How did you get trained?

[3000rpm]

It seems there's 4 ways of "going pro":

1. Attend a school (RightLook, TotalPros, Detail King, Detailing Success, etc.).
2. Self-taught: trial and error, research online, etc.
3. Work at a car dealership.
4. Work at a detail shop.

Where did the pros here get their training?

[habeba86]

2

[shoeless89]

I wouldn't consider myself a "pro" but #2

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[ShineTimeDetail]

I wouldn't consider myself a pro at everything but everything I know has been learned by trial and error. Once I found this site I learned a whole heck of a lot more than I know before!!

[weavers]

2. self taught and online research. autogeek has helped me out so much. It took about 10 hours to really master a DA. by the 5th detail i felt really comfortable. I own a mobile car detailing, its just part time.

I am not on the pro level. ie wet sanding, 50 hour details on lamos to showroom perfection. but I do a "like new" look for not much money. I need more experience with wet sanding paint and also body panel repair/spray painting.

[Dugdug]

2.

[jpegs13]

I'm not a pro. But I detail all of my own cars and as Mike always says "Each one teach one". And I have, and he is now a pro detailer. That's pretty cool.

I learned everything about detailing here at AG. Reading, asking questions, then going out and doing trial and error.

[BobbyG]

Without a doubt #2.

Trial and error mostly practicing on my own cars then working in a bodyshop gave me all the victims I needed to learn and understand how not to destroy the finish of a car.

[Tundra_10]

Reading comments of what a few of you wrote makes me giggle and smile a little. Its the mentality indicative of this forum, you all are so modest at your great skills. I have viewed pictures from just about every single one of you that illustrated some of the most amazing feats and results that are at the very least, extraordinary or extremely impressive. Yet you say that you are NOT a "pro".

I am not knocking any of you one bit as I have so much respect for you all, for the dedication you put in and the kindness, generosity, and insight you bring to this forum. This is one of many reasons I come back here every 5 minutes to see what else someone has wrote about.

My hat goes off to each and every one of you that responded. Without a doubt if you lived in my area, I would want to surround myself by all of you because of who you are.

Maybe in your minds your not "pro's", but to the masses, you are!

[Ted S.]

[Not pro, per se]#2 Trial and error

Well, for the most part. Lots of tips and pointers form AGO as well.