It's a funny thing-you never know when the chickens come home to roost. Even though this thread is about trimming, it is not about Parks, but more so about trimming in general and how you can get yourself found out.
As most of you would know, foam that disappears from the front doors of our 116's is just about evident on all of our cars. The back ones not so, as MB used a different material and I have referred to this in another thread.
We had occasion just the other day to be asked to do all four door trims on a very well known Astral Silver 6.9 that has won its class at the MB Concourses for the last seven years running. So, this is no ordinary car, and it clearly "bears the scars" of a super fussy owner - it is totally immaculate in almost every respect. The owner of this car is not shy in spending 'big' whenever the car demands it, so it was with some surprise that initially he conveyed his feelings that the door trims needed to be done - why would he, as he had just cleaned up his class again with first place.
Anyway, as it turned out, the job had been done (on all four doors) some time previously by his local trimmer and it looked okay - most of us would have accepted it and not given it another thought. When we dismantled the door trims and removed the foam that had been used, we discovered that the trimmer had glued pieces of foam over other pieces cut from 'left overs' to thicken up the foam, instead of just utilizing one single piece with the correct thickness. Thus, the perforated Tex looked a little lumpy and uneven - as I said, most of us wouldn't have worried, but this owner did.
You can imagine his surprise, and annoyance, when he discovered the truth 'behind the scenes". Chances are that trimmer will never see the car again, and it just proves that one should not short cut with quality, nor skimp with materials because....you never know when the chickens come home to roost. Regards Styria
As most of you would know, foam that disappears from the front doors of our 116's is just about evident on all of our cars. The back ones not so, as MB used a different material and I have referred to this in another thread.
We had occasion just the other day to be asked to do all four door trims on a very well known Astral Silver 6.9 that has won its class at the MB Concourses for the last seven years running. So, this is no ordinary car, and it clearly "bears the scars" of a super fussy owner - it is totally immaculate in almost every respect. The owner of this car is not shy in spending 'big' whenever the car demands it, so it was with some surprise that initially he conveyed his feelings that the door trims needed to be done - why would he, as he had just cleaned up his class again with first place.
Anyway, as it turned out, the job had been done (on all four doors) some time previously by his local trimmer and it looked okay - most of us would have accepted it and not given it another thought. When we dismantled the door trims and removed the foam that had been used, we discovered that the trimmer had glued pieces of foam over other pieces cut from 'left overs' to thicken up the foam, instead of just utilizing one single piece with the correct thickness. Thus, the perforated Tex looked a little lumpy and uneven - as I said, most of us wouldn't have worried, but this owner did.
You can imagine his surprise, and annoyance, when he discovered the truth 'behind the scenes". Chances are that trimmer will never see the car again, and it just proves that one should not short cut with quality, nor skimp with materials because....you never know when the chickens come home to roost. Regards Styria
Well Bill, obviously not. I must admit, though, it is only in the last five to six years that I have come to appreciate the difference between 'so so' trimming and good quality work, especially as I have now the opportunity to look at work done by trimmers prior to Parks doing my work.
