Bob Willis "Autoconcierge"....simply amazing!!!

That's right Richard you know your car made the cut, did you pick up the STI Subaru yet?, I will call you tomorrow I received your voicemail tonight.

 

What is this colour on F430 C, not Titanio but ?
Very nice!

 

going to hopefully need you soon again Bob

 

time to call Bob again!!!
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Aaaah! You're scaring me, please stop!

 

Cripes!! You could EAT that bug stuck in your grill as a meal!!

 

Bob Willis detailed my car before a recent photo shoot with Alex Diaconou. Bob did a superb job. You can see the results here http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=204487.

 

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Here's the abbreviated car-guy story. I had our F355B detailed by a local detailer who came highly regarded on a German-car board. This detailer was mobile and came to my office and sold me a clay-n-wax job. Sure, I thought, why not ... it needed a good sprucing up anyway. Well, when my wife saw the results later in the day, she went quiet. We didn't touch the subject until it was late ... and then it popped up.

"That guy ruined the paint on the Ferrari," she said.
"Wha...?"
"Why did you ask him to clay it when all it needed was a wash? I could have done a better clay job!" She continued.

The tone of her voice was alarming, and the conversation just went downhill from there. All her previous work on the car, her efforts, were irreparably scratched away by this fellow. And she was very hurt that I'd entrusted the car to "some local detailer who came highly regarded on a German-car board." This went around and around for hours into the night, and there was nothing I could do to get myself out of it. Except to call in the expert. Yes, the expert, Bob Willis.

As soon as it was light, I dug up Bob's number from another F-Chat post and rang him up. He was on his way to a client, but remembered who I was and asked, "what can I do for you?"

"Bob, I need to dig myself out of a hole," I said. I continued with the tale above, and he listened emphatically. "April's really mad at me, and wanted me to sell the car because I don't know how to take care of it. I can't sell the Ferrari, Bob! You gotta help me!" Bob told me he was booked solid (this was leading up to Concorso Italiano / Historics weekend, oh what rotten timing), but he would find some way to take a look at the car as soon as he could.

Somehow, he found a slot open and came to see the car. It was worse than I'd described it ... there were swirls and gouges aplenty; highlighting the potential of damage when the operator (detailer) doesn't know the impact of the tools (the clay bar) in his hand. Bob needed two whole days to correct all the ills that had befallen the paint on my poor F355 ... and he didn't have two days open. So we had to reschedule. At this point, I assured April that if anyone could fix things, it was Bob. By then, she had cooled off to a slow simmer, and extended a stay of execution on me.

Well, Bob came through. The Rosso Barchetta paint on the F355 has never looked better since we've owned it. I don't have the vocabulary to express the thoroughness and completeness of his work, nor do I have the expression to describe the extreme happiness I had when April called me up to say, "Have you seen the car? It looks awesome!" Actually, to say Bob "came through" is underrepresenting how much effort it took for him to correct and remove the scratches, swirls, marks and spots on the paint. He toiled away for some very long hours and the results are nothing short of incredible.

I'm glad we have Bob in our community; he's a real car guy and a master in his profession. And at least in my case, he's also an A-1 (carnut-family) marriage counselor!

Thanks Bob!

 

I guess you are happy Nizam??,enjoy.

 

How's the Knee Bob?

 

Yes, Bob. Yes I am. Here are some pics ...
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It looks brand new ... and as you know, fluorescent lights are the harshest ...
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Just look at it, I mean ... look at it!
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That is amazing looking. It's hard to imagine how clay bar can ruin a paint. Maybe the guy just didn't wash the clay residue well? Either way, big props for Bob.

 

Kirb,

The knee is better, stayed off of it for a whole week and found out daytime tv will suck the life force out of you!! as everything is geared for the not gainfully employed.The doctor said I had a spained mcl, and to me it felt like I was kneebarred so now it is back to work to get caught up.

 

Wow, looks great Nizam.

Glad to hear Bob was able to restore peace and tranquility to your home.

 

I just want to say congrats to both Nizam and Bob! Bob, I think you get major good karma and happy knee points for helping Nizam's marriage
And Nizam gets to keep his gorgeous Rosso Barchetta Ferrari! And April too! A double win!

Ajay

 

Beautiful car Nizam.

 

It looks alright..........if you happen to be into shiny, superclean examples of Ferraris.

;-)

 

Are you bringing your superclean Esprit to SR again this Saturday?

 

Yeah, after years of lurking and looking over Nizam's shoulder, I finally created an account here on F-chat. All I can say is Bob made me do it! Our F355 looks incredible. It's never looked better and it's all thanks to Bob's hard work.

We had booked a new guy to wash our cars, and Nizam for some reason told him to clay the Ferrari on the first visit. This after I had just spent 3 days with the finest composition clay, using lots of lubricant, removing house paint overspray acquired from somewhere (not our house!). I guess it was brain fade on Nizam's part, and cluelessness on the part of the "detailer". In any case, after that treatment, the car looked like it had been hit with a brillo pad. I was beyond words - for a while anyway.

Since I was not in the mood to go out an buy the tools to fix the job (I used to detail many moons ago), the only solution was Bob. Was that ever the right choice! The car looks simply incredible. It almost hurts to contemplate driving it now!

Words cannot adequately describe my satisfaction - a grateful *smooch* to Bob! He deserves all the good words and none of the bad ones anybody says about him!

 

Us next.. us next dangit He always makes our cars look so darned clean... Green and white are calling your name LOL!

 

Alex,

When the bumpers are de-stickered and THEN re-painted, I will square the car away.