Mobile Detailing the beginging bad luck

[shop1detail]

Hey everyone, Need to vent to people in this business. So to start off just a weekend guy here as this is a new venture where I have detailed cars since the 2000s but never did my own thing always worked for dealers or side jobs at my house. Now at 39yrs old I have a separate truck with all my stuff inside so I can be completely mobile. After a few years of being in a bad spot money wise and now eventually building this up to work I set out to do a job... a paying job not far from my home nice neighborhood and I have the worse time. its a dodge mini van....( I know and its bad) lady has 3 kids and van is trashed and I am only doing a full interior detail .

After doing this in sections just cuz its so bad pulled all seats ect. Then I have to use this lady's bathroom ..ugh nerves had got me as I'm not sure how I'm going to finish this van just me and I'm looking at a 6hr job probably in 92degree heat. Then it storms on me. I have to rush to get all the seats back in the van before everything gets destroyed or soaked. At this moment I wanted to sell all my stuff and be done detailing cars. I had to reschedule with the lady and she was super nice, now I have to come back and finish the job ... wow what a day!

Please tell me others out there also have had this struggle.

[TTQ B4U]

Do you have the ability to do them at home? I don't do mobile at all. When in a pinch, I price in an Uber for the client to travel back and forth and in rare cases if they are close, I can pick them up or shuttle them back. My be something you can do in situations where mother nature isn't cooperating.

[shop1detail]

I do but rather do this mobile as that is why the lady called in the first place . I do see your point , as a mobile guy I would like to keep It mobile. Although I have worked for other shops that something in this condition we would ask the customer to bring it in as would hog up the driveway for several hours.

[mckobe]

Rain?

[mckobe]

Did she have a garage you could of pulled the van into?

[Belo]

not a pro and don't know about a big storm, but some of those portable canopies are relatively cheap. Sounds like maybe this is a straw that broke your back though. I think that's why people farm this kind of work out if they can. It sucks, but there's money to be made.

[shop1detail]

yea was just a car in the driveway. I have done some bad spots for mobile detail . One spot was in a city type area car was parked accoross the street.. had to deal with the occasional car that would run over our pressure hose.. Never again with that kind of area. But again money is money. This car wasn't really as bad as I have delt with just I think nerves got me and then the random storm that started and rained That was it. I had to call it.

yea "belo" I would like a canopy buy I'm 1 guy for now so its hard to set those up. Like this time I would of had to worry about a storm coming in and make sure its anchored or I could be buying a paint job .

[Rsurfer]

You need to take the good with the bad. No one said detailing was an easy job, if it was, everyone would be doing it. They will be better days. Keep on trucking.:buffing:

[hooked]

With a canopy, you’d have to make sure you anchor the legs with sandbags or water buckets. Wouldn’t want a strong gust of wind tipping over the canopy and scratching up the client’s car.

[PaulMys]

You need to take the good with the bad. No one said detailing was an easy job, if it was, everyone would be doing it. They will be better days. Keep on trucking.:buffing:

Exactly.

And, look at it this way: It can only get better from here on out. :)