Divine Detail - 2007 Volvo S80

[CalgaryDetail]

Well we were in for quite a treat with this vehicle. The vehicle was booked for a full interior, now to introduce the vehicle:
2007 Volvo S80
Well here is what we were up against:

Well the vehicle is in great condition, it’s actually brand new but it has been driven, well just like vehicles are supposed to be....driven.
Well on with the detail, first up all floor mats were removed along with personal belongings. Now we were ready to start, first the entire vehicle is given a thorough vacuum:

Meg’s APC diluted is applied to the carpet, let to duel and agitated with a Meg’s brush. Then all carpet is extracted:

Next it was time to give the entire vehicle a wipe down, for the wipe down Zymol Clear mixed with hot water is used along with a micro fiber towel and for all the vents a Swissvax brush is used:

Now it was time to take care of the leather, now this vehicle has gorgeous leather and it needed a good cleaning, for this Zymol Leather Cleaner is used:

Once all the leather has been thoroughly cleansed it was time to re-condition the leather, for this Zymol Treat was used:

Zymol Treat is applied by hand and massaged in to the leather.
Treat is left on the leather wile all the vinyl is treated with Zymol Vinyl:

Now it was time to give all the leather a final wipe down to remove any excess leather conditioner that was not absorbed in to the leather, then all vinyl was given a final wipe down.
That takes care of the interior all that is left are the windows, windows are left for last.
Moving along it’s time for the engine bay, for the engine bay Zymol Strik is used:

 

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Strik is then agitated with a Swissvax brush:

Well once the engine bay was agitated and satisfied with the results it was time to rinse the engine bay off and move along to the rest of the vehicle.
Moving along, it was time to pamper the rims and all areas, first P21S Total Auto Wash is applied to the wheel wells:

Then Amazing Roll Off is applied on the tires:

P21S Gel is applied to the rims. With the help of our long handle brush the wheel wells are agitated, for the inside of the rims the two inch and one inch wool brush is used, the face of the rims is agitated with a Swissvax brush. All that was left is to rinse the wheel wells, rims and tires.
This process was done to all rims, tires and wheel wells.
Now it was time to give the exterior a thorough wash. First the CR System is connected:

The two bucket system with grit guard is used:

For shampoo, Zymol Clear is used:

Along with a Zymol Sponge.
The entire vehicle, along with rims are washed and rinsed off with Dionized water.
The entire vehicle is dried of with various waffle weaved micro fiber towels. To finish off the engine bay, the engine bay is dressed with 303:

Tires are dressed with Zymol Tyre and windows are finished with a glass micro fiber towel.
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Well that takes care of the interior, now it’s time for the engine bay.
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Now you remember those dirty rims and wheel wells:

This is how they turned out:

Quite the lovely rims this vehicle has.
Well this concludes this detail.

 

[9D4E420]

Very nice work on the interior Mike! Since this was not a full detail, in US dollars how much did you charge?

 

[CalgaryDetail]

Very nice work on the interior Mike! Since this was not a full detail, in US dollars how much did you charge?

thanks,this one was 200CDN, at the time the canadian dollar was on par with the us dollar so it would have been 200us... now it would be 197.21US....

 

[Stephan]

nice work as always...I use the Zymol leather cleaner and conditioner also, I find they work great...

 

[Beemerboy]

Nice write ups and all as always...what are you guys charging for your details like this one?

You are using some high end products and not in bulk form so I just wonder what your product cost is?

 

[Beemerboy]

thanks,this one was 200CDN, at the time the canadian dollar was on par with the us dollar so it would have been 200us... now it would be 197.21US....

Sorry I didn't see this before I posted about the price

Thanks

Nice write ups and all as always...what are you guys charging for your details like this one?

You are using some high end products and not in bulk form so I just wonder what your product cost is?

 

[Stephan]

Nice write ups and all as always...what are you guys charging for your details like this one?

You are using some high end products and not in bulk form so I just wonder what your product cost is?

Thats a good point, I have looked at zymols site and I don't think they sell anything in large sizes, its all in small quantities and its expensive...good but expensive...

 

[Beemerboy]

thanks,this one was 200CDN, at the time the canadian dollar was on par with the us dollar so it would have been 200us... now it would be 197.21US....

Now that raises more questions for me..you seem to work in a nice shop and use some higher end products...is this your own shop?

How are you coming out on the other end profit wise? using the higher end products?

I charge about the same here in the US, but I am not using the expensive lines that you are and I'm buying in bulk.

Thanks you have a great shop one that makes me jealous!!!!!

 

[CalgaryDetail]

Thanks.

1. the shop is my partners house. We have the business registerd as a mobile wash at my house.... with that we cannot detail at my hopuse so we use his.. its a nice set up.
2. Zymol does not have larger sizes, no which kinda sucks but what can you do.
3. as for the proice, its alot yes, however we are an authorized reseller of Zymol (through zymol Canada) so we get a discount on products. The resller rate is good enough that we can afford to use zymol on everything.

 

[Reddwarf]

Great write up and pictures.

Where do you get those cool spray bottles (see photo of Ps21 total Wash on wheel wells)?

How many Swissvax brushes do you have?! LOL.

Again, great write up. :bow

 

[CalgaryDetail]

Great write up and pictures.

Where do you get those cool spray bottles (see photo of Ps21 total Wash on wheel wells)?

How many Swissvax brushes do you have?! LOL.

Again, great write up. :bow

thanks

we got the bottles from a bodyshop supply store here in town, theyt are better then the chemical sprayers you get from home and garden stores... they seal better, have an awsome pump and are bullet proof,... they are great

as for SV brushes, we have 2 interior and two wheel.... but we also have a dozen zymol wheel brushes

 

[teck]

Dude!! You have the best write ups I've Ever seen!

 

[CBlakeNS]

Nice work!!

 

[agentxc_02]

great job on the volvo. Kudo to ur work. As u made a dirty volvo to showlike conditions. How did the owner react to seeing ur work?

 

[Old Pirate]

Great job on the Volvo Mike!.....:rockon

 

[CalgaryDetail]

Dude!! You have the best write ups I've Ever seen!

thanks, im lucky enough that my business partner loves doing these so ther ewil plenty more in the future

Nice work!!

thanks

great job on the volvo. Kudo to ur work. As u made a dirty volvo to showlike conditions. How did the owner react to seeing ur work?

thanks, and i have no idea how he reacted I never talked to the owner, (i know him because a friend of my dads) his assitant called me while he was on a business trip, she comminicated with us, worked everything out, wrote the cheque fro him, did everything... so how did the owenr like it... according to people at the officer he liked it but I have never taked to him in regardes to this car :wall

Great job on the Volvo Mike!.....:rockon

thanks