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How to do high quality production detailing - Your largest market!
How to do high quality production detailing - Your largest market!
We cover show car detailing or what you would call multiple step car detailing in-depth at all our classes.
To me and my guess is most the people that attend our classes, this is the fun part of car detailing, that is taking a diamond in the rough and turning it into a glistening gemstone. In fact we have more cars in our class to teach show car detailing in order to showcase all the tools you get to use at our classes and of course, how to use them to their fullest extent.
That said, we also cover high quality production detailing because that's the largest chunk of the DIFM detailing market.
DIFM = Do it for me
Production detailing is where you do ONE step to the paint besides the normal car washing, drying, claying, etc. Instead of doing dedicated compounding, polishing and protecting steps you use a high quality one-step cleaner/wax and do all three of these procedures in a single step as this SAVES YOU TIME and that's important for your entry level detailing packages if you detail for money.
Using a one-step cleaner/wax is also a good approach for any car owner and their daily driver as the paint on a daily driver will get a dirt stain embedded onto and into the paint when exposed to road grime over time.
Road grime is the dirty, oily water spray that's kicked up onto your car by cars in front of you when you drive in the rain. I have an article on this topic with pictures that tell the entire story here.
So besides all the cool cars we bring in for our classes I always bring in 2-3 mundane daily drivers in dire need of a good detail job to teach how to correctly do production detailing.
Here's our victim for the production detailing class, my buddy Henry's 2002 Chevy Avalanche.
The owner says he'll have the factory rim back on the passenger front when he drops her off.
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Re: How to do high quality production detailing - Your largest market!
Next... time to do something with the faded plastic trim....
Plastic Restoration 101 with Solution Finish
My good friend Chris West sent me some information to share how his product, Solution Finish works to restore the color to faded, oxidized plastic trim.
Originally Posted by Chris West
Hello Mike, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your support with Solution Finish and I am honored that you would include it in your workshop.
Here are a few tips and tricks, along with some technical information that maybe your students would find interesting.
First of all, Solution Finish is not an ink, dye, or stain – it is solvent-based modified black carbon.
Solution Finish does 3 very important things that are different than your typical plastic dressing:
1) Because it's solvent-based, it actually dissolves the existing oxidation on the plastic part.
2) It puts the black carbon back into the microscopic pores of the part being treated.
3) It contains antioxidants and light stabilizers that prevent the UV radiation from further oxidizing the trim.
What I’ve done is milled the carbon 7 times, making it as small as a virus – so with our modified and penetrating oil, it is able to draw the black carbon deep into the pores of the plastic.
In silicone-based products, the molecules are too “fat” (as we call it) to do anything other than coat the surface – a Band-Aid, if you will.
Pure plastic does not oxidize – it's the impurities and additives in the plastic that actually break down and cause the oxidation process to start.
When silicone starts breaking down and gasses off, it creates a hydro-peroxide gas which actually accelerates the oxidation process. Once that happens, it doesn't stop unless you prevent the gasses from forming; Solution Finish does just that.
Regarding the Avalanche you’re going to be detailing, it's interesting to note that the truck has 6 different manufacturers of plastics to on the vehicle. The running boards, quarter panels, bed cover, cab extensions, bumper covers and tailgate cap are all made by different companies.
Therefore, they all are susceptible to deterioration in different ways. But, as you will see, Solution Finish brings the black back and keeps it there.
Now if you look at the various sections of plastic cladding in the pictures, just like Chris stated, the plastic comes from 6 different companies and some components fade differently than other components. Just want to point this out as it's very apparent in the pictures and shows that Chris really knows his business.
Sean and Chelsea removing the hard plastic tonneau cover...
Demonstration: How to apply and work in Solution Finish
Using a black wheel and tire microfiber towel to wipe off any excess.
Removing the painter's tape....
Boom! There it is...
Hands on training and real-world experience restoring plastic trim with Solution Finish.
Sean and Chelsea removed the hard plastic tonneau cover so while the class was treating the plastic cladding on the truck I knocked out the tonneau cover.
Have to have a little fun once in a while....
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Re: How to do high quality production detailing - Your largest market!
Originally Posted by Mike Phillips
What's Nick doing with the dryer?
Blowing the wet tire coating into all the nooks?
Or drying the tire so the next coat can be applied sooner?
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Re: How to do high quality production detailing - Your largest market!
Originally Posted by Mike.Phillips@Autogeek
Hi Mike,
Questions.
1. In the first picture there was a student polishing the glass. May I know what is the techniques/products used?
2. In the second picture, the wiper arm seemed faded, did you manage to restore it?
Thank you.
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Re: How to do high quality production detailing - Your largest market!
Originally Posted by Mike.Phillips@Autogeek
...the Porter Cable 7424XP with a Cyclo Gray Interior brush takes all the work out of the job and does a much better job than you and your arm.
I would think that the bristles on this brush would be too soft versus the Aqua or White options. Did you also use the Gray brush on the plastic trim?
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Ragtime Detailing
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Re: How to do high quality production detailing - Your largest market!
Originally Posted by Batcave
I would think that the bristles on this brush would be too soft versus the Aqua or White options.
The bristles on the gray brush are soft but they wear well. The bristles on the white brushes tend to spread out and stay spread out with use. The green bristles seem to hold their shape pretty well.
I chose the gray brushes as a precaution as I didn't want the plastic cladding to get any scratches in it and didn't want to take the time to swap brushes during the process.
While the bristles on the gray brush are soft at the speed the polisher scrubs they still do a great job and both the tires and the plastic cladding came out perfect.
Originally Posted by batcat420
Did you also use the Gray brush on the plastic trim?
Yes and hand scrubbed two as we only had 2 Porter Cables outside for this project.
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