[Nevin]

Originally Posted by SSSVX

17 times in 4 months? There must be some thick wax and that car
might be heavier, lol.

Thanks for the sharing though. Right now, I'm lazy and don't have
much time. When I washed my daily drive, I used bugs remover to
clean my front bumper and all lower sections on 4 doors. After that,
cleaning the windows, quick wash exterior and flushing the car's
underneath and inside the all four fenders(I really enjoy this cuz'
all the stuff, sands coming out). Then I tried to simply wipe off the
dust on the engine compartment. Done. Last, I used eagle one(I think)
wax-as-u-dry thing to wipe it off. Still, it will take me like 45mins.
Those wax won't last really long. As I wash it two weeks later, I can
tell the wax is gone.

It will probably take me whole day to really wash, clean and wax my
cars and I will probably think it's not good enough. I once spent 4-5
hours to wash, clean and wax my SVX. I think it's just okay and I
didn't do anything to the interior. Perhaps I'm slow.

How long it will take you to detail the whole car? How much do you
charge people?

The wax as you dry stuff is okay, but it really doesn't add much wax. There's just kinda like an instant-detailer chemical in it to make it appear shiny. Anything that's 2-in-1 something something never works as good as doing both steps the real way. If I do a car by myself inside and out, it takes me about 5 hours. But I've done it plenty of times by now, and I like to think that I have a decent system down. I do still take my time though, and make sure it's done right, because espescially if it's a new customer, the first impression is VERY important. For a detail like I do on my car, I would charge around $160 for the whole thing. Larger trucks and SUV's typically run around $200 and the really dirty ones get up around $275. But for a car, it would be unusual for it to cost more than $150. It would have to be very dirty anyway.