Making money doing production detailing by Mike Phillips

[KevinR]

Most people, that is most of your customers only want 4 things when they get their car detailed,

1: Shiny paint (this is different than 100% swirls and scratches removed)
2: Black tires
3: Clear glass
4: Clean looking and smelling interior

This, more than anything, is what most people who want to detail for a living need to understand. A few years back I had a kid just getting into detailing who kept pestering me to "correct the paint" on my 20,000 mile 12 year old Porsche Carrera. I told him the car didn't need correcting. He continued to argue with me, pointing out some minor swirls and marks in the paint. Finally, I told him that I was well aware of the flaws in the paint, but I was unwilling to give up any amount of clearcoat just to correct them. (The car was Mirage Metallic; they didn't show unless you were specifically looking for them.) I did let him do a basic wash on my turbo Beetle and Z3, but he missed lots of basics and really didn't seem to be happy to have the work. I never used his services again.

[Guyb]

As a user of the Flex 3401 and HD Speed I was still blown away by how good this car turned out. I had a great time in the class and hope to take it again some day.

[Mike Phillips]

One of the most engaging posts I've ever seen on my Facebook page...

[Mike Phillips]

This, more than anything, is what most people who want to detail for a living need to understand.

A few years back I had a kid just getting into detailing who kept pestering me to "correct the paint" on my 20,000 mile 12 year old Porsche Carrera. I told him the car didn't need correcting. He continued to argue with me, pointing out some minor swirls and marks in the paint.

Finally, I told him that I was well aware of the flaws in the paint, but I was unwilling to give up any amount of clearcoat just to correct them. (The car was Mirage Metallic; they didn't show unless you were specifically looking for them.)

I did let him do a basic wash on my turbo Beetle and Z3, but he missed lots of basics and really didn't seem to be happy to have the work.

I never used his services again.

Good story.

I teach in my class that when detailing for money, often times a new customer will TEST you with their "other" car to see how you do.

If you do a great job then they will let you detail their cool car.


If you fail their test... buh-by

[Mike Phillips]

Shared here,

https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...ml#post1661550

[Jacob Harrod AUTOCLEAN]

Weigh your bottles before and after the detail and then do the math to figure out how much product you used and the cost per ounce.

What kind of device would you weigh the bottles with?

Also can you provide a short example so I can grasp the idea?

[JT Moto]

What kind of device would you weigh the bottles with?

Also can you provide a short example so I can grasp the idea?

A kitchen scale works just fine.

Weight the full bottle, then weigh after the detail and subtract that from the weight of the full bottle. That number is the amount of product used.


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[Jacob Harrod AUTOCLEAN]

A kitchen scale works just fine.

Weight the full bottle, then weigh after the detail and subtract that from the weight of the full bottle. That number is the amount of product used.


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Thank you very much!!!

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