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The History of Meguiar's Online Discussion Forum
We were doing some research for a project and in the process went looking for the first thread started on Meguiar's Online and thought we would share this with the current forum community.
This first thread was one of our "Pictures & Comments Threads" from the first Saturday Class held after the forum went live which was January 24th, 2004
This thread was posted on... Jan 24th, 2004, 09:34am according to the time stamp on the thread.
Mini Coopers at Meguiar's NXT Generation Garage!
We had 15 people join our forum the first day the doors were opened! Member List by Join Date
We would like to say thank you to all our forum members for making Meguiar's Online the success that it is and will continue to be.
The History of our Saturday Detailing Classes
Meguiar's has always placed a strong emphasis on education ever since entering into this business in 1901. Meguiar's moved to their current headquarters here in Irvine, California in 1989 and since that time has always offered educational hands-on training here at our facilities. With the advent of the Internet and the introduction of software to create what we call discussion forums, we began coordinating our classes held on Saturday through our discussion forum as it was a way to easily reach car clubs represented by their online communities.
Our first class coordinated through the www.MercedesShop.com discussion forum was held on a Saturday, August 31st, 2002 We're happy to say that many of the friends we made through this class are still friends and active members of our forum today.
The time stamp on the below thread is 07-11-2002, 10:46pm and the class was held on Saturday, August 31st 2002
SoCal Mercedesshop, Meguiar's Detailing Day In August
The sign-up thread is 8 pages long with the pictures and comments after the class being posted to the same thread starting on page 6 It has 115 Replies and right at 6000 views since it's creation and the posting of this thread.
Here's the only two pictures we have from that event although were trying to locate a few more...
The History of our Weeknight "Open Garage" classes
In the spring of 2006 we decided to start a new type of class during the middle of the week that would basically be an informal event where our forum members would be welcome to bring their cars to Meguiar's Garage and with the help and oversight of Meguiar's Staff, check out our extensive line of products and test them out on their cars. This has turned out to be highly successful and very popular with our local forum members.
We have two locations where photos and comments are posted, one is on the Archive forum and one is on our new forum.
Pictures and Comment from our Open Garage classes on the Archive Forum
Pictures and Comments from our Open Garage classes on our New Forum
As you can see by this picture we work into the night with our classes usually ending around 9:30 to 10:00pm
History of our Extreme Makeovers at Meguiar's Garage
Once in a while a really cool special interest car comes our way that's just begging to have the paint polished to it's maximum potential, for these cars we arrange to hold a dedicated night class at Meguiar's Garage and invite our forum members to be a part of the "Transformation Team" to Meguiarize the car. This gives our forum members an opportunity to work on some pretty cool cars and everyone has a lot of fun. Below are a few examples...
Blast from the Past! - The dead brought back to life!
Before - Yes the paint is actually turning from red to white in some places
After
One of our most recent Extreme Makeover projects was to take the finish on the 1956 Cadillac Eldorado to an even higher level of quality. This is a display vehicle at the Marconi Museum and admittedly it had a pretty nice finish, that's where it actually gets difficult. It's easy to take something in really bad shape and make a dramatic before and after project out of it, it's a lot more difficult to take something in pretty nice shape and take it to an even higher level as the differences between before and after while not as dramatic usually take surgeon precision with each process. It requires a product line with a lot of options for products and how they can be applied and definitely requires a lot more skill and talent to execute without making a mistake.
The finished results...
The Transformation Team for this project
Time flies when you're having fun!
We were doing some research for a project and in the process went looking for the first thread started on Meguiar's Online and thought we would share this with the current forum community.
This first thread was one of our "Pictures & Comments Threads" from the first Saturday Class held after the forum went live which was January 24th, 2004
This thread was posted on... Jan 24th, 2004, 09:34am according to the time stamp on the thread.
Mini Coopers at Meguiar's NXT Generation Garage!
We had 15 people join our forum the first day the doors were opened! Member List by Join Date
We would like to say thank you to all our forum members for making Meguiar's Online the success that it is and will continue to be.
The History of our Saturday Detailing Classes
Meguiar's has always placed a strong emphasis on education ever since entering into this business in 1901. Meguiar's moved to their current headquarters here in Irvine, California in 1989 and since that time has always offered educational hands-on training here at our facilities. With the advent of the Internet and the introduction of software to create what we call discussion forums, we began coordinating our classes held on Saturday through our discussion forum as it was a way to easily reach car clubs represented by their online communities.
Our first class coordinated through the www.MercedesShop.com discussion forum was held on a Saturday, August 31st, 2002 We're happy to say that many of the friends we made through this class are still friends and active members of our forum today.
The time stamp on the below thread is 07-11-2002, 10:46pm and the class was held on Saturday, August 31st 2002
SoCal Mercedesshop, Meguiar's Detailing Day In August
The sign-up thread is 8 pages long with the pictures and comments after the class being posted to the same thread starting on page 6 It has 115 Replies and right at 6000 views since it's creation and the posting of this thread.
Here's the only two pictures we have from that event although were trying to locate a few more...
The History of our Weeknight "Open Garage" classes
In the spring of 2006 we decided to start a new type of class during the middle of the week that would basically be an informal event where our forum members would be welcome to bring their cars to Meguiar's Garage and with the help and oversight of Meguiar's Staff, check out our extensive line of products and test them out on their cars. This has turned out to be highly successful and very popular with our local forum members.
We have two locations where photos and comments are posted, one is on the Archive forum and one is on our new forum.
Pictures and Comment from our Open Garage classes on the Archive Forum
Pictures and Comments from our Open Garage classes on our New Forum
As you can see by this picture we work into the night with our classes usually ending around 9:30 to 10:00pm
History of our Extreme Makeovers at Meguiar's Garage
Once in a while a really cool special interest car comes our way that's just begging to have the paint polished to it's maximum potential, for these cars we arrange to hold a dedicated night class at Meguiar's Garage and invite our forum members to be a part of the "Transformation Team" to Meguiarize the car. This gives our forum members an opportunity to work on some pretty cool cars and everyone has a lot of fun. Below are a few examples...
Blast from the Past! - The dead brought back to life!
Before - Yes the paint is actually turning from red to white in some places
After
One of our most recent Extreme Makeover projects was to take the finish on the 1956 Cadillac Eldorado to an even higher level of quality. This is a display vehicle at the Marconi Museum and admittedly it had a pretty nice finish, that's where it actually gets difficult. It's easy to take something in really bad shape and make a dramatic before and after project out of it, it's a lot more difficult to take something in pretty nice shape and take it to an even higher level as the differences between before and after while not as dramatic usually take surgeon precision with each process. It requires a product line with a lot of options for products and how they can be applied and definitely requires a lot more skill and talent to execute without making a mistake.
The finished results...
The Transformation Team for this project
Time flies when you're having fun!
It's wonderful and amazing how much you can learn from this site. NEVER would I have thought that I would be able to produce the kind of results that I can now produce on vehicles...this has to be one of the most informative, friendly, and supportive forums on the web..I've said it before and I'll say it again, Meguiars simply knows the most important thing to success; happy customers !!!.
....and to all the members, you rock...
on, people! 
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