Auto Detailing For Beauty And Protection
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: boats, business, car detailing, careers, cars, cleaning, family, hobbies, kids, other, travel, trucks, Uncategorized, valetingThere are different levels of auto detailing. The cheapest level may be merely washing the outside, like a car wash; the next degree may incorporate doing the interior and the boot as well and the top level may include the inside, outside and the engine.
Then there are degrees of cleanliness within these categories as well. for instance, the lowest level might be to merely vacuum the carpets, but the highest degree may include taking them out and actually washing them.
Needless to say the amount of auto detailing you get will (or should) be reflected in the price. The lowest level might cost $75 and the highest degree $300 for an averagely dirty average car.
Larger and dirtier cars cost more. However, the car will be restored to its condition if that is at all feasible, so a good detailing before selling your car may reap rewards.
It is not very hard to learn how to wash the outside of a car well, but it is more difficult to do the inside because you will need special tools and small vacuum cleaner heads to get into all the nooks and crannies.
You may also want to wash the carpets without removing them which can be a royal pain, if you do not have that special apparatus.
You can certainly buy the waxes, polishes, vinyl and leather cleaners and you can even purchase the apparatus, it is just that you might find it expensive to buy and time-consuming to use.
Cleaning the engine is more or less just a matter of blasting the grease off the engine with a fairly weak pressure gun using degreaser in the (warm) water, so this requires more specialist equipment.
The brushes and sponges are all fairly normal as are the liquids and detergents, polishes and waxes.
Some auto detailing firms will also take care of minor repairs like a stitch that has come loose in the upholstery or a minor scratch on the coachwork.
However, I think that all businesses should at least bring these defects to the owner’s notice even if repair is not in the price. Repairing a minor scratch on a wing can save that wing from having to be replaced in the future. Likewise with tyres, if an operative spots difficulties and reports it, it could save a blowout.
Waxing is an central issue. I think that there should be a wax included in the shampoo, because it will run into all the crevices and form a seal against rainwater. I am all for applying a second coat of wax by hand to the larger areas as well both for protection and appearance.
Do not bother applying a cheap wax by hand, because it will come off after a couple of rain showers. If you are going to do the job, do it properly using a high quality wax that will protect your paintwork from the sun’s bleaching rays, from the abrasion of wind-blown dust and from the oxidizing rain.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many topics, but is at present concerned with auto interior detailing. If you want some tips on detailing cars come over to our website now at Detailing Car Interiors.
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