Middle Detail: 2003? Chrysler 300M

[pirex]

Good work as always! The interior is sweet! Can`t get any cleaner!

[supercharged]

Great job! Chrysler 300M sure is a beautiful car! Love it's interior!

[DavidJ021]

Damn I just did one of those too! You did way better on the carpets. What did you do? IMHO you charged too low, but I guess in Ohio thats the going rate. I got $220 for the detail I did on the 300M.

[P1et]

Beautiful work as usual. You know your pricing strategy better than anyone, keep up the good work!

You should do a P&L and see what you can come up with...

[Whitethunder46]

Beautiful work as usual. You know your pricing strategy better than anyone, keep up the good work!

You should do a P&L and see what you can come up with...

What's P&L?

David... for the carpets (and upholstery) my technique is this.

1. Vacuum
2. Spray entire carpet area w/ APC+ 10:1
3. Spray spot stains w/ Folex
4. Agitate spot stains w/ fingers very well
5. Scrub entire carpet area w/ Megs carpet/upholstery brush (love this brush)
6. Vacuum

For floormats, my technique is the same exept for the following:
After step 5, I then scrub the entire floormat one way w/ the brush so that the carpet hairs are all facing one way

If the floormat feels almost dried out, I spray a few squirts of water onto the mat.

I then vacuum the entire floormat in the SAME direction as I scrubbed it with the brush.

Now that the entire mat is perfect and the carpet hairs are facing one way, I then go back and make stripes for pure cosmetic purposes. Since the mat is already vacuumed one way, I can make the lines as thick/thin as I want, however I usually just make them as thick as the wet/dry vac attachment.

I'm going to tinker w/ an idea. I'm going to get a piece of aluminum or something, and stamp my logo "Hart's Auto Detailing" w/ the oval out of the aluminum. Now I have a template. After vacuuming the floormat in the one direction as stated above, I'll place the template on the floormat. Then I'll vacuum over the template in the opposite direction of the carpet hairs.

End Result: Instead of stripes, I'll have my logo vacuumed into the floormat! So, what do you think?

[Nica]

What's P&L?

David... for the carpets (and upholstery) my technique is this.

1. Vacuum
2. Spray entire carpet area w/ APC+ 10:1
3. Spray spot stains w/ Folex
4. Agitate spot stains w/ fingers very well
5. Scrub entire carpet area w/ Megs carpet/upholstery brush (love this brush)
6. Vacuum

For floormats, my technique is the same exept for the following:
After step 5, I then scrub the entire floormat one way w/ the brush so that the carpet hairs are all facing one way

If the floormat feels almost dried out, I spray a few squirts of water onto the mat.

I then vacuum the entire floormat in the SAME direction as I scrubbed it with the brush.

Now that the entire mat is perfect and the carpet hairs are facing one way, I then go back and make stripes for pure cosmetic purposes. Since the mat is already vacuumed one way, I can make the lines as thick/thin as I want, however I usually just make them as thick as the wet/dry vac attachment.

I'm going to tinker w/ an idea. I'm going to get a piece of aluminum or something, and stamp my logo "Hart's Auto Detailing" w/ the oval out of the aluminum. Now I have a template. After vacuuming the floormat in the one direction as stated above, I'll place the template on the floormat. Then I'll vacuum over the template in the opposite direction of the carpet hairs.

End Result: Instead of stripes, I'll have my logo vacuumed into the floormat! So, what do you think?

Thanks for sharing the process, I've been looking for a good carpet brush....I'll look for the Megs brush a try (if I can find it here in Canada that is).

The logo idea sounds like a wicked idea, I for one would love to see how it turns out. Please give it a try and post pictures/process as to how you do it and how it comes out.

Brillient man, BRILLIENT!!

[P1et]

P&L is Profits & Losses.

It's a financial statement that shows revenues, costs and expenses over a certain period of time.

[sparkie]

Nice job. Looks like full detail not a middle detail.