Had Humdrum detailed this morning!

"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike)
11/02/2019 at 19:53 • Filed to: Detailing, Svended, Hyundai Accent

Yes, I could’ve done it myself but our ShopVac is broken at home and our ‘house’ vacuum cleaner is an old-school built-in unit (you know, the kind that is mounted in a utility room somewhere and you plug the hose into the wall), so I don’t really have any way to vacuum it out.

At any rate, the price was right ($100 CAD) and I paid an extra $15 for them to do a restoration on my very cloudy/UV-damaged passenger side headlight. If you’ll remember, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! as it had a crack in it.

Took about 4 hours. I took two walks...one out and about to stretch my legs, and another down the street to get some lunch. During the first walk, I went down a very narrow, disused gravel side street and saw this house - must’ve been beautiful when it was brand new, but not in a bad state of disrepair...lots of visible rot, one of the front posts that supports the verandah roof is falling over (second one in from the right) and there is junk everywhere. People are still living there too...0_o

As for my Accent, Humdrum is ridiculously clean now...the inside looks BRAND new (other than the few scratches here and there on the mostly-hard-plastic interior of a car that has done almost 170,000kms)...and smells pleasant as he put in a very nice black cherry-scented air freshener. :P

They even washed the outside for free (including scrubbing my rims, of which the front rims were coated in brake dust before!). I’m almost scared to drive it to get it dirty, haha!

You definitely see nicks and spots up close in the paint, and I am still waiting for the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! because he did it wrong......but otherwise, this is the best she’s looked in years!

DISCUSSION (19)

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/02/2019 at 20:02

Clean cars are the best car. Looks great, especially the wheels.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/02/2019 at 20:10

Humdrum looks great!

arl > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/02/2019 at 20:11

Headlights looking good!

Nothing ages a car more than faded headlights (IMHO).

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/02/2019 at 20:19

She looks great.

But we’ll have to get you sorted out.

Are you on DriveTribe?

MM54 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/02/2019 at 20:19

Looks good! A clean car is a happy car.

Grindintosecond > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/02/2019 at 20:41

Would be a great house if it were given attention. Other old homes like that in the area? Good neighborhood?

Chariotoflove > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/02/2019 at 20:49

Good price for a full detail. Enjoy!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Chariotoflove
11/02/2019 at 21:16

I thought it w asn’t too bad! That was technically the price for just a good interior detail, plus the cost of the headlight resto. But they did a complementary wash on the outside, which was really nice of them!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > arl
11/02/2019 at 21:21

Yup, the UV-damaged old one was pretty noticeable compared to the replaced new one (replaced driver’s side light vs. pre-restore passenger light for comparison - you can see the cloudy/haziness on the passenger light on the top-half) :

Kinja'd!!!

Those pics are from just after I installed the new driver’s light, so the passenger light was even worse by now, though nowhere near as bad as I’ve seen on some cars!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Grindintosecond
11/02/2019 at 21:22

Lunenburg is full of older homes, especially in ‘Old Town’ - it’s a UNESCO site. :)

On the map, most of the nicest older homes are in the ‘grided’ section of streets in the middle of the map. The one in my pic is farther left just above where ‘Stelia North America’ (an aerospace parts company) is located.
https://www.explorelunenburg.ca/town-map.html

https://www.explorelunenburg.ca/photo-and-video-gallery.html

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > MM54
11/02/2019 at 22:11

Thanks! My mind is still boggled by how clean it is inside now, lol. I’ve vacuumed it out a few times since I got it in April 2013, but this is the first proper cleaning it’s gotten since then...looks mint, haha!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Svend
11/02/2019 at 22:12

I am, though I rarely check it at all compared to Oppo?

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/02/2019 at 22:12

Thanks, she turned out really well! :D

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
11/02/2019 at 22:14

Thanks! The wheels are from a ‘98 Ford Escort wagon but they seem to fit the car really well!

ranwhenparked > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/02/2019 at 22:53

Looks like a mid 19th century Italianate, with some later Colonial Revival additions. Not too far gone yet, just needs some attention and $$$$.

Svend > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/02/2019 at 22:59

I'll have to find you and PM my e-mail address.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > ranwhenparked
11/03/2019 at 06:59

I think it looks better in the picture, it was PRETTY rough in person, and you can’t see how far back that one post was leaning that holds the front verandah roof...it was leaning backwards by like 20 degrees.....

ranwhenparked > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/03/2019 at 09:02

Yeah, but that's not original to the house anyway

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > ranwhenparked
11/03/2019 at 09:42

True, that was just an example of how rough it was :(