Poll: What type of detailing do you do? Production Detailing or Show Car Detailing?

Poll: What type of detailing do you do? Production Detailing or Show Car Detailing?

  • Production Detailing - Daily Drivers

    Votes: 19 25.7%

  • Show Car Detailing - Cool Cars

    Votes: 11 14.9%

  • Both

    Votes: 44 59.5%
  • Total voters
    74
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Poll: What type of detailing do you do? Production Detailing or Show Car Detailing?


Production Detailing = Using a one-step cleaner/wax for daily drivers and grocery getters. Note some people call a cleaner/wax an AIO whatever term you like but they are the same things, just different words.


Show Car Detailing = Using a dedicated compound and polish to perfect the paint and then using either a finishing wax, a finishing sealant or a ceramic or quartz paint coating. In other words, you're doing multiple steps on usually a cool car, not a grocery getter.


Bot types are honorable and good. Just very different for the market place.


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Both with it leaning way more to the DD side.

What about the DYIers?
 
Cruzscarwash said:
I do about 90% production and the remaining is car show. I'd like to do more car show details.

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This! Seeing huge 3 row vehicles(Ford Expedition, GMC Yukon, etc) show up makes me question my decision to do production detailing, particularly when having to tackle the huge interior of these vehicles. Still waiting to work on my first SIV - special interest vehicle. Hope that day arrives soon...sigh.

David
 
Well it definitely makes money, I mean I'm not in the ball park of some pros here who clear $1000 a day but I can net between 600-900 a day on production buffs. I'm gonna start a car show package here soon, just figuring out how to put it together

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I am a therapist by profession so the 'sickness' of auto detailing is for fun... having said that... I'd say I do a show car detail on a grocery-go-getter... I can take more time since I do it for fun...
 
I do this on the side, so don't really have time to do production detailing, though I'll take the job every now and then. Even an occasional wash and wax. So, although I do both, most of the work I've put out would be closer to show car work. 16+ hours (I take my time and/or I'm slow)


david b said:
This! Seeing huge 3 row vehicles(Ford Expedition, GMC Yukon, etc) show up makes me question my decision to do production detailing, particularly when having to tackle the huge interior of these vehicles. Still waiting to work on my first SIV - special interest vehicle. Hope that day arrives soon...sigh.

David
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Keep in mind, the pool of daily drivers and soccer mom cars is far, far greater than the pool of SIVs. So if you're doing this for money... :)
(also remember you can always turn away certain jobs)


Cruzscarwash said:
Well it definitely makes money, I mean I'm not in the ball park of some pros here who clear $1000 a day but I can net between 600-900 a day on production buffs. I'm gonna start a car show package here soon, just figuring out how to put it together
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Cruzman....you know that 900 is just shy of 1,000 right? hehe.

I'm still way cheap on my work. And I'm still okay with that :)
 
JustJesus said:
I do this on the side, so don't really have time to do production detailing, though I'll take the job every now and then. Even an occasional wash and wax. So, although I do both, most of the work I've put out would be closer to show car work. 16+ hours (I take my time and/or I'm slow)





Keep in mind, the pool of daily drivers and soccer mom cars is far, far greater than the pool of SIVs. So if you're doing this for money... :)
(also remember you can always turn away certain jobs)




Cruzman....you know that 900 is just shy of 1,000 right? hehe.

I'm still way cheap on my work. And I'm still okay with that :)
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Hey, if you lose by and inch or a mile right

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Can't trust what that guy said...he's a traitor. (haven't seen the latest one, though)
 
I am able to do both but the majority of what I've done have been production so I voted production.
 
My business is new and I have been called for a lot of production detailing, but hope to get more show car detailing jobs now that the car shows are coming back to the Raleigh area.

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Like many - I voted both but again, more production detailing than SIVs.

New Zealand is only small in terms of population (just over four million) but our love for cars is strong. Where I live, my town has about thirty five thousand people, & although high calibre exotics are few & far between, the classic car & hot rod scene is very healthy. That being said - I couldn't keep the shop open just working on SIVs.

I kinda twist a bit on the production side of the coin too - I have built quite the reputation for polishing paint, & I often save our local car dealerships thousands on vehicles that previously would've gone straight to the bodyshops. I also get some work from bodyshops for "finishing" work too.

Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2:
 
david b said:
Still waiting to work on my first SIV - special interest vehicle. Hope that day arrives soon...sigh.

David
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Hang in there... the SIV side of your business will show up. Some guys will test you out on their daily driver and once you prove yourself on the parts-chaser they'll hand you the keys of their real ride.

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Aaryn NZ said:
I kinda twist a bit on the production side of the coin too - I have built quite the reputation for polishing paint, & I often save our local car dealerships thousands on vehicles that previously would've gone straight to the bodyshops.

I also get some work from bodyshops for "finishing" work too.

Aaryn NZ. :dblthumb2:
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I've seen your work. You know what you're doing. Your reputation is well-earned.


:)
 
Mike Phillips said:
Poll: What type of detailing do you do? Production Detailing or Show Car Detailing?


Production Detailing = Using a one-step cleaner/wax for daily drivers and grocery getters. Note some people call a cleaner/wax an AIO whatever term you like but they are the same things, just different words.


Show Car Detailing = Using a dedicated compound and polish to perfect the paint and then using either a finishing wax, a finishing sealant or a ceramic or quartz paint coating. In other words, you're doing multiple steps on usually a cool car, not a grocery getter.


Bot types are honorable and good. Just very different for the market place.


:)
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I accommodate both money is money.You may do production and get a full paintcorrect from a referral.
 
Show car detailing all the way. I'm retired so nothing but classic cars baby!

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Both for me too. I started with daily drivers, and still do many of them. But my B-I-L has several muscle cars I maintain, and his friends have contacted me too.
But I do have a client that has fantastic cars...not Ferrari's and Lambo's, he is into pre-war cars. I started on a 1914 Renault, then did his 1918 White truck. He has spent the past 14 years designing, parts gathering, and building a 1912 Indy 'tribute' race car. I was lucky enough to detail it for it's initial outing, and have been traveling with him to shows for several years to speak about the car and to help haul home the trophies!
 
I voted both. I was in the same camp as Jeff, money is money, whatever people want to have done I was willing. Now that I have the little one running around and I'm finishing up on grad school on top of working a "real" full time job, my free time is super precious to me. So unless it's someone whose car I've previously worked on, I'm generally not taking on any more production work. On the plus side, I'm a lot more confident and unforgiving on how I price the higher end work. Realizing that my time is worth a certain amount, I'm turning away some work that I previously might have negotiated on. This is better for me and how I ultimately want to structure my side business.
 
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