Welcome to the Detailing forum!!!!

Brandon1 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-05-2007, 04:27 PM

We finally have our Detailing forum back. I am so excited. I will try my best to answer your questions about detailing in general and others will chime in as well. There are alot of good "detailers" on this site that will be glad to help out with your questions.

Brandon

rcwebb · #2 (**permalink**) 03-06-2007, 07:40 AM

Brandon1:
1) What do you charge for detailing?
2) I will soon move to the Charlotte area. How far are you from there?

I have enjoyed reading and learned from your posts. You post quality information and help others, which is what this forum is about.
Thanks for your positive contributions.
RCWebb

Brandon1 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-06-2007, 01:42 PM

My full service is upwars of $180-200, and that includes everything. I am about 3hrs from charlotte.

Brandon1 · #4 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 04:48 PM

Wow, not alot of people doing detailing this time of year huh?

MOREPOWER · #5 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 05:19 PM

The weather is turning hot in Tampa so its detail time, I got some more aqua wax just did a Civic in white its my daughters, did the same as my Tundra used the Duragloss gives great beading and really lasts.
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Brandon1 · #6 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 07:48 PM

That beading is tight!!! I like it, I just put on like 4coats of AW for my trucks trip to the body shop so the paint wont get spotted.

MOREPOWER · #7 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Brandon1

That beading is tight!!! I like it, I just put on like 4coats of AW for my trucks trip to the body shop so the paint wont get spotted.

Good idea I just got this car back from the the body shop, it was there since before Christmas it was there three months, I had to clay it with some clay magic blue clay (ten bucks at auto zone and wont get gooey like megs clay when wet) there was rust powder a yellow haze that looked like sulfur, anyway it came right off guess thats the reason they invented that stuff, without it sure would have been hard getting that stuff off.

Brandon1 · #8 (**permalink**) 03-19-2007, 12:11 PM

Wow, must not be detail season yet for many folks!

CountRingworm · #9 (**permalink**) 03-19-2007, 01:48 PM

i just did mine a week ago today- first 55 degree+ day we've had here in central iowa.

used your posted procedure, had to do the scratch x by hand. i couldn't believe the difference the claying made. the scratch x didn't seem to do a whole lot, i realize i'll have to get a machine to do it up right.

of course, my black truck shows the tiniest amounts of dust, so it's due for a wash again.

but my she looks great. we had some very spotty rain (sprinkles, really) and it basically beaded and disappeared off the windshield.

thanks again for that writeup, i think i got my parents turned on to it as well for their vehicles.

Brandon1 · #10 (**permalink**) 03-19-2007, 02:09 PM

Great job, post some pics of it. As far as scratch-X, it will help with overall gloss and cleaning vs. just waxing the truck, but it wont help much with swirls. You will need a machine.

Power Polish by mothers is also great by hand.

Brandon1 · #11 (**permalink**) 03-22-2007, 03:30 PM

yeah, definatly not getting as much traffic as expected. People are still PMing me instead of posting it here for all to answer and see. I am going to start making each PM a thread.