Your Most Ridiculous OCD Move
 

After bringing my perfectly clean Z home from taking delivery at the dealer, I hand washed and waxed her. Alright, that's on the edge but still defensible. But then I bought an order of those heavy paper floormats dealers sometimes put in your car when they take it in for service. Since getting them, my never-touched-by-a-driver's-shoe, beautiful big red Z Autosport floor mats haven't seen the light of day---and probably never will. Is that sick or what!

Doesn't the crinkling sound of the paper annoy you?

I don't like when my floor mats are dirty, but I don't think I'll ever take these precations. I'll just vacuum and make sure I don't have dirt or dog **** on my shoes when I get in the Z.

I would rather just have to replace the mats in a year to keep them new looking, instead of driving around with paper covering them up. If I were that concerned with them getting wear and tear.

:iagree:

That's kind of like having clear plastic seat covers...

oldguy- we ocd'ers do not take our cars to the dealer... so you need to step it up a couple of notches. :p

havent driven my z for straight 3 months. waiting for rain to wash the salt off first.

asians love to put the clear plastic/rubber floor mats on top of the oem floor mats. trust me... i'm asian.

That's pretty funny, man. I left the paper floor mats on the passenger side for about a week...until my girlfriend got pissed about it and I decided she was right...haha.

you must be the one that got rejected as an asian.

Real asians have stuffed animals on their dash, hanging from their a pillar, and sitting on the rear deck.

Trust me... I'm asian.

lol agree, i'm Chinese, i always see my friends buy new cars and then the first thing you see them buy for the car is rubber floor to cover up the original floor mat. hahaha..never understand why...

...there's always new mats at Pep Boys, Auto Zone, etc....

I still have the blue protective plastic film on the dead man's pedal.... the dealer left it on and I haven't brought myself to take it off yet.... :icon17:

I'm on month 5....though I did drive my Z twice this past month...

Roads were dry and clear...but still some areas still had salt/sand remnants, just where I chose to drive it did not! :)


We're supposed to get hammered Monday, which means...

1) the bike comes out of hiding and gets ridden to work and band practices
2) the Z will be coming out for it's first bath of the year! :)

I believe in using the things I buy, so I don't go to that extreme. Like, the people who buy a couch and immediately cover it in plastic so it protects the material and keeps the couch from becoming ugly. Of course, the plastic MAKING it ugly !

I do, however, have a small detail station in my garage with a wall-mounted vaccuum with about 15 feet of hose on it that I can just flip on and hit the carpet/mats with easily. :D

sorry to thread hijack but pics of the detail station?

no, you're just a girl. well, most asian girls ive seen do that.


real asians like charburgers and cheeze fries.

man, can't wait for rain...

Don't be a Grandma....The only reason she put those Plastic slip covers on her couch was because you were a slob as a kid! Not meant for adults.....;)

Buy a heel plate if you don't like heel marks on your carpet..

:iagree: I never put the clear plastic/rubber floor mats on top of the oem floor mats. trust me... i'm asian.

i still have the clear plastic over my illuminated passenger side kick plate

my momma would say "tru dat!"

lol. my parents and my girlfriend's parents do it. they always get scrunched up under the pedals too. :shakes head:

I dont know if the covers and all are OCD or just neat freakish. An OCD I have with the stereo is; it has to be on 20 or 25 or 30 for the volume not in between. I dont really go under 20 else I just turn it off to listen to the exhaust.

idk if this is OCD but when i wash my car i feel like it drives better and has more power haha idk why

my co-worker said one time he saw a guy putting shoes covers (the type used in clean room environment) on before he stepped into his lamborghini :)

Anyone for a group buy on Hazmat suits?

Now we're talkin'!

We interrupt this thread for a quick (out-of-date photo). Not sure why my 2200 PSI Karcher pressure washer is away from its slot. Also, to the right would be my rolling "sit-on-my-butt-while-I-wash-the-lower-sides-of-the-car" apparatus (but I hadn't built it yet :D). Finally, I have Altec-Lansing speakers with iPod dock that replaced the "boombox" you see a little bit on the left.

Wash and rinse buckets, about 40 microfiber towels, rubber gloves for winter, a big California Duster hanging, vaccuum attachment (duh!), and that red thing is another hand-carried vaccuum the store (Lowes) just gave me.

Well I do the same, it has been a practice of mine in all my cars. I use the thin ones, it will protect your OEM mats big time.

BTW, I'm PR. ;)

Love the hearts on the shelving for your detail stuff.. :D

But seriously that's awesome.. I do not have this OCD gene.. and while a pain I know for some.. it would be awesome to be forced to keep stuff that organized sometimes. ;)

I have a JASON mask on the passenger head rest and a figurine chillin in the hatch..what does that make me? DUMB? WEIRD? Or Greek ?!! LOL It's all GREEK to me ;) See.....[IMG]http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSC02788.jpg[/IMG]
Don't worry..the banner didn't stay on long at all!!!

Liking the Jason mask ! :bowrofl:

Hehe, didn't expect anyone to look that closely. Bookshelves out of pine taken from our daughter's room when we got her "grown up" furniture. Painted it white to go with the garage colors and it makes a good place to stack stuff. Hey ! If I didn't save money SOMEWHERE, I couldn't have afforded this car !

Thanks..he keeps my car safe when I'm not in it haha. People at work always ask me who was in my car while I was at working. Dumb azzes! LOL

hmmm protect the stuff that protects stuff. so now we have to protect the stuff that protects the protected stuff. I love it. It could be an endless cycle. Youd end up with a foot high of foot protection.

worst OCD moment recently? ... i accidentally hacked out about a 1.5 inch of intercooler fins with a screw driver trying to straighten them up from being bent....

OCD-non-car: I am a complete germophobe. Have a thing of hand sanitizer at my home desk and everything. I probably wash my hands a billion times a day.

Car-OCD: A bird crapped on my windshield today. I decided this merited a full wash. Just in case. My hands are still numb.

You know you are killing the good stuff on your hands too.

And just some FYI for all: you kill 99% of all germs with it but that 1% is immune to it and it reproduces more immune germs and soon the sanitizer cant kill any of the germs. Best thing to do is wash hands and that doesnt kill the germs but washes them off in the soap and super germs wont reproduce. Thats why people get sick in hospitals super germs from too much cleaning with germ killing stuff.

Oh, stop! haha..it wasn't that cold today...48 degrees was great compared to 38 :) Looking at the 50's this weekend! Spring cleaning!!!!!

Nice facility, my friend!

Notwithstanding all this OCD nonsense that's been said and laughed about, there is a reward to it. My 15 year old special edition Miata still looks showroom new. I've driven her for 35,000 miles and enjoyed every one of those miles. But due to my aggressive care and maintenance style, I now have a collector's class little prize and, in retrospect, I'm comfortable with my approach. Bottom line: to each his own.