How about this job for 300$

Very amazing save. Even more amazing is you only had to use HD Speed
 
FinishingTouchA said:
Nice work, man that sure was bad...
Now to figure out how to get customers to pay $350 for an AIO, I have a hard time getting $200.
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It's pretty much area. We are in South OC, CA. We started out much lower but as time went on we increased the prices because we were taking a lot of time and people are willing to pay it because they trust us. The Infiniti owner actually gave us 450$. Many times if we quote too low and the client sees the amount of time we spend they will tip 50 to 150$ anyways. We have been doing it about a year and a few months.

We actually don't really even do just car washes anymore except for the clients we have been doing for awhile. Any new client that calls for car wash we quote 50$. And that is still a fair price I think for the time we spend on a wash. When we first started we charged 25$ for a car wash and it took 2 of us 2 hours before we were happy with the WASH JOB. LOL we still laugh about those days. I didn't think people would pay 40-50 for a car wash. But they do for the piece of mind that we are going to care for their cars like we do our own.
 
We see lots of posts like this on this forum, great save btw! I think many times it may not be so much as the guilty detailer does not care, it might be more of a case they simply do not know what they are doing and or think what they do looks good. In this case they probably did not care and had no idea what they were doing.

Long before I found autogeek and this forum, I accepted swirls as part of a cars finish. I had no idea I could remove them. Now seeing them on a nice car or show car just makes me sick.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I still remember when the Meg's Microfiber DA system came out, it was targeted right at detailers like this, to get them off of rotaries and onto DA's. Unfortunately there's plenty of "wheelers" out there who have 15 minutes of training and 15 years of repeating that 15 minutes (to paraphrase Todd Helme), and they're happy to teach more disciples.
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A little earlier I just mentioned in another thread that I wanted to get a rotary but I'm a little intimidated with them. I have a few nice DAs but I don't want to fool around with a rotary until I have a lot more hours of experience. This is a perfect example why. I know that it's great for production details and saves a lot of time. I'd rather spend a few more hours than do this to mine or someone else's car.
 
Wow that looked horrible. In the first picture, I thought the car was covered in soap. Looks good now! I can't wait to try the HD speed.
 
runrun411 said:
A little earlier I just mentioned in another thread that I wanted to get a rotary but I'm a little intimidated with them. I have a few nice DAs but I don't want to fool around with a rotary until I have a lot more hours of experience. This is a perfect example why. I know that it's great for production details and saves a lot of time. I'd rather spend a few more hours than do this to mine or someone else's car.
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Well, there's a few things you have in your favor, if you buy one of the newer (expensive) rotaries they go to quite low RPM's. You also have a wealth of help here, and can start with small, soft pads. Plus you already know a lot about process.

Compare this to a guy using an 8" wool pad on a rotary that won't go below 1000 RPM, who got showed by the guy before him how to put it down on the concrete floor and go over the whole car in 5-10 minutes. Pad cleaning? What's that? Spur it once a week and you're good.

Coming from a DA mindset, an 8" pad sounds safe, you can't get much power to the paint with that...but with a rotary you're whistling up quite a surface speed at the outside of that 8" pad.
 
I am impressed they could cover swirls WITH holograms! How do you not fix the swirls AND leave holograms! Nice work man!
 
OCD Detailing said:
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I shouldn't be shocked, but man, people really pass off cars that look like this?!

Is this kind of work more common than I think?
 
OCD Detailing said:
It's pretty much area. We are in South OC, CA. We started out much lower but as time went on we increased the prices because we were taking a lot of time and people are willing to pay it because they trust us. The Infiniti owner actually gave us 450$. Many times if we quote too low and the client sees the amount of time we spend they will tip 50 to 150$ anyways. We have been doing it about a year and a few months.

We actually don't really even do just car washes anymore except for the clients we have been doing for awhile. Any new client that calls for car wash we quote 50$. And that is still a fair price I think for the time we spend on a wash. When we first started we charged 25$ for a car wash and it took 2 of us 2 hours before we were happy with the WASH JOB. LOL we still laugh about those days. I didn't think people would pay 40-50 for a car wash. But they do for the piece of mind that we are going to care for their cars like we do our own.
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Love it! Haha I feel the exact same, except all those numbers were half. Cost of living here is much lower though so I understand. Anyways, keep up the great work!
 
WOW.

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Great save. I just ordered some speed to add to my arsenal of CUT, ADAPT and POLISH.
 
Hi! What a great save, congrats! It amazes me how you pros just do magic :)
If you don't mind, could you please give a little more detail on the process you used? I have had my 2014 Nissan Maxima ruined the exact same way, and now I will try to fix it myself. The HD Speed was recommended to me to solve the issue, so I did order that, got the PC and some pads. As Infiniti and Maxima are pretty close to each other, could you please tell me what pad you used, how many section passes you had to do to get it right, what speed etc.? I know mine won't be exactly the same but it would give me a closer idea. I was told try the whiteSSC or green SSC pad first with the HDspeed, and do about 4-6 passes on speed 5 on PC. I would greatly appreciate it!
Again, great job on the save.
 
DeansDetailing said:
WOW.

Thought this was a great pic to add the following text:



Great save. I just ordered some speed to add to my arsenal of CUT, ADAPT and POLISH.
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@ OP / OCD Detailing - consider the famous pitch we have seen regarding haircuts - "We fix $10 haircuts." Converting it to "We fix $300 (or whatever) detailing jobs."

I think either caption is GREAT!

Wonderful job on the "fix." Well done.
 
AllanS said:
@ OP / OCD Detailing - consider the famous pitch we have seen regarding haircuts - "We fix $10 haircuts." Converting it to "We fix $300 (or whatever) detailing jobs."

I think either caption is GREAT!

Wonderful job on the "fix." Well done.
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Mind if we share this pic??
 
I would charge a lot more than 300$ to put stripes like that on a car, looks like a lot of work ;)

Maybe I should add this to my services and call it the Zebra package ;)
 
runrun411 said:
A little earlier I just mentioned in another thread that I wanted to get a rotary but I'm a little intimidated with them. I have a few nice DAs but I don't want to fool around with a rotary until I have a lot more hours of experience. This is a perfect example why. I know that it's great for production details and saves a lot of time. I'd rather spend a few more hours than do this to mine or someone else's car.
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Rotaries are riskier but the pad choice also determines the risk. If you go with foam, it's gonna be much harder to damage paint. On the other hand, a simple mistake with a wool pad can burn through clearcoat in no time.

I have a rotary and don't use it much. But I have no wool pads, just foam ones.

To tell you the truth, I much prefer my Rupes Bigfoot 21 for just about everything except curved panels.
 
Calendyr said:
Rotaries are riskier but the pad choice also determines the risk. If you go with foam, it's gonna be much harder to damage paint. On the other hand, a simple mistake with a wool pad can burn through clearcoat in no time.

I have a rotary and don't use it much. But I have no wool pads, just foam ones.

To tell you the truth, I much prefer my Rupes Bigfoot 21 for just about everything except curved panels.
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So often I see people using a wool pad with a rotary. I guess it's also a question of when do you use a wool pad and for what application is it necessary to use foam. It seems like so many people (on this forum) is so well versed with it. On the other hand it seems like so many other people (not on this forum) are so, so bad with a rotary. Because I'm so educated with detailing it seems as if a rotary should be somewhat simple but deep down I know way better than that. I think I'll take a class before I buy one.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Too bad Poorboy's moved, when he used to do the detailing days up here they always had scrap panels from the bodyshop next door, and rotary lessons.
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I'm trying to make it to DF next year. If so I'll catch Mike's class.
 
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