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Thread: Car detailing
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06-03-2023, 09:44 PM #41
Yep that's exactly what I wanted to do but have to fight the boss to do it that way. . Also wanna do the headlamp wash jets the same as they stick out horrid
We do have the chrome handles , wing mirrors and side steps wife's idea . They were black and I wanted colour coded !!! Bloody women . . . Need a new toy for my self I think lol
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06-03-2023, 09:52 PM #42
have you thought about wrapping the chome and plastic bits?
could do the lot in a decent carbon fibre print
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06-03-2023, 09:54 PM #43
I had colour coded head lamp washers on my Astra GTE 16 V and knocked one off. I bought a new one which was grey so looked like it had been primered so obviously didn't match the other one but that soon got sorted when I knocked them both off a little while later and then had a matching pair of grey ones fitted. I never bothered repainting them as I quite liked the grey ones
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06-03-2023, 09:56 PM #44Freddyboy the legend
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06-03-2023, 09:56 PM #45________________________________________________
All we ever wanted was everything,
All we ever got was cold,
Get up, eat jelly, sandwich bars and barbed wire,
Squash every week into a day.
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06-03-2023, 10:00 PM #46Freddyboy the legend
"we are water keepers first"
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12-05-2024, 08:55 PM #47
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05-09-2024, 06:10 AM #48
I've just recently came across and didn't even know it was a thing to be honest. Detailing is like a valet but believe it or not, in more detail, tar removal, paint protection etc etc. Add you can imagine this takes alot longer than a quick soaping at your local hand wash, which comes at a price. People are paying it though, does anyone have any experience of this? I imagine it would be more the prestige makes of car that the owners are willing to pay for the service. Sounds like a good little number, but sure what to do through the winter though??
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09-09-2024, 06:09 PM #49
It can be hard work and lots of hours.
I guess it depends on what level of the market you want to enter.
Service/maintenance washes are probably where the money is, but to get that business you probably have to get the car in such a condition where maintenance washes are enough to maintain it.
Generally takes me 2 days to do a reasonably thorough clean with minor paint correction.
Full paint correction and full detailing to the best of my ability takes about a week.
A maintenance wash without doing interior takes me about 50 minutes including getting everything I need ready and putting everything away after, but it would kill me to do that 7 or 8 times a day!
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10-09-2024, 09:15 AM #50
I used to spend hours cleaning my car when it was new,
a quick wash 2-3 times a week with a full detail wash once a week.
snow foam, 2 bucket wash, decontamination, fallout remover, wheel removal and clean.
followed by a top up of the water repellant coating over the nano ceramic coating.
the nano ceramic coating would take me a full week to do 3 stage machine polish then IPA wipe down and coating under a waterproof gazebo.
don't have the time these day though
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11-09-2024, 01:13 PM #51
Will show off my efforts now.
This one now 20 years old and still looking fresh:
My newest addition to the family after its first deep clean, coming up for 5 years old (see the wet patch by the front wheel - cracked radiator which I didn't discover until the next journey!):
Last edited by RS2OOO; 11-09-2024 at 01:32 PM.
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11-09-2024, 01:27 PM #52
This is the daily runaround after 2 days of detailing, 11 years old and 90k miles:
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11-09-2024, 01:27 PM #53
Oh, and under bonnet:
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