driving, think about it they are called swirls for good reason, the air swirls dust particles around your car, and these fine grains of dust/sand minutely scratch the surface of your car in a circular motion. Very few hand products will get this out, hence the 'power' of the orbital polisher, safe to use and with a little tuition anyone can do it, its not rocket science just patiently working in small areas let the machine do the job and smoothly remove your swirls.