How do you know you have OCD?

"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle) 01/02/2014 at 11:07 • Filed to: None

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"Now this I was really upset about, although you couldn't see it as it was under carpet it was there.....I asked Basil if it was possible to get to this after the ice install was done, so I could get it re-sprayed over as it ruins the white...Absolute vandalism of my car when building..."

now go skim this guys entire detail/build thread, I'd hate to be critical of a car fan, but this MIGHT be taking it too far

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthre…

505Turbeaux > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:13

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that is beyond OCD. Why do you want your car that clean anyhow. Paint thickness tests? Jaysus

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:18

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1. I'm very particularly and probably have what could be clinically diagnosed as a mild case of OCD

2. I understand that when you're buying a new car you want the best possible quality.

3. I worked as an assistant to a VERY high quality detailing specialist when I was in high school and I understand the attention to detail that dudes of this caliber pay to the condition and quality of paint on a car.

All of that said: potentially "rejecting" a car for VERY minor paint issues and asking for resprays of factory markings that are under the carpet and calling it vandalism?

GO. FUCK. YOURSELF. I've never been so angry while reading something on the internet about something I like. I should side with this guy because I understand where this is all coming from, but this is fucking insane. This is where you have a legitimate problem.

And yet his grammar/formatting skills are atrocious. Go figure.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:22

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51 coats of wax over 3 weeks? Every other day washes? How are you supposed to enjoy driving your car? How do you have time for anything else in life?

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > 505Turbeaux 01/02/2014 at 11:23

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Paint thickness tests are a pretty standard practice in detailing, provides baselines for paint thickness and helps determine how far you have gone/can go when doing correction.

However, the rest of his cooky-ass cult shit is mind boggling.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:26

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Sorry to be commenting and ranting again, but I think this captures my issue with this guy:

i also decided to do something a little bit different and celebrate the car through the engine bay

He has no interest in the car other than for how it looks.

MonkeePuzzle > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 01/02/2014 at 11:27

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not true, he later adds a sway bar, which he paints white and adds layers of wax to, because he claims he was concerned about how aggressive cornering felt. I umm, didn't beleive him. I don't think this car saw aggressive cornering ever.

Jayhawk Jake > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:29

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I get being particular, but this guy is insane

Once the salesman had left i inspected the car then got my Paint aDepth Guage out and measured the paintwork on all panels to ensure that no accidental damage had been done and that no panels had been blowed over as i would have rejected the car instantly , i cant have that....

It's a car. If you can't see any issues, there's no need to reject the car.

Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:35

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This guy has issues, but I would totally buy a car secondhand from him.

MonkeePuzzle > Jayhawk Jake 01/02/2014 at 11:36

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he notes an imperfection that is less than one millimetre in size later, and sounded like he considered returning the car. sounded a little like his buddies had to talk him down off a ledge, convincing him it was barely noticable

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:36

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Dear God:

i clean my wheels at least 4 maybe 5 times a week and to do these took me 90 minutes from start to finish

Victorious Secret > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 01/02/2014 at 11:42

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This. Going into cutting without knowing the thickness is a nice way of needing a new paint job real fast (Bless you DA polishers, bless your destructive powers)

Victorious Secret > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:44

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That is not OCD.

OCD is a genuinely crippling affliction to those that have it, the end results are not amusing to witness at all. I've dealt with (still have one guy) who has OCD, nothing about it is worth cracking a joke over, cause the littlest things set it off and its tragic that they are compelled to go overboard in their responses.

This guy?

This guy is just a dick. A pompous dick maybe.

MonkeePuzzle > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 01/02/2014 at 11:46

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as if you could afford it! I imagine it'd be SO overpriced

signintokinjalol > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:51

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I can't judge him. Say all you want but that's one of the best show builds i'I've ever seen for detailing and slight modifying.

Jayhawk Jake > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 11:53

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Yeah, I posted before reading through the thread. The dude is fucking insane.

I mean how much money has he put into that VXR?! Replacing each individual LED in the dash was where I just couldn't bear to continue...

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 12:22

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I won't say that I'm as bad as this guy, but the reason I mostly buy beaters and hardly ever detail my cars is that I'm NEVER satisfied. A cheap DD beater does not need a wash every day, or a layer of wax every/every other week, but I know that if I bought a brand new car I would end up faaaaaar down the rabbit hole.

Let's just say that I have two friends that paint cars for a living, and one that does detailing, and neither of them will let me visit them at work... why? Because I always find a tiny blemish or something, and they would never be able to actually finish a job with me around..

OCD? You bet, but I deal with it by getting cars I really don't care about.

davedave1111 > Victorious Secret 01/02/2014 at 12:27

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Not everyone is affected by OCD in the same way. Some people have greater or lesser problems with it.

In fact, part of the problem with our stigmatisation of all these kinds of mental illness is that really it's not some completely abnormal condition that sets someone apart as a freak, but something completely normal taken to an abnormal degree. There's a whole spectrum, and just because we only label people as having a certain condition when they have it really strongly doesn't mean it's not something very common in much lesser amounts.

The guy with the cleaning fetish clearly has a strong streak of the OCD tendencies, although if he's managed to divert them into cleaning his car that's a good way to handle it.

davedave1111 > Jayhawk Jake 01/02/2014 at 12:29

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"I mean how much money has he put into that VXR?"

Each to his own, but yeah. He lives in a pov-hovel, but spends £10k on car wax?!

davedave1111 > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 12:37

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Wow, that is totally mental. I mean, if he's enjoying himself and feels he's got good value for his money that's his business, but clearly someone's been blowing smoke up his arse. Crack smoke. Most of what he did to 'correct' the paint was only in his head.

What find weirdest is that he's bothered by stuff you can't see, but as OCD as he is, the bits that actually do bother me slightly he has no problem with.

This is pretty minor, but how hard would it be to cut the shrink-wrap off straight?

The sound-proofing won't be seen either, but it looks like shit.

And his custom-covered parcel shelf is just god-awful quality.

Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 12:47

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The guy would probably "clean" the car and add $10k to the price.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > davedave1111 01/02/2014 at 12:52

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Also, if you look at the handle he had installed on his subwoofer enclosure, it's crooked. That made me smile.

MonkeePuzzle > davedave1111 01/02/2014 at 13:24

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yeah, I thought that too about the sound deadening, cut all sorts of crooked and raggedy. And he was there, he kept saying how he stopped the guy so he could clean glue off from behind the sound deadening.

efme > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 14:11

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you buy a white car to hide defects. why go through all that trouble? I bet he was so scared to drive his car too

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > MonkeePuzzle 01/02/2014 at 20:57

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People actually put those kind of marks back on a car when restoring it. I am in that school of thought. Return it to factory, not "better" than factory. Include all stamps, overspray, orange peel, stickers, tags, chalk marks, etc...