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82CapriRS

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might be an old post, but i just watched it. i love keeping my car clean but come on. oh an he waxes with his hands!, im sure he does.... . anyways check it out sorry if its a repost just thought everyone should see this.

http://www.dpccars.com/car-movies/04-20-06pageExtremeCarDetailing.htm
 

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Geez. Where i'm from all you need is some terry cloth rags and a can of tire foam and you can detail the hell out of anything
 

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haha yeah i wash my car like every day. wax every other month or so an spray detailer in between. i thought i detailed my car good..yeah then this guy comes along lol
 

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Well it's pretty stupid to spend that kind of cash on detailing if the detailing job costs more than the car and/or paint job that you're having detailed.

This is a perfect example of more money than sense but i guess if you can afford a million dollar car you can afford a 5k detail job.
 

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well said deff wouldnt be worth it for me cuz i only paid $1700 for my car haha
 

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thats just stupid. i could do a better job with a bottle of armor all.

and its a fricken white car!!! how shiny do you want it?!?
 

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hard life when your biggest nightmare is bird droppings
 

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If i had a Bugatti Veyron i'd only wax it in the blood of Asian virgin girls
 

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its people who are lazy an dont wanna do it an have lots of money go to that guy. anyone wanna start a business? haha we can charge $2000 for rich idiots who think there gettin a deal
 

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Detailing is a high end business even for regular cars. When i was a kid my parents ran a detail shop in Lexington KY and detailed all kinds of high end cars from sports cars to limos. We did Jim Breech's Porsche once (he used to be place kicker for the Bengals) and he had gold plated beauty rings on the rims. A lot of what they did was stuff like chip repair, high speed buffing and interior detailing.
 

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Looks like some BS they would do on Unique Whips.
 

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its a good business to be in once you get your name around. my buddy just started his own detail shop. its slow now but summers here an it should pick up. hope he does good cuz thats where i have my car parked, in a nice garage from his shop lol
 

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i bet you he just faped in that jar and called it 2k that guy is good at washing cars ... wow, thats i want to be known for
 

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82CapriRS said:
its a good business to be in once you get your name around. my buddy just started his own detail shop. its slow now but summers here an it should pick up. hope he does good cuz thats where i have my car parked, in a nice garage from his shop lol
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Strangely enough we did about the same amount of business in the winter because some regular type people would just wash and wax it themselves but in the winter it's pretty tough to do.
 

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yeah i was thinkin that. he just opened the doors maybe a couple months ago so its still a very new place. hope it works out for him though. i think he generally charges about $150 a car. shampoo rugs clean interior wash wax an whatnot.
 

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Buffing is pretty expensive around here. You can expect at least $150 for just a high speed buff and wax job. Once you get into shampooing interiors and cleaning engine bays you can rack up a big bill.
 

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85_SS_302_Coupe said:
Buffing is pretty expensive around here. You can expect at least $150 for just a high speed buff and wax job. Once you get into shampooing interiors and cleaning engine bays you can rack up a big bill.
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what do you do to clean the engine bay degreaser and power washer?
 

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only thing about him is that he doesnt really know much. i mean im not an expert but he needs to use better wax atleast. he does it all by hand i believe. i should start my own place an do high speed buffing an whatnot. i knew it was good money but didnt think it was that much geeez
 

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what do you do to clean the engine bay degreaser and power washer?
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More or less, it just depends on how dirty the engine bay is. A lot of our clients had cars that most people wouldn't even consider to be dirty...

I did my Merkur today though. I used Super Clean and some engine degreaser stuff and various rags and brushes. Then to dress hoses and plastics use some cheap tire foam spray. In some cases you can literally cover the entire engine bay in tire foam and then wipe everything down and have a super clean engine bay. We used to call it the "used car lot detail"

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That's without really taking anything apart. I have a car show to go to Sunday, otherwise i'd probably take the alt. off and the brackets off and the intakes and have them media blasted. I need to do the pulleys too and i really need to do something about that cam gear.
 

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looks good. i gotta do that to mine still. waitin for valve cover gaskets an then ill get to that. mines not to dirty to begin with so it should turn out good. heres what it looks like now.

 
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