2k2blackWRX
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At my detail shop I dont give the quotes unless my boss is away but when it comes to smokers cars we usually dont charge more because we clean every car the same even if it looks clean we still clean it.
For the record I smoke in my car all the time and have no problems with a really bad smell, ashes all over, burn marks or yellow stains. The reason is because I ALWAYS have my windows down and I ash out the window and throw my cigs out cuz I don't have an ashtray.
A good way to clean headliners is just to spray the whole thing with diluted APC (or any all purpose cleaner which we use on all of the plastics in the car to clean) and wipe it off with a mf towel or even better if you don't want to dirty up the mf towel use just an older cotton towel. We have a stock of MF towels at my shop and then like 30+ old bathtowels and all of the such and use the crap ones for doorjams, leather(because we scrub some bad leather and use alot of cleaner so it would soak the mf), and all the other spots where the towel gets all crapped up.
When cleaning a smokers car, I always know when its bad because our cleaner when sprayed on the platic and such will drip yellow cuz of the built up tar.
We also use a hot water extractor for all the carpets and cloth seats. Its a very large industrial one with 2 heaters.
Last, sometimes its impossible to remove all smells. This week I cleaned a guy;s car who smoked cigars ALL the time in his car. I mean there were burn marks all over, ashes everywhere. It was yellow in many places, realy ugly. After cleaning it there is only one solution for the smell.
We charge $30 to run an o-zone generator in the car, I first read about these from Autocare USA about 2 years ago I think. We got one for 200 bucks about a month ago and have used it on many cars its sometime the only way to remove all of the smell out of a car.
Oh and when it comes to charging, after we have finished a car I will tell my boss if I think the interior should be charged extra and he will decide if the exterior should. Sometimes we can not see the car before quoting because we have customers drop them off the night before or we pick the car up from thier houses.
Thats all I have for now.
Bryan
ps. A neat tricked I learned this week, car had a melted in crayon in the seat it was a blue one on a cloth seat and we hardened up and really thick. After using an APC, xenit and everything we had including a cyclo with scrub brush attached it didnt dent it at all. The trick was to use a heat gun to melt the crayon again and then suck it up with the hot water extracor.
For the record I smoke in my car all the time and have no problems with a really bad smell, ashes all over, burn marks or yellow stains. The reason is because I ALWAYS have my windows down and I ash out the window and throw my cigs out cuz I don't have an ashtray.
A good way to clean headliners is just to spray the whole thing with diluted APC (or any all purpose cleaner which we use on all of the plastics in the car to clean) and wipe it off with a mf towel or even better if you don't want to dirty up the mf towel use just an older cotton towel. We have a stock of MF towels at my shop and then like 30+ old bathtowels and all of the such and use the crap ones for doorjams, leather(because we scrub some bad leather and use alot of cleaner so it would soak the mf), and all the other spots where the towel gets all crapped up.
When cleaning a smokers car, I always know when its bad because our cleaner when sprayed on the platic and such will drip yellow cuz of the built up tar.
We also use a hot water extractor for all the carpets and cloth seats. Its a very large industrial one with 2 heaters.
Last, sometimes its impossible to remove all smells. This week I cleaned a guy;s car who smoked cigars ALL the time in his car. I mean there were burn marks all over, ashes everywhere. It was yellow in many places, realy ugly. After cleaning it there is only one solution for the smell.
We charge $30 to run an o-zone generator in the car, I first read about these from Autocare USA about 2 years ago I think. We got one for 200 bucks about a month ago and have used it on many cars its sometime the only way to remove all of the smell out of a car.
Oh and when it comes to charging, after we have finished a car I will tell my boss if I think the interior should be charged extra and he will decide if the exterior should. Sometimes we can not see the car before quoting because we have customers drop them off the night before or we pick the car up from thier houses.
Thats all I have for now.
Bryan
ps. A neat tricked I learned this week, car had a melted in crayon in the seat it was a blue one on a cloth seat and we hardened up and really thick. After using an APC, xenit and everything we had including a cyclo with scrub brush attached it didnt dent it at all. The trick was to use a heat gun to melt the crayon again and then suck it up with the hot water extracor.
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