Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
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Eldorado2k
He should be having all those conversations with the detailers who installed on his car, not you. At this point he’s sort of wasting your time when you could’ve just done a proper job to begin with. It’s not your problem, right?
Very true. Sometimes I feel that I’m too nice but now that the mystery has been solved and he’s on his own. A part of me wanted to know what this coating was which is why I continued to help him and I did feel bad for him. Unfortunately this guy wasn’t the only person in my neighborhood to fall victim to this detailer.
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
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opie
Sometimes folks need to learn the hard way, sad to say.
Im cheap compared to what the actual buisnesses around me charge for the same work. I personally cannot justify charging more, i feel like id be ripping folks off if i did. I feel that i do good work for a good price. Folks are happy and i keep getting work, and i still make money.
I kinda feel bad for the guy too. But not much ya can do really other than tell him...sucks to suck[emoji23][emoji23] jk
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The guy told me that all of his friends with Teslas had their cars coated by this guy. Not one of them found it strange that a 2 year coating starts around $700 and this guy was somehow able to offer a 7 year for $600. The sad thing is none of them know anything about car maintenance and for the next seven years are going to drive around thinking that have a bulletproof dirt shield on their cars.
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
While the g/f was napping on the couch I decided to head out to the parking lot to do a RW on the EN. Tonight's choice was DIY Detail RW...pure clean! Now it had very light water spots from yesterday's morning storm where it sat in the rain but looked pretty good to be honest[emoji56]
I also used some of the leftover RW to even out the tires & wheels...soooo good here[emoji362]
I decided to clean it real good as my girlfriend and I are going to Maine this weekend so even though it's going to sit clean from today till Monday late morning when we get back, I just feel better with it having a clean slate[emoji120]
I'll be off the grid for a bit unless I see some special car in Maine, somewhere I've never been before, nor the east coast for that matter besides going in a d out of NJ about 15 yrs ago[emoji118]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b5f5fd17cd.jpg
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Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
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Optimus Grime
I had to have a somewhat unpleasant conversation with a former prospective customer.
He originally was going to come to me to have his Model X coated. I’m a home based detailer and because my operating cost is low I consider myself to be an affordable coating installer but he found a detailer installing 7 year coatings for $600 (red flag #1) and he had that detailer apply a coating to his car. He came to me for some advice after it was coated, he lives in my neighborhood, on how to maintain it and I told him to find out what kind of coating so that I could tell him the maintenance products. The detailer never revealed the coating (red flag #2). He came to me yesterday after finally being told that the coating came from a Majestic Solutions store near me. The customer recalled that the bottle looked lavender so I did some looking around on the web and found the coating and informed my neighbor that his coating was a 2 year topper called Shield Repel.
I’m a little torn though. Part of me feels bad for the guy. His first experience with a coating was when he tried to apply Adam’s Advanced Spray Coating and ended up with the entire car being a high spot and scratched to hell. Then he just wasted his money on a subpar coating that is underperforming as his car is always dirty and the coating has poor self cleaning capabilities. He didn’t say it, but he looked completely dejected when he found out the coating. The other part of me is saying this is what you get when your only consideration for something is the price and not quality or the integrity of the detailer. If something is too good to be true, it probably is.
I'm going with column B there, Optimus. Entirely unrelated to detailing as I'm in IT but just today I was chatting with someone else that's been at my firm for ~40 years like I have and we were lamenting how the quality of work done by our outsourcing vendor (replacing skilled staff that were RIF'd) is sub-par. I shared one of the sayings of a former colleague of ours (retired, not RIF'd) who says "You don't always get what you pay for but you always pay for what you get". It seems very Mencken-ish but have never found an actual attribution; certainly sums up your neighbor's experience IMO.
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
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Klasse Act
While the g/f was napping on the couch I decided to head out to the parking lot to do a RW on the EN. Tonight's choice was DIY Detail RW...pure clean! Now it had very light water spots from yesterday's morning storm where it sat in the rain but looked pretty good to be honest[emoji56]
I also used some of the leftover RW to even out the tires & wheels...soooo good here[emoji362]
I decided to clean it real good as my girlfriend and I are going to Maine this weekend so even though it's going to sit clean from today till Monday late morning when we get back, I just feel better with it having a clean slate[emoji120]
I'll be off the grid for a bit unless I see some special car in Maine, somewhere I've never been before, nor the east coast for that matter besides going in a d out of NJ about 15 yrs ago[emoji118]
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I just got back from a stint through NYC and upper Michigan (but not UP), and there's just no place like home! However, I would leave home to check out Maine. That's on a list.
Looking to try some new Kamikaze products this weekend after a few off... no place like home!
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Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
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Klasse Act
I decided to clean it real good as my girlfriend and I are going to Maine this weekend so even though it's going to sit clean from today till Monday late morning when we get back, I just feel better with it having a clean slate[emoji120]
I'll be off the grid for a bit unless I see some special car in Maine, somewhere I've never been before, nor the east coast for that matter besides going in a d out of NJ about 15 yrs ago[emoji118]
Enjoy!
Maine is nice. We went to Acadia and Machias a few years ago. My girlfriend wants to go back.
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
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Optimus Grime
The guy told me that all of his friends with Teslas had their cars coated by this guy. Not one of them found it strange that a 2 year coating starts around $700 and this guy was somehow able to offer a 7 year for $600. The sad thing is none of them know anything about car maintenance and for the next seven years are going to drive around thinking that have a bulletproof dirt shield on their cars.
Yeah thats pretty sad. And shame on the guy offering a joke of a "7" year coating.
I try to tell everybody, look..this is a 2-3 year coating. BUT in order to get the performance out of it, you need to do the maintainance washes. It is key to success. Also proper wash techniques. Heck that last black gmc pickup i did.... i know that one and his new blue 1/2 ton duramax i did in may is not going to make the distance. It doesnt get the proper care. Its a shame but i can only lead a horse to water...[emoji2373]
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Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
Rinseless wash, with Oberk, Absolute, and Wolfgang Uber
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Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
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Karl_in_Chicago
I'm going with column B there, Optimus. Entirely unrelated to detailing as I'm in IT but just today I was chatting with someone else that's been at my firm for ~40 years like I have and we were lamenting how the quality of work done by our outsourcing vendor (replacing skilled staff that were RIF'd) is sub-par. I shared one of the sayings of a former colleague of ours (retired, not RIF'd) who says "You don't always get what you pay for but you always pay for what you get". It seems very Mencken-ish but have never found an actual attribution; certainly sums up your neighbor's experience IMO.
This actually reminds of the last maintenance wash I did. For vehicles that I have coated I have a reduced cost maintenance wash and Tuesday I washed a friend/customer’s CRV. She just threw it out there that I should check out the guy on the corner who charges $60 for an in and out. This is the same person who’s car looked like absolute #### before I got my hands on it because she went with a cheap wash and wax. Her paint was trashed, trim severely faded and I’m not sure if those things on the front still qualified as headlights. I fixed all of that to the point that her neighbors were asking for my number.
I flat out told her that I refuse to compete. If she wants to go with the cheap guy to save a few dollars don’t call me when your paint starts flaking and your car looks like you’ve driven through barbwire. Cheap isn’t good and good isn’t cheap.
Re: What did you do today, in regards to detailing?
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Coatingsarecrack
I would go fulle Karen and talk to the manager and if the place was an insurance recommend them as well.
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I didn't have to go full Karen. Geico is going to handle it. It's gonna be another inconvenience but another shop will handle the correction and pay me for having to redo the coating again.