Keeping an Exotic Clean at an Auto Show

Speaking with Dale Courville, the gentleman behind keeping both Ferrari and Maserati polished at this year’s Canadian Auto Show.

Those aren’t dealer cars but shipped direct from the factory,
run through a pop-up wash, then everything is pre-stolen.

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

The ending – where he uses his access to turn the bullied kid into the class VIP.

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If you’re in the Southern Ontario region, Dale also has a mobile car wash, and does a ton of the exotics you see around Toronto, as in, your Civic will be in good hands. Here’s his site – PrecisionDetail.ca

And if you’re unfamiliar with going to a detailer, here’s an old column of what to do and say.

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Yesterday’s Car Breaking Adventure

Monday is Car Swap Day.  My Jetta had been sitting for 3.5 weeks, it was dead, so I went looking for a jump.

The security guard gave me a safety vest, and sent me into the Chrysler warehouse to look.

Sure we can help, they said. And then they let me gawk around.  Such a massive building. No matter which corner I looked down, it kept going.

So cool. And so the exact opposite of my business – an 11″ laptop + blog.

Hop on the back of this little yellow cart, Keri.

Okay!

Doesn’t take much to make me happy, eh.

Off to the journalist parking lot, boost, it turns over, thank you bye now! But then the engine stopped again.  Now it won’t turn over.  Huh.

Wait, a pickup truck appears, who’s this? It’s the owner of the detail shop that cares for the Chrysler fleet, Andrew Ross, and Danny Smith, hi guys!

Please yes, don’t know what’s wrong. We all call people, and hold our phones inside the engine… wait wait… pull off the distributor cap… ahHA.

It’s the world’s most burnt-out distributor cap.

No spark, no engine.

Come on Keri, let’s go look if there’s a replacement at the shop. Okay!

And THERE WAS.

Non-car nerds: the odds of there being this part, for a 1999 Volkswagen, are ridiculous. The math on that is astronomical, winning-the-lottery odds.

Wizard auto shop.

Go too: CarCareExtraordinaire.ca Mississauga 905 567-6644

(if you’ve never been to one, I wrote a column, “When going to a detail shop, do this“)

 

 

Going to a Detail Shop? Do This

Tips and tricks for taking your car to a detail shop.

(read it online)

Favourite lines:

Remove the weird stuff you’re hiding in your trunk from whomever.

You’d be surprised at how many people keep weapons in their vehicle’s gloveboxes (remember that, next time your road rage out on another driver).

A toothbrush for the vents in the dash.

A micro-fibre cloth dusts the interior, no chemicals needed.

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