Recent content by imported_speedingpenguin

Greetings Autopians! I can't believe 2007 was my last post here! Time flies I guess, I got sucked in to full time (plus) employment and eventually ended up starting another business and no longer had time to do more than the occasional detail job for friends / family plus my own vehicle(s)...

Whats a fair price? or how should I charge? I'm waiting to hear back about exactly what kind of detailing needs to be done, if its just make brand new cars look good for this show kinda stuff (which I think it is) or if there would need to be any paint correction or anything like that. Any ideas?

Owner just wanted the car nice and clean, had about 4 hours to work with, so I washed with Duragloss 901 (Thanks, Ivan, for the sample! I might go out and buy some more, that stuff was nice! compared to Gold Class, at least....), clayed the car which took a while, especially the back half of the...

With my orange and white pads, I dont have too much trouble getting them clean. A squirt or two of Simple Green and running them under some hot water while rubbing/squeezing the old product out of them is easy enough and never a problem. With my finishing pads, however, I can never seem to get...

The owner basicly wanted his truck clean and presentable, but after watching me polish my friends black Q45 (He's a friend of a friend) the other day, he told me to see what I could do with his truck, knowing that I didn't have much more than 6 hours to work with. Turned out looking great...

Do any of you put any little advertisements on bulletin boards around town? I'm talkin grocery stores, libraries, etc.? Do you make it any way so people can take a business card or something easy so they have your information? Any suggestions or advice? ideas? Thanks, -Chris

I've mentioned it in other posts I'm pretty sure, but I had been working at the Simoniz car wash for a few months now as sort of a temporary job. My "official" position was in the detail center, but with two other people working there most of the time, I really only was doing detail work on...

I was detailing my buddys roommates PT Cruiser today and my friends 3 year old daughter came running over as I was claying the car and was all excited and said "O'SHEA! You're cleaning the car! let me help!" Long story short, she's now an official employee of my detailing company. She actually...

I'm detailing a black Ranger today that has probably a normal amount of swirl marks (The truck is driven every day, taken through the carwash every so often, and is a few years old now). I'm using XMT #3 with an orange pad, #1 with a white pad, and am curious to know if I should follow up with...

I've got WAY too many bottles of both these products, I'm still kinda new to higher end products (Last 3 years I've used the regular OTC Meguiars stuff, but now I'm detailing professionally on my own and would love to expand my product collection) and am open to any reasonable trades. I've got a...

I think I've reached the point where its safe to say I have an unnecesary amount of several products. I have: 8x Meguiars #26 8x Meguiars #7 and 13x Eagle 1 Nano-protectant Anyone else ever realize they have stupid amounts of a single product?

I know they could probably be a little higher, but how much higher is reasonable? My target market is the middle-upper class market (Newer cars, Volvo's, Avalons, Grand Marquis, 3xx BMW's, Explorers, etc.), though I would like to work my way up to the higher class vehicles. Thanks for any...

Well, its reached the time where I've gotta REALLY push myself to go all the way with this business venture even though I'm not completly sure to what extent my goals will be met or exceded, I'm gonna bite the bullet and not put this off any longer. I registered my domain name, and I've designed...

As the time that I'm going to be starting to detail professionally draws nearer, I've been thinking more and more about how I'm going to support myself for the first weeks/months of building up business.... Right now I work at a carwash (ugh, its KILLING ME! :wall ), I'm required to work from...

Anyone have any experience with this? Last night i cleared out AutoZone of all the detailing stuff they had on clearance (My buddy who's the manager there gave me everything I wanted for a dollar each), so I walked out with 2x Megs #7 glaze, 5x Eagle One nano-protectant, 3x Black Magic liquid...