Top quality Carmax restoration....

Aurora40 said:
I think you are the one not getting it. Have you seen the vehicles that come in? If not you are just guessing. And of course every car that comes out does not look like the one in the OP.



But I don't believe anyone is saying that the way CarMax operates is a good way to detail a car.
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Ive seen cars you couldnt even begin to imagine, barely even savable. Still a claybar and a cleaner wax will make it look 100X better than improperly using a rotary.
 
Hi there im new to this fourm and I recently got a job at carmax as a detailer but I do not know how much I will get paid for each car could some body tell me how much I might make Thank You
 
When I just read this post, I had to respond. It must have been a fluke, but when I bought my car at the Dulles carmax it was flawless. It was from what I could tell 100% swirl free. All of the i's were dotted and t's crossed. I was (and still am with my strict standards) extremely impressed.



On another note, I paid $20,000 for a vehicle that had been completely repainted. All of the glass had been replaced, the paint job was so-so with some bad blending, and there are several spots that don't line up on the dash and exterior. They sold me the car that they guaranteed that they would not.



I will never buy another car from carmax, but the detail on the one I bought seemed 100%and was impressive.
 
wow...the lazy asses didn't even do the whole hood, if you look you can see only trails in the middle





man some people
 
Not a detailing problem but I thought I would share:



One of my buddies worked at carmax and he said they treated the cars like sh*t. People would hammer on cold motors and they would only put 84 in all the cars. So if your car needed a higher octane fuel than 84 to bad. I know the newer cars computer can control the fuel settings to prevent detonation if the car accidentally gets some bad gas, but its very sad that carmax does this.



I wont ever buy a car from them.
 
I just started week #3 of detailing full time at my local Carmax. I hated the job I had before and the 50 mile 1 way commute. Detailing at Carmax has taught me a few things, 1) How to properly wetsand and fill in scratches with touch up paint (though not quite at autopian standards) and that I don't want to have my own detailing business. I have been utterly exhausted after 10 hours of detailing. And my rotary experience was very limited before working there, now I am fully confident in my rotary skills and I can't wait for a plus 30 degree day to get some touch up paint and fix my chips on the hood of my daily driver.



As someone mentioned above, we get commission on our details and the faster you pump them out the more $ you make. I had a badly swirled dark blue Sierra today, I took my time with it and I was able to make it nearly perfect all the way around and still got it done in in half the time that I booked on it (2 hours start to finish booked 4 hrs)
 
Carmax sucks. I interviewed for a position in their corporate headquarters doing corporate strategy work, and they treated me like crap when I went in for an interview. I would never have bought a car from them before because I think "one-price no-hassle" is just a nice way of saying "you're getting ripped off", but given the way they treated me in a job interview I really would never buy from them.
 
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