Need Exterior Tips For New Bussiness

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seanconway34

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Hi, I recently started my own part time mobile auto detailing bussiness a couple months ago and to date have done about 40 cars, I am a college student attending community college and I have a lot of time to detail cars. I usually do 4-5 cars a week. My equitment consists of a porter cable 7424xp and a carpet extractor. I need some help with what prodcuts to use on the exterior of the cars that I detail, I want to be time effecient. I want to use an AIO product and top it off with Opti-Seal as it is quick to use. Is this a good system and what AIO product should I use for maximum shine. Also what price should I charge for a full interior detail with shampoo carpets and an exterior with AIO product, is $85 good for a car as I am a college student.
 
Price is all realative. Charge enough that you make enough to keep yourself in business and take home a nice "paycheck"
 
D151 is my favorite AIO, I feel like $85 is a little cheap if you do a good quality job.
 
I'm going to throw my vote in for Optimum GPS. This stuff amazes me. More aggressive pad for pretty decent correcting and less aggressive pad for finishing. The protection in it is pretty good already so for the price you're charging I'd use GPS and skip the Opti Seal.

If you're going to use Opti Seal, I'd skip the AIO and just use a real polish such as M205 or OPT Hyper Polish/Polish II.

Charge enough to make it worthwhile to you while being reasonable for your customers.

Just my opinion. Good luck!
 
I would skip the sealant and use d151 and be done with it. As for the pricing, I get $200 per car for basically what you are saying. If you are fully shampooing the carpets and cleaner the leather/vinyl/seats as well as following up with a conditioner you are spending a decent amount of time on a car. I would figure about 4 hours. At $85 you are getting $20 per hour not deducting your cost of equipment and product. At that price, you are probably close to losing g money if your extractor cost you $600!
 
Optimums GPS or poliseal works great when topped by opti seal :)
 
Perfections said:
Optimums GPS or poliseal works great when topped by opti seal :)
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I've never noticed much correction with poliseal. Great for cars on good shape, but not for turds. For $85, I have a feeling he will get a lot of turds.
 
D_Nyholm said:
I've never noticed much correction with poliseal. Great for cars on good shape, but not for turds. For $85, I have a feeling he will get a lot of turds.
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GPS has far better correction ability than poliseal. I was surprised actually.
 
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