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A customer called me today looking to schedule an appointment for her RV. We've been playing phone tag so I haven't actually talked to her yet, but in her initial message she said she had a Class B (I thought she said Class V, but some googling makes me thing it was Class B as I didn't find...

I've been extremely busy with work and school so it's been a while since I've posted, but lately a one-man distribution team has been making weekly visits to my shop in hopes of getting us to switch to him for products and supplies. He is kind of annoying and I had never heard of Automagic...

I rent space inside the service department at a local used car dealership. When I'm not there, the guy who works for the owner will sometimes bring in the dealership's cars and "clean" them and so on. Because a lot of people are in and out of there on a daily basis and I can't really lock...

I want to offer my customers a premium paint protection package this year, and currently have a bottle of Klasse SG which I have used many times on my cars and others. However, I typically use a machine glaze with a DeWalt rotary and for the premium package, follow with a layer of SG topped...

Last year, I got a call from a customer with an Escalade he wanted detailed. It was my first retail client and I only charged him $120, inside and out. I was supposed to call him the day before the appointment to confirm, so I did. I made 8 calls to him between 11am and 9pm trying to confirm...

Just out of curiousity, do the majority of you guys use washmitts and sponges, or does anyone use brushes? Both of the shops I worked for before I went out on my own used brushes (with a long handle) to wash cars except for the occasional black car in pristine condition. I ask because lately I...

I'm graduating high school next week and have been detailing for the past few years to pay for college. I do good work, use good products, I'm very professional, but I do all of the work out of my house or in rare instances, on location. This is mostly because I don't work very much in the...

Hey everyone. I just got a call from a new client (who has a fleet of exotic cars) and he is looking to have his Ferrari Testerossa, one of two of his cars going to a show in two weeks, fully detailed. I've never detailed a Testerossa, and am wondering if anyone here has and if they have any...

Greetings to all of my fellow professional detailers! After lurking for quite a while, I noticed that some of you in this forum frown upon dealership work. Now, I understand where I think most of you are coming from, since wholesale brings in substantially less profit per car than retail. I...