How many vehicles do you do per day?

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I myself try to do one per day so that I can focus on it without having to hurry to get the next one out. Only way ill take on two is if both belong to the same customer. How about you guys?
 
I only do one car a day doesn't matter what I'm doing on it. I like to focus on the car I'm doing and make sure I don't miss anything. Most the cars I do take a fully day to do so no way I could do more anyways. My customers like that I'm only focus are their cars and when I'm done after 6-8hrs they are very happy.
 
1-3 depending on what packages are sold.

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3 cars a day spread through out the day. Oddly enough vacuuming is what takes me the longest.
 
Depends if I am doing maintenance washes or heavy duty detailing.

I normally detail on the weekends only (except for the special requests) and have two guys working with me.

A full "maintenance day" is between 4-6 cars. Mix days do not include more than 3 wash/wax or 2 wash/clay/wax (in addition to my maintenance washes which are reduced in numbers to match hrs dedicated to the "upgrades"). Lastly no more than 2 full interior (including shampoo) and no more than 1 compound per weekend (normally)
 
TRUE STORY:

I started working at a shop a few months back. I was doing full corrections: proper washing, wheels, clay, tape off, compound/ polish or 1 step polish and protect. Sometimes depending on the level of detailing I could knock out a quick interior or wait until the morning. I would be able to get one car done a day. About 2 weeks in my boss tells me he is letting me go because I work to slow. He said he wants me to do 3-4 a day with interiors :buffing: I told him that was impossible and if it is possible then the quality must be crap. He said his old detailer would do 4 cars a day. He literally took a rotary and hacked them up. I detailed one of the cars he had in the back of the shop he wanted to sell that his old detailer detailed. Every, I mean every edge was burnt through. Clear coat burned through in certain spots.

Now if I was washing, I could do 3 cars a day but full corrections :confused: He made me feel like crap but I realized I would not give up my quality of work. I don't even think I could do 2 cars rushing. But maybe I'm slow but I can do one a day doing it properly. I wasn't even that upset I got let go because I didn't want to be involved with a shop that wanted to do low quality detailing.

Btw I did 10 paint corrections in 12 days...I must be too slow:rolleyes:
 
04Golf said:
TRUE STORY:

I started working at a shop a few months back. I was doing full corrections: proper washing, wheels, clay, tape off, compound/ polish or 1 step polish and protect. Sometimes depending on the level of detailing I could knock out a quick interior or wait until the morning. I would be able to get one car done a day. About 2 weeks in my boss tells me he is letting me go because I work to slow. He said he wants me to do 3-4 a day with interiors :buffing: I told him that was impossible and if it is possible then the quality must be crap. He said his old detailer would do 4 cars a day. He literally took a rotary and hacked them up. I detailed one of the cars he had in the back of the shop he wanted to sell that his old detailer detailed. Every, I mean every edge was burnt through to the primer. Clear coat burned through in certain spots.

Now if I was washing, I could do 3 cars a day but full corrections :confused: He made me feel like crap but I realized I would not give up my quality of work. I don't even think I could do 2 cars rushing. But maybe I'm slow but I can do one a day doing it properly.

Btw I did 10 paint corrections in 12 days...I must be too slow:rolleyes:
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To the op: I do one car a day.

Your boss is an idiot. Good for you for sticking up for yourself.

I love it when I hear,...."well, my old detailer....". I always ask WHY he's now your "OLD DETAILER".

He clearly can't/doesn't want to pay for your level of service. Tell him, 'that's ok,not everyone can afford me.'

You should have shown him exhibit A of the burned thru paint on the edges that his old detailer did such a great job on.

I tell those cheap azz people who try to run it on me that they can pick two: good, fast or cheap. People are idiots.

Not to be too harsh, but this really sets me off. Rant over.
 
Being a one man show on average1 -2. Regardless if I work 2 or 10 hours I bid my jobs by my hourly rate. Doesn't matter if it's a 100k car or a 5k car.
 
04Golf said:
TRUE STORY:

I started working at a shop a few months back. I was doing full corrections: proper washing, wheels, clay, tape off, compound/ polish or 1 step polish and protect. Sometimes depending on the level of detailing I could knock out a quick interior or wait until the morning. I would be able to get one car done a day. About 2 weeks in my boss tells me he is letting me go because I work to slow. He said he wants me to do 3-4 a day with interiors :buffing: I told him that was impossible and if it is possible then the quality must be crap. He said his old detailer would do 4 cars a day. He literally took a rotary and hacked them up. I detailed one of the cars he had in the back of the shop he wanted to sell that his old detailer detailed. Every, I mean every edge was burnt through. Clear coat burned through in certain spots.

Now if I was washing, I could do 3 cars a day but full corrections :confused: He made me feel like crap but I realized I would not give up my quality of work. I don't even think I could do 2 cars rushing. But maybe I'm slow but I can do one a day doing it properly. I wasn't even that upset I got let go because I didn't want to be involved with a shop that wanted to do low quality detailing.

Btw I did 10 paint corrections in 12 days...I must be too slow:rolleyes:
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I hope you aren't in S. FL. I'd hate to go to this guy! Wonder if he's been sued yet because of the damage the old guy did. If the old guy was so great, why isn't he still there?
 
One to two cars, max if it's just a re-clean. I feel that if I were to do any more that I would not be able to provide the quality that I demand of myself.
 
I transform one car a weekend, between Fri night 18:00 and Sunday 16:00

Interior
Wheels + arches
Engine Bay
Decontamination
1 or 2 step paint correction
LSP
Glass
Exhausts

They usually receive somewhere between 18 and 30 man-hours of my love:autowash:
 
Roughly 8 hours for a wash and interior. Usually I have to remove the front seats to get to the stuff between the console and the seat.

If it is paint correction then that can take two days to get right.
 
I work in a production setting at a dealership. I touch 6-12 cars in any given day, various packages applied. I can do 6 "full detail's" in a day without breaking a sweat. Generally my day consists of some type of mix between wash/wax/vac/tireshine, and full details though.(full details including but not limited to shampooing carpet/seats/mats, wiping plastics and a full blow out and applying a 1 step to the exterior with a DA) This doesn't include paint correction, which I do at my house which ON AVERAGE will take between 2-6 hours, but can take much longer as we all know. The key to doing more is moving fast, and being prepared. I understand that a lot of you guys are fully mobile and have a certain amount of time dedicated to getting to the location, setting up and breaking down. I still wouldn't see 3 average full details being an issue for myself in that case though. The most time consuming part of the detail (imo, I don't know about for everyone) is the interior. Moving fast and doing a good "once over" on the interior to begin with works out great for me. I just then have to go back in stages and give it what it really needs, and always finish with a vac in one hand, and a microfiber damp with some product in the other to catch things that might have been overlooked.
 
FLZapped said:
I hope you aren't in S. FL. I'd hate to go to this guy! Wonder if he's been sued yet because of the damage the old guy did. If the old guy was so great, why isn't he still there?
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Don't worry the shop is not in FL. The owner didn't know anything about detailing either. He was trying to expand his auto shop to offer detailing services so he would hire someone to do the detailing. He didn't understand why I took my time to use proper equipment, products, technique, time etc. All he cared about was if it appeared to be clean or as he would say shiny. He just wanted to push cars out like an automatic car wash. Like I said before I was not upset I got let go. I was doing quality work for people who did not care. His customers did not care either. His old detailer went around a car in probably 30 mins with a rotary. One of his long time employees would tell me stories about his old detailer and the no name brand harsh smelling chemicals/ products he used. I feel sorry for any car that goes through that shop now cause who knows what they are doing to them.
 
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