Recent content by gamby

I'm gauging the logistics of starting something up full-time--I currently detail part-time from about late-March to November and then I'm stuck with the winter. :( What do the mobile guys do during the winter???

I got a ton of hate/negativity in this thread for saying the stuff lasts a year: http://www.autopia.org/forum/thread121211.html Well, I did my Mom's car again and here's what this "awful" stuff did after 14 months: (this is without any additional attention in the past 14 months outside of...

This post is my new (to me) daily driver--a 2000 Civic DX sedan. Car is in decent shape, but the paint had seen a few too many New England winters and a few too many automatic car washes. Welcome to the life of a paintjob in New England. The hood has had a fairly crappy respray, but that...

This car was a low-mileage example--51k miles, but it's led a neglected life. It belonged to the customers father and she inherited it. She asked me to "make it look right". This is what we ended up with: Interior was a mess, but I didn't take photos. "Grimy" is an understatement. The...

Detailed for her belated Mother's Day gift: For whatever reason, I kept forgetting to take pics when I had ever intention of doing so. I was too caught up w/ the task @ hand. Car hasn't been washed in forever. There was still leftover winter dirt on it. Car is garaged and is basically...

This car only has a couple thousand miles on it. It is an un-detailed garage queen that avoided its first New England winter for the most part. I did a very basic detail: Wash w/ Megs Deep Crystal wash Mothers pre-wax cleaner by hand spot clay on hood/roof/trunk Megs Swirl X (applied...

This car is an annual sprucing-up. The car has gone through the automatic car wash too many times, but is garaged both at home and at work, stored for the winter AFAIK. Last year's LSP of NXT 2.0 was still beading strong, FWIW. The car was pretty hammered considering its somewhat posh...

Customer called me Saturday and said she needed her car done that day, since she might be selling it in the very near future. I had a 4 hour window to do it, so it wasn't nearly as thorough as I would have liked. Car is an SLK230 Kompressor--I think it's an 02, but I'm not sure. Car it...

Car was garaged, but rarely waxed. Had some decent swirling, w/ the passenger side third of the hood being fairly severely swirled. Did a decent correction--got the bad part of the hood to 50-60% corrected and the other 2/3 to around 80%. I could have gotten better, but didn't have the time...