I actually think "ALL OF THE ABOVE!!" :willy: It's an endless battle...:rofl:

Im actually the opposite of OCD now, not much fun.
My first three vettes I had I was insane. Water spots, tires, dust, you name it. Wife drove on base one day and came back at lunch with some water spots on the nose,,,,,,almost cost me a marriage. Now I just try to keep the dust down (out here in the countryside thats almost impossible, which is why I bought MS this time)

I am definitely not OCD about my 08 vert. It is my daily driver and I treat it as such. It is a car. It is lots of fun to drive, but its primary purpose is transportation. I must drive a vehicle to get to work. I drive a Corvette because I can.

I fail to see how this contributes anything whatsoever to this particular topic of conversation. If you were close I'd pat you on the head and tell you you're such a good boy. Maybe even give you a treat.

Orange06 contributes quite a bit imho. He simply doesn't stress the small stuff. I'm the same way. I own the car, the car does not own me. It gets washed when it needs it. I live on an all weather gravel road in TX and my driveway is gravel too, all 800 plus feet of it. I haul feed bags in it. Square bales, you name it. I've strapped lumber to the top. Tips have never been polished btw. I could care less. I'd sooner spend time with my grand daughter and better half.
:cheers:

my wheel barrels... they HAVE to be clean and have no brake dust.. can't wait top put on my Hawks next week....

/joe

:rofl:

Holy crap Mike, you Have people's heads spinning, especially with the lumber strapped on top .....:lol:

LMAO...me too..:rofl:

At least I put the painted top back on for that job. :D Wonder if I should try mattresses next ........ :rofl:

Thanks Mike.

ProfessorDeath was sure that in with his post in this thread. :( I guess he missed my earlier post stating about the same thing as Orange06. :yesnod: Otherwise I would have been his target. :lol:

There are many who treat their Corvettes as garage queens, and there is nothing wrong with that at all. However some of us just look as them as what they really are: cars. :thumbs:

I thought Freedom of Speech meant just that! :flag:

Oh, I made the practice run down LSD today. Getting ready for the Steelers game. Oh, I mean Da Bears. :cheers:

Having a clean car before we take it out. If it is not clean it does not go out on the road. So I get up at 0-dark-30 and clean it while it is still cool enough that I don't get heat stroke in the process.

My point is this is a thread about particular issues that get under our skin.

I believe you were looking for the thread titled "Daily drivers who don't really care."

:cool: I have a feeling I may be up that way before years end. Sadly, not a trip I want to make.

Getting dings in the paint from people opening their door onto my car!

Tom

So maybe he has an issue with CF people who complain sarcastically that the topic is not being properly followed.

My OCD moments are with the writing, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization that is common here and many other places. I normally attribute that to education, laziness, or fat fingers and don't complain. Some things are best left without comment.

Oh, so sorry to hear that my friend. :sadangel: Godspeed.

Besides religiously avoiding water spots after a good weekly wash, I'd have to say my nemesis is cleaning the windshield. I spend an inordinate amount of time on my windows and despise a bug who attempts to take up residency with their earthly remains.

You do know that the harder you work at keeping the windshield clean, the more bugs will do the kamikaze thing on it ? :willy::rofl:

Always carry a micro fiber towel and detail spray in the rear storage compartment. Have to check for bugs, etc. on the front end and get rid of them asap.

Foot scuffs on the door panels. The kids are bad about doing this, but the service techs at my local Chevy dealer service dept. are the worst. Also scrapes on the sills, from the boots of these same service techs. Drives me crazy!

Don't I know it. Hence my :crazy2: OCD adventure with my windshield.

:D :cheers:

I did ceramics too but I STILL wiped off the damn wheels after every drive!:willy:

Keeping the wheels clean...........:ack:

I know this sounds crazy. I pull the Vette in the garage and I immediately open the hood ,because I want to let the heat escape. Nuts or what? Then my wife asks, is there something wrong with the car ? I answer just letting the heat out. She just rolls eyes and leaves.

Yeah, very silly and completely unnecessary :p

I'm just OCD about my lines at the track :thumbs: Everything else is just details.

Don't like door slamming. Whether it's my vehicle or my house.

Oh, and I hate bugs on the front of my car.

omg dude im surprised you are not in prison right now. Feet on dash is suicide and I tell that to all the young ladies.

my ex gf did that in my hummer, when we stopped i got out and right as she got out i went over and wiped down the dash with a cloth i keep in the car, she saw me do it and i guess got the hint lol

Get a GF with pretty feet, and you won't have that problem :D

or just make sure she washes the feet :rock: :hide:

so after not washing the car in few week (i put about 2k miles), I got tired of the bug build up front. Went to a car wash, but i think it had these plastic brushes and not much soap, so i don't think that's good.... didn't wash well, so i took it through it a second time.
I don't like when people eat in my car, especially junk food, cause then it's all over the seats, and french fries get under the seats and i can't get them out. After french fries they also leave prints all over...

well, really, i don't think anyone would believe any of that... i don't have any ocd's, i treat it like a normal car, with care. I don't let people eat in it, and i really pick where i wash it.

Keeping my windshield and wheels clean. For me just the fact that I keep the car pretty clean all the time is unusual. I'll just say I'm a bit disorganized, my wife would probably use a different term.

Pretty much agree with almost everything said so far.............Damn we are a crazy bunch.:thumbs:

Their feet would be well protected.:rofl:

:iagree: however toe rings and ankle bracelets can only go so far, if your gf has fugly feet id make her put them under the floor mats....:D

gotta say wheel barrels too, don't like brake dust either...

Drives me nuts when someone pushes the door open with their feet as they exit. It's so easy just open door all the way swing your legs around and put your feet on the ground and get out of my car.

Windows, my problem is windows.

There, I said it! :willy:

I was never OCD about a vehicle until the vette. We used to let our horses run loose on our acreage, and I had horse teeth marks across the top of my 2000 Acura TL from year one of owning it. Couldn't have cared less.

OMG - now with the vette. I see myself in almost every post - from needing crystal clear windows, and fiddling with the manual ensuring it's in neutral at lights, to fingerprints on paint, cup holder closed without a cup, dog hair, water spots, gas tank less than 1/2 full (which needs to be filled every other day), and the list goes on.

OCD? Whose OCD?!

All of the above !!!! Plus more !!!!

:iagree: especially the door slamming

No problem if your check air bag light is on which is a common problem with the C6. :ack:

Most of my Corvette OCD items have been mentioned.

I have a black coupe, so the fingerprint thing is big for me, but my wife insists in grabbing the top when exiting the car leaving big ole prints there every time. I try to be the one putting things into the hatch area because she just can't break the habit of dragging bags or packages across the paint into the hatch area. My dear departed mother did the same thing with her cars by setting things on top of the car while she unlocked and opened doors, then dragging the bags across the painted roof leaving scratches on scratches over time.

I hate to see my chrome wheels dirty, and often wash them off several times during a rainy week. Rejex has been a big help in keeping them clean and easy to clean. Not as OCD about the exhaust tips.

I hate it when people lean on my cars, but it happens. Neighbor's cat loves to jump up on the front and leave dirty, sandy little paw prints up to the roof where she roosts. He has a Vette and has her bed on top of his car, so the cat thinks this is normal. I tend to not leave my cars outside or with open garage door because of this.

I don't really consider these things excessive, but I don't jump on someone's case when it happens either.

:iagree:

This one for sure as well as clean windows. I hate seeing streaks or finger prints. It goes for the mirrors too.

Finger prints anywhere on my paint.

Wait I thought I was the only one...

My car looks great. But its because my dogs like to sit around the front yard for a few minutes in the afternoon and I get the mail and pick a part of the car to hit with the spray detailer while I'm killing time.

If the car made me OCD crazy I wouldn't own it. Too much stress.

I don't know why but I hate it when I see people in a vert with top down and windows up it drives me crazy. when the top is down the windows go with it.

If it leaves the garage, it gets washed. Period. No minimum mileage. It rolled, so it's dirty. :willy:

[QUOTE=Brockman66;1584784260]What are you guys most OCD over when it comes to your Corvettes? :ack:

I'd have to say my biggest pet peeve is dirty exhaust tips so I am constantly polishing and wiping down my tips. Either that or finger prints... My wife almost stabbed me one night when I instinctively swatted her hand when she leaned on the rear quarter panel.

After she is washed the water that rolls out of the side mirrors and doors when closed... No matter how much drying always some there!

I definitely hate finger prints and I'm sure I'll be exhibiting some new habits after reading this thread :willy:

Need to learn some tact! A nice sweet pat on the butt would have reprimanded and flirted at the same time, making happy wife who got the point!

Don't know that I'm OCD about it, but yeah - this looks kind of dorky. I've done it once or twice when the wife complained of freezing (don't know what the problem was, it was at least 45°!), but hoped nobody recognized me.

Yes slamming doors and flinging doors open. !!!!!

I absolutely cannot have the volume for the radio on an odd number unless it is a multiple of 5.

I have to have the radar detector exactly in the middle, not canted even a degree side to side, exactly 1" above the dash, parallel with the road (not the dash) with the cord to the right of the radio. Drives me nuts when mrowc6 just slaps it up there. :ack: pointing to the side or falling off the suction cups, or halfway up the window. :willy:


lisa

parking and bugs on the nose :lurk:

i hate Bird poop!! they are great bombers and they get triple bonus points for clean Vettes!!!!!!

After I get gas I click the gas cap exactly 6 times

finger prints on the glass, brake dust on black wheels, bugs on front end

oh yeah, kids near my car

Pouring water on a clean car. If it is only dusty (it's never been in weather in 7 years) "washing" it is something that I will not do. Two bucket wipe down method. My car has only been "washed" 4 times since January 2007. Yep, pouring water on a dusty car.:toetap:

And I thought I had problems...LOL. Now I see so many more things to be OCD about...damn!!!!

Have OCD so bad, it should be CDO !

this pisses me off I hate it when people put their disgusting feet on any dash! when I wash my car, wax and detail it takes forever and I hate when people try and rush me because they don't understand perfection :D

:iagree: Absolutely! I betcha this is the real #1 issue that we ALL are OCD about! :D

What he said.

After reading this thread. I just diagnosed myself.:crazy:

I have to check the cold tire pressures and make sure they're at 30 PSI before I leave the driveway, then check the pressures via the DIC every half hour or so.