What would you charge for this DISGUSTING Sebring Sedan interior detail?

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tommyortom

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Have the chance to detail the interior of this horrible Sebring. There is crap everywhere, seats and carpet are trashed and oil covered or something, crud all over the door panels, dash and center console. I'm guessing the detail will take at least 3 hours. Here are some crappy cell phone pics for now, I'm gonna take real pics soon.



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In all honestly, I'd probably turn it down or tell them $125-150 at least to do the interior. Good luck getting it done in 3 hours. You will be hating yourself if you aren't getting close to $40 an hour to clean that pig.
 
Man I wish half my details that come in were that clean. That's an easy one. It's real easy to clean filth because just by doing the simplest things like vaccumming you've made it look a 1000 times better. that would be a simple $65 out the door fee here at my shop. (sometimes I think you guys are spoiled on here with the gravy boats you all seem to get all the time LOL)
 
Jakerooni said:
Man I wish half my details that come in were that clean. That's an easy one. It's real easy to clean filth because just by doing the simplest things like vaccumming you've made it look a 1000 times better. that would be a simple $65 out the door fee here at my shop. (sometimes I think you guys are spoiled on here with the gravy boats you all seem to get all the time LOL)
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Very true about extra filthy stuff.



Not true about being spoiled :D
 
As a customer, not a pro, I would be willing to pay $125 - $150 for a full service interior detail on that mess. Though, of coarse if it were my car it would never look like that to begin with!!



-Frank
 
Jakerooni said:
Man I wish half my details that come in were that clean. That's an easy one. It's real easy to clean filth because just by doing the simplest things like vaccumming you've made it look a 1000 times better. that would be a simple $65 out the door fee here at my shop. (sometimes I think you guys are spoiled on here with the gravy boats you all seem to get all the time LOL)
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$65.00 for a complete restoration of that interior? Not sure if you noticed but those seats and carpet (mostly carpet) are just about 40-60% brown / black. If you pull full on steam/shampoo & vacuum jobs for $65.00..i'd gladly drive my truck up to mich for that kinda service.





As kappinn said. No less than $50.00/hr and if they complain just stick em with $150.00 total or tell tehm to....JOG ON!!!
 
Every time I see a car like that I wonder how much that crap can affect my health. I get calls all the time from people saying they just need the interior done that it's nasty or that there is a lot of dog hair. I quote $150 for the interior right away. 99% of the people end the call there. It's not like I don't want the business but it's not worth the health risks involved (and the back ache!).
 
If I had the correct equipment (steamer, extractor) for such a pig sty it would be $175 or more. I just don't have the patience to deal with someone that has let their possessions go to hades like that.
 
You could probably do it in 3 - I did a similar car this year and what I did was pull the seats, soak *everything* in 5:1 APC, vacuum, wipe the vinyl down to remove the APC and grime, spray the carpets with Folex, extract, then folex/extract the seats. The initial soakdown with APC saves a ton of time.
 
I don't know how ANY detailer can justify charing anyone $50 per hour for their time? High end body shops that have bodymen that are I-CAR certified don't charge anything close to that to perform premium body repairs. I'm not knocking the skill level of detailers, but a certified experienced bodyman has a much greater skill set than detailers and they make & charge less? I think alot of people complain how cheap some customers are when in actuallity we may be somewhat unrealistic. (I'm not talking about the people that only want to pay $50 for a complete detail)$150 for a job that takes 4 hours is certainly on the high end. If a vehicle takes longer, then charge accordingly. No matter if the vehicle is clean or dirty, I still clean every square inch of it. If I have to do extra work like remove seats or do extra steps, then I charge accordingly per my time. If a dash board is covered in grime, it takes me the same amount of time if it was clean. I still scrub it and blow out the crackes/crevises no matter what.
 
100-125 Sounds Fine to me. I am assuming they are cleaning it up to sell it (because if you can stand that filth for a minute, you can likely stand it forever), so they are getting their money's worth.



That car is a poster child for leather seats...
 
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