How do you guys make a living

[flamewerks]

i do it on the side with about 4-5 cars a month. i try and schedule them when i have a couple of days off where they can drop the car off one day and pickup the next day. i would say that most people dont care for swirl removal, they just want their car shiny and a clean engine bay and interior. its total opposite with me. the people who call me know about my work and expect for me to take care of the swirls and then the engine bay. they could care less about dirty interior. anyone can vacuum a car. since i have the cars for a couple of days, i have plenty of time to clean the interior

Most my work is interiors. I usually take an average of 8 hours for the interior, sometimes more, hardly ever less. Second is a polish, but like stated here, for most cars a 1 step is enough, most people won`t want to spend twice the money to get only 15% better results.

 

[MichaelM]

Most my work is interiors. I usually take an average of 8 hours for the interior, sometimes more, hardly ever less.

You do this for a living? What do you get for an interior?

 

[StadiumDetail]

You do this for a living? What do you get for an interior?

since he said double for paint correction, I guessing minimum 200 and as high as 300.



I could see that if seats were pulled side panels removed, and a full stripdown of anything just held on with clips which in todays cars is about 40% of the panels in your car. If you have the tools needed, it actually makes the interiors a whole lot easier to do since you aren't trying to get all the little crevices like under the seats.

 

[vecdran]

I wish I could charge the prices some of you guys do. I don't have a reputation, and have to charge $25/hr just to compete and break into the market. Not anywhere near as fast as some of you guys though.