Driven Auto Detail: 2005 Ford Mustang GT

[mshu7]

My wife is a graphic designer at one of the local hospitals. When we started my business a couple months ago, we approached the hospital about offering my services as a concierge service to all hospital employees. The reason we did this is because they have a 4-page list of preferred retailers and those retailers offer some sort of incentive to the hospital employees. We figured with all the doctors and surgeons in the hospital, we hope that it will bring us a lot of business.

One of the people we worked with throughout the process was the head of maintenance who oversees everything inside and outside of the hospital. His team of people have a maintenance building on the back perimeter of the hospital grounds and he was nice enough to offer me space in the building during the winter months and days of inclement weather when I'm working on hospital employees' vehicles. Of course I took him up on his offer. So, after finalizing all the details he became my first hospital employee customer.

It was a good thing I could work in their building because when I left the house this morning, it was 33*. One problem that I encountered was that I couldn't find all the imperfections in the paint with my Brinkman light. After finishing the car and pulling it out of the garage and into the sun, I found some swirls that I wish I would of known about so I could have corrected them. Oh well, live and learn.

For those that have checked out my new website you've seen that I'm featuring Optimum products. I'm still in the process of clearing out some old products so that is why I am still using some other products.

On to the detail...

Vehicle: 2005 Ford Mustang GT / Dark Red Exterior / Ebony Interior / Owner is a heavy smoker
Service: Full Detail
Time: Approx. 6 hours (still on the slower side)

EXTERIOR
-Wash-
ONR

-Tires, Wheels, & Wells-
ONR
Meg's Hyper-Dressing 2:1 on the wells
DP Tire Gel on the tires
DG AquaWax on the wheels

-Clay-
TOL purple clay with ONR

-Polish-
Optimum Polish via UDM and Meg's yellow polishing pad

-Protect-
Optimum Opti-Seal

INTERIOR
-Carpets & Mats-
Vac
DP Total Interior Cleaner
Durrmaid Hot Water Extractor
Meg's #23 Odor Eliminator

-Leather & Plastics-
DP Interior Cleaner
DP Interior Protectant

-Glass-
DG Rain Repel

BEFORE

[mshu7]

AFTER

[Tonya]

Very nice job! That is a great opportunity for you! Congrats!

[steveh4263]

That's clean and pristine! Car looked good to begin with, but now much better.

[richy]

Nice Improvement there!!

[supercharged]

Great job, car came out beautiful.
Two questions for you, how do you like Meg's #23 Odor Eliminator and DG Rain Repel?
Most of the time I use Klasse AIO on windows topped with DG #105.

[Dust2Glory]

dude that's lookin spiffy! can't believe it was 33*, thats crazy!!! it's still close to 80 here in texas and im loving it!

[mshu7]

Originally Posted by supercharged

Great job, car came out beautiful.
Two questions for you, how do you like Meg's #23 Odor Eliminator and DG Rain Repel?
Most of the time I use Klasse AIO on windows topped with DG #105.

Meg's #23 seems to work pretty well. I've done a few smokers cars and between the general cleaning and using #23, I've not had any issues removing the smoke smell. I would recommend trying it.

I absolutely love RR. The first time I used it, I was amazed at how slick it was. I don't think the repelling action is as good as rain x, but if you're using this stuff to clean windows, it's one less step you have to do and you'll be applying it enough that you don't have to worry about it wearing off. You can even use it as a QD or add it to your washer fluid.

Dust2Glory,
Thanks for the compliment! I'm so jealous of your 80* weather. Fortunately, I was able to work in their maintenance building where I was almost too hot in my lightweight t-shirt. I hate cold weather!

[Mike T]

Looks awesome! Nice turn-around.

[wolfpacker92]

Great job man and a great marketing idea = a great opportunity....congrats!