Detailing in Sweden

[Möller]

Just want to share some pictures of what I'm doing over here.

I'm like the worst detailer ever to take before pictures but I hope that is ok if I promise to improve my self.



The first one are a Merc CL600 that I detailed this monday, it was in a pretty bad shape from a lot of mashinewashes.

This is the result

The next one was my weekend job last weekend, a BMW 740 driven by a guy who thinks he cares about his car when he fills it up with gas

This is what it looked like when I got it

This time I forgot to take good pictureas after :wall:

I did it inside as well but guess what, forgot the pictures

 

[vtec92civic]

looks like some nice work their and nice cars.



I need a nice shop like that to work in. Hows business over there in sweden?

 

[Möller]

We have very nice cars where I work now, wich makes my work pretty easy but like last week when I did six -08 BMW 7 serie I got a bit bored and just couldn't wait for the old Beemer pictured above.



The shop are ok as long as the cars arent too big, we have a Dodge Ram SRT-10 in now and its almost too big.

The buisness are ok, not bad but could be better, its hard to find work. The company I'm working for now wants to hire me but they cant afford it. Hows buisness in the states? I keep hearing about all kinds of economic trouble for you "over there"

My dream is to move to the states, the land of the car, but I guess its not the best time now, right?

 

[Möller]

Todays work wasnt that hard, se got a car from Germany that one of our customers had ordered and since he is coming to see it tomorrow I just took care of the inside, the outside will probably be my project on monday.



The car is a Mercedes CLS 500, moccablack with dark brown leather. As usual when we get a car from germany its a bit dirty from the long drive but the paint looks good.....untill its washed. I dont know what the germans have against good carcare but it seems like they just spray the cars with silicone and says "Sher gut, looks good, lets have a beer and some brathwurst"



Well, this is what the car looked like before I started washing it.

During tha wash

After, looks good hu?

Lets have a closer look

Eaven the birds seems to like it, unfortunatley they show it in a bad way. This isnt the biggest but the one I got the best picture of

And of course swirls, its hard to get good pictures of them but belive me, its a lot of them, the whole trunk is messed up and the bonned doesent look that good either.

I thougt I should upload more but suddenly my computer doesent seem to work as I wish, you will just have to wait a day or two before you see the rest.

 

[tenorplayer23]

Hey Moller, nice to hear from Sweden. Your English is pretty good, so no worry there .



Should be time for all the snow tires to be out.......and must be getting darkkkkkkk. Last time I was there was a couple of years ago, in NOVEMBER. Such a nice place to be.......but, man was it rainy & dark . Well, not so much different than here, weather-wise, except even we have more sunlight!



Tell us more about the your business in Sweden and the automotive atmosphere. What's happening now that Saab has been sold by GM? Have you detailed a Koenigsegg lately?



Let us know.



See ya. :wavey

 

[Biz77]

Whats up dude im surprised you are not snowed in by now. You Swedes are cool people! I had the privilege to party with you guys in Crete GR and man can you guys party! Swedish women are amazing too!

 

[Mark77]

Hi neighbor, some interesting work there, I would love to see more pictures though..

We don't have snow here either, but rainy and dark...

 

[Möller]

Hey Moller, nice to hear from Sweden. Your English is pretty good, so no worry there .



Should be time for all the snow tires to be out.......and must be getting darkkkkkkk. Last time I was there was a couple of years ago, in NOVEMBER. Such a nice place to be.......but, man was it rainy & dark . Well, not so much different than here, weather-wise, except even we have more sunlight!



Tell us more about the your business in Sweden and the automotive atmosphere. What's happening now that Saab has been sold by GM? Have you detailed a Koenigsegg lately?



Let us know.



See ya. :wavey

Good, as long as I'm understood I'm happy



You are right about the dark thing, its depressing to start work when its dark and then leave work when its dark, I'm a summer person. But for the snow its not time yet, I live in the south of sweden and we dont have snow for more than a couple a weeks.



Nope, I have never detailed a K-egg, I was offered to work there but after I heard about how they treat their staff I said thankt but no thanks.

I dont have my own buissness yet, I would like to start something but it doesnt seem to be the time right now. I'm currently employed at a car dealer through our employment agency wich means that I have about a month and a half left to work then I dont know what happens. I may get hired by them but I dont know.

Whats up dude im surprised you are not snowed in by now. You Swedes are cool people! I had the privilege to party with you guys in Crete GR and man can you guys party! Swedish women are amazing too!

Like I said above, where I live we dont get that much snow, in the north they have about 1.5ft of snow by now. But you are right about the party stuff, we need the alcohol to keep us from freezing

Hi neighbor, some interesting work there, I would love to see more pictures though..

We don't have snow here either, but rainy and dark...

Hello there! I was half way to you today, I went on a roadtrip to Stockholm and back. More pictures will come, I have the CLS next week and today we got a BMW 750 so there will probably be some nice pictures of them

 

[porta]

What products did you use?

 

[Möller]

For wich vehicle?

 

[Scottwax]

Looks like you do pretty good work. Please share your process and products.

 

[porta]

For wich vehicle?

For all of them?

 

[tenorplayer23]

Porta, which part of Sweden do you live in? I was fortunate enough to visit 2-3 yrs. ago, but spent most of my few days there in Stockholm, with one trip outside the city to look for Swedish antiques. My friend had a business that specialized in them, antique Mora clocks, old white wash furniture, etc..



I enjoyed my trip......just wish it was in the Summer, rather than November.......between Copenhagen & Stockholm, I saw sunshine for a couple of days out of ~10. But, still liked being there........of course, I made the big mistake of "taking a nap" when I arrived in Copenhagen & that messed up my sleep clock for the whole visit.



Oh well........wish I had seen more. But am interested in how you work on cars and what cars they are??



See ya. :wavey

For all of them?

 

[Möller]

The products have I picked from here and there, trying to find a good match that works for for me.



For the washing I used Tar Remove from Autosmart but I didnt like the way it sticks on to the car after the wash so now I have a new one that I dont remember the name of right now.

I dont know the enlish word but to remove like flies and bird droppings I have a industrial cleaner just named that word I dont know. I also use that product for the rims and tailpipes but much more concentrated, for the rims I mix it 1-3/1-4 for the car like 1-10.

To finish the wash I use either Autosmarts Duett or Cargloss' wax shampoo and I use that both on the cars and on the rims, but with different spunges of course



For the inside of the car I get a long way just with the vacuum cleaner and the Toronador loaded with Brisk low foam from Autosmart, its now often that we get in cars that need more work on the inside than that.



The outside how ever can be a real challange sometimes, the German cars are a challenge to get the paint cleaned out from all the silicone they use there. The Swedish cars are ofthen machine washed and therfore full of small scratches that really sticks out in the lights of our showroom if I dont get them removed.

Depending on the condition of the paint I have three different pads that I use in combination with different products. Yellow, red and blue, the yellow is the medium one, red are soft and lets in a lot of air so I can work a small area longer without it getting too hot. Blue is the opposite of the red, two three passes and the paint is smoking hot but its great to remove machine wash scratches with and if I ad water its great with stains from bird droppings. I have a few other pads as well but I get most of the jobs done just using these three.



The products I use mostly comes from 3M, Autosmart and LS Carcare (Swedish made products) Unfortunately my bosses are a bit stubborn so I dont have even have half as much different types to choose from as I wold like to have.





Im supposed to be at my parents in half an hour and they live an hour away so I guess I better leave now but I'll tell you more about the products later.



Thanks a lot for all the comments and thanks for a great forum!