How to make a $200 detail look quality with only 2-3 hours?

604_Snooze said:
Did you do all of the following steps in 1 hour and 45 minutes?

A wash, clay, quick once over with a hand glaze, then a synthetic wax for the exterior. Then a vacuum, quick shampoo, clean and condition leather, or if cloth seats use the tornado(sometimes extractor) and dry off with mf, then all surfaces are cleaned with APC+ and dressed appropriately for the material they are, then clean the glass, and lastly doorjambs. Then I do the wheels, I grab a bucket with APC+ and a car shampoo mixed and rigorously scrub the tire and wheels, then the wheel wells, then rinse, then dress the tires, then apply wheel glaze and wipe off.
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I think you already know the answer.
 
604_Snooze said:
Did you do all of the following steps in 1 hour and 45 minutes?

A wash, clay, quick once over with a hand glaze, then a synthetic wax for the exterior. Then a vacuum, quick shampoo, clean and condition leather, or if cloth seats use the tornado(sometimes extractor) and dry off with mf, then all surfaces are cleaned with APC+ and dressed appropriately for the material they are, then clean the glass, and lastly doorjambs. Then I do the wheels, I grab a bucket with APC+ and a car shampoo mixed and rigorously scrub the tire and wheels, then the wheel wells, then rinse, then dress the tires, then apply wheel glaze and wipe off.
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Maybe it was only the passenger side door and seat ;)
 
You could do a quick through wash in 30 minutes, dress tires and trim in another 15. Skip the clay and just polish with an AIO in an hour. Spend the rest of the time on the interior.
 
If it were that easy to make that much money in that amount of time, everyone would be doing it. Don't get me wrong I like your ambition but until you find out hands on how it is to start a biz, reality will set in.
 
Why does Wendy's have square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.
 
Save all this stress. Just do quality work. The people who don't want to pay for my services, I usually don't want to detail anyway. :)
 
Sounds like you want to do production work, but charge high end detailing prices.
 
Flannigan said:
Sounds like you want to do production work, but charge high end detailing prices.
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I don't know how it is where you are but for what I described is what most people around here expect when they get a detail. And I say the price has got to be good seeing how when I talk to a customer they usually have pre determined it to be around 150-200 bucks.
 
UltimateDetail said:
I don't know how it is where you are but for what I described is what most people around here expect when they get a detail. And I say the price has got to be good seeing how when I talk to a customer they usually have pre determined it to be around 150-200 bucks.
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Sorry, but you aren't doing a true one step correction in 2-3 hours.
 
Flannigan said:
Sorry, but you aren't doing a true one step correction in 2-3 hours.
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I really would just do it to bring out a little more gloss in the paint.. And do you mean with everything else involved? Or just a one step in 2-3 hours?? Like Cosmin said in the post mentioned above "People don't look at the swirls, they look at the shine."
 
UltimateDetail said:
I don't know how it is where you are but for what I described is what most people around here expect when they get a detail. And I say the price has got to be good seeing how when I talk to a customer they usually have pre determined it to be around 150-200 bucks.
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I am in NY too and I have to agree on that predetermined price of 150-200. It seems even if they have a classic or a nice DD that is all they are willing to spend on a detail. I explain paint correction and clay and all the other gourmet services and the responses is "I don't wanna spend more than 200 bucks".

I am part time and have a good paying job, so I don't push the issue and do my best for 200.
 
inyadreems said:
I am in NY too and I have to agree on that predetermined price of 150-200. It seems even if they have a classic or a nice DD that is all they are willing to spend on a detail. I explain paint correction and clay and all the other gourmet services and the responses is "I don't wanna spend more than 200 bucks".

I am part time and have a good paying job, so I don't push the issue and do my best for 200.
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Exactly what I mean, and I'm fine with that.. A lot of people around here are set in their ways on what they know. And when it comes to detailing, that's all I ever hear a majority of the time, that they are ok with 150-200.
 
Lets say that you can do this detail in 2-3 hours. You would need to obtain 3 unique customers each day. This works out to 15 customers each week. This is 780 customers per year. Even if all of your customers use your services twice a year, you need a solid 400 repeat customers to pull off this plan.

I would seriously consider reviewing your business plan in a realistic manner. Who is your competition? How are you going to obtain these customers?

I applaud your enthusiasm, but your business plan is severely lacking in details.
 
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