imported_Steelth
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wow look at this. Seems a little overkill for the car. If its a repost my bad.
Corsa Sport - for Vauxhall, Opel and Holden Corsa and Barina
Corsa Sport - for Vauxhall, Opel and Holden Corsa and Barina
Zymol Royal On A Vectra?
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vdubbya
Rochester Auto Spa
That is a new one to me so all I can say is WOW!!!
What a reflection and the wetness of the paint!
What a reflection and the wetness of the paint!
Pennypacker
New member
Thanks for posting that Steelth. I hadn't seen that before.
Yeah, it's the same guy from the video that's been posted a gazillion times.
5000 GBP is about $9,800. The car costs around 19,000 GBP if I'm not mistaken, which is $37,000 (I would never guess 37k if I saw that thing driving around). In any case, the detail is over a 1/4 the cost of the car!
I give credit to the owner though for documenting the whole thing. He did a good job there.
Yeah, it's the same guy from the video that's been posted a gazillion times.
5000 GBP is about $9,800. The car costs around 19,000 GBP if I'm not mistaken, which is $37,000 (I would never guess 37k if I saw that thing driving around). In any case, the detail is over a 1/4 the cost of the car!
I give credit to the owner though for documenting the whole thing. He did a good job there.
Pennypacker said:
The £5000 detail is he´s most expensive treatment, but he have cheaper treatments.
Take a look
Miracle Detail
LastDetail
Whose yer DADDY!??!?!?!?!
Wow the results are quite impressive, however I do beleive that I have seen equal if not superior work done by many of the detailers on here even at 1/20th or 1/15 of the price.
I think the seats might have looked better if he had gone with black throughout and hadn't bothered with the blue, but thats just my opinion.
Nice pictures and nice right up though. TINY garage those guys were working in.
I think the seats might have looked better if he had gone with black throughout and hadn't bothered with the blue, but thats just my opinion.
Nice pictures and nice right up though. TINY garage those guys were working in.
steelwind101
New member
The Astra has a realistic USA sales price of around $25,000 for that model. Its certantly no Impreza or Evo.
I dont know if you guys will get the VXR model (some still come with SS paint) but you can get the Vectra and soon the Astra from your Saturn Dealer.
Geoff
I dont know if you guys will get the VXR model (some still come with SS paint) but you can get the Vectra and soon the Astra from your Saturn Dealer.
Geoff
RTexasF
Pay Attention Boy...
That is what I would call a high tech detail.....and high dollar too!
imported_paradigm
New member
well documented thread...nice pics...just too expensive. 
the people commenting later in the thread sure rip into the guy...nothing like good 'ol autopia!
hahaha
the people commenting later in the thread sure rip into the guy...nothing like good 'ol autopia!
hahaha
steelwind101
New member
LOL
I wrote about how this does effect the UK detailing market and how all the detailers are now having to offer Zymol etc. Which does little benefit to the customer who can get similar looks (atleast in there lay eyes) to a good detail done with less expensive products.
I think alot of people loose out. Not to say that Pauls work is bad or indeed he should stop he seems to have corned the market. Its just a shame that others have tried to follow (or even forced to follow by public demand that might well be incorrectly lead) and your read plenty of threads on UK boards where a person will ask what products a detailer uses. Then the person will ask why they should pay so much b/c X is using Zymol and they are not or is it work paying less for not using Swissol or Zymol.
Hmm!! I think many would be suprised by the work done by alot of top detailers on here who use less premium products. It seems now that premium products mean a good detail when premium products only compliment a good detail.
Further more a good detail is one specific to the needs, requirements and uses of vehical not one topped with a wax which costs £XXXX pounds.
Geoff
I wrote about how this does effect the UK detailing market and how all the detailers are now having to offer Zymol etc. Which does little benefit to the customer who can get similar looks (atleast in there lay eyes) to a good detail done with less expensive products.
I think alot of people loose out. Not to say that Pauls work is bad or indeed he should stop he seems to have corned the market. Its just a shame that others have tried to follow (or even forced to follow by public demand that might well be incorrectly lead) and your read plenty of threads on UK boards where a person will ask what products a detailer uses. Then the person will ask why they should pay so much b/c X is using Zymol and they are not or is it work paying less for not using Swissol or Zymol.
Hmm!! I think many would be suprised by the work done by alot of top detailers on here who use less premium products. It seems now that premium products mean a good detail when premium products only compliment a good detail.
Further more a good detail is one specific to the needs, requirements and uses of vehical not one topped with a wax which costs £XXXX pounds.
Geoff
I second this. But if the customer wants something extra and is willing to pay for the exclusivity, why not offering it? I would and I will.
If they don´t like exclusivity, why are they driving a Ferrari or Porsche for $100k? A Toyota for $700 can do the same job(IE transport a person from point A to pint B)but not under the same conditions and of course not as fancy as a Ferrari would.
I promise that the customer doesne´t see any different if you use Turtlewax from the waltmart or Swissol Best of show. If the paint is proper prepped. And I promise not many top detailers here would see any difference.
But if the guy in he´s Ferrari know´s that the wax who is on he´s cars costs $2500/jar he thinks the shine is much better then a coat of nattys blue for $15/jar.
So ff the market wants high $ products, well offer it and charge for the exclusivity. I would and I will.
If they don´t like exclusivity, why are they driving a Ferrari or Porsche for $100k? A Toyota for $700 can do the same job(IE transport a person from point A to pint B)but not under the same conditions and of course not as fancy as a Ferrari would.
I promise that the customer doesne´t see any different if you use Turtlewax from the waltmart or Swissol Best of show. If the paint is proper prepped. And I promise not many top detailers here would see any difference.
But if the guy in he´s Ferrari know´s that the wax who is on he´s cars costs $2500/jar he thinks the shine is much better then a coat of nattys blue for $15/jar.
So ff the market wants high $ products, well offer it and charge for the exclusivity. I would and I will.
Hi Guys......
Interesting reading from you all......
This is the link you should be looking at
Detailing World
Register and view.....
I think the fact that some people agree or disagree about the work involved with a car is relevant to the price is subjective.......
Paul Dalton in my eyes is the Bestt detailer in Europe and his gallery of bugattis and enzos i think proves the point but what i dont understand is how you can justify the cost issue.....
Yes i appreciate that an astra vxr costs £22000 to be exact when a Ferrari costs £222,000 but my goal on this car was to give it the best start i possibly could as i am passionate about detailing as i am sure you all are....
I could have had the caymann or the fatboy done but decided as did paul sometimes its nice to show how a less expensive car can come up the same as a supercar.......
Still i think the results speak for themselves regardless of cost!!!
Besides that nice to meet you all and visit autopia!!
:grinno:
P.s its an Astra not a Vectra
Interesting reading from you all......
This is the link you should be looking at
Detailing World
Register and view.....
I think the fact that some people agree or disagree about the work involved with a car is relevant to the price is subjective.......
Paul Dalton in my eyes is the Bestt detailer in Europe and his gallery of bugattis and enzos i think proves the point but what i dont understand is how you can justify the cost issue.....
Yes i appreciate that an astra vxr costs £22000 to be exact when a Ferrari costs £222,000 but my goal on this car was to give it the best start i possibly could as i am passionate about detailing as i am sure you all are....
I could have had the caymann or the fatboy done but decided as did paul sometimes its nice to show how a less expensive car can come up the same as a supercar.......
Still i think the results speak for themselves regardless of cost!!!
Besides that nice to meet you all and visit autopia!!
:grinno:
P.s its an Astra not a Vectra
After reading this thread again i actually understand a little where your coming from.....
There seems to be a lot of emphasis on the top end products doing harm to the detailing communities which means as you guys say it puts pressure on the smaller guys to offer these as potential customers will feel without them they are not going to get the perfect detail but let me say
1....Paul offered me many waxes in his arsenal of which he has over 50 and
2... As you are more than totally aware the end result is all about the preparation and the paintwork correction and not always the product.....If your good your good but if your not no amount of product will make up for it!!!
There seems to be a lot of emphasis on the top end products doing harm to the detailing communities which means as you guys say it puts pressure on the smaller guys to offer these as potential customers will feel without them they are not going to get the perfect detail but let me say
1....Paul offered me many waxes in his arsenal of which he has over 50 and
2... As you are more than totally aware the end result is all about the preparation and the paintwork correction and not always the product.....If your good your good but if your not no amount of product will make up for it!!!
steelwind101
New member
Hi
VXR marc, your making news on lots of boards today!! :chuckle:
It was top work by Paul, your VXR looks great and by what i said dident mean to offend or diminish the work of any UK detailers :up
Geoff
VXR marc, your making news on lots of boards today!! :chuckle:
It was top work by Paul, your VXR looks great and by what i said dident mean to offend or diminish the work of any UK detailers :up
Geoff
Setec Astronomy
Well-known member
Seems like we're really getting into the spirit of trans-Atlantic cooperation today, vxrmarc, since one of our members is a good friend of the gentleman that detailed your car: http://autopia.org/forum/click-brag/86980-uk-detail-mr-paul-dalton.html . Apparently Paul asked him to post your car here.
jdthompson
New member
steelwind101 said:
It's an interesting thought.
If you assume that all the work is in the prep i.e. the time and dedication a detailer spends presumably regardless of the products used, the actual product is a small part of the overall cost?
For example I don't know how many cars you can prep with a bottle HD Cleanse or how many cars you would get out of a tub of high end Zymol/Swissol wax, but if you break it down I would think it doesn't work out at a large cost per car.
What does cost is a persons time and expertise, and I would expect that to cost whether they use an 'ol or Autoglym or Meguiars etc.
I guess a big cost is in paying the various 'ols for the right to use their products and to be authorized etc. and I presume that's part of the reason a Zymol/Swissol detail costs more.