Detailing - load of tosh

[developer]

Hit the nail on the head, detailing is utterly pointless as it adds zero value to a car.

Zero value - absolutely - has anyone suggested otherwise?

 

[WDB124066]

I have and will. The people you meet just by having a shiny older Merc has surprised me, and in one case has been worth 100 times and more any detailing cost.

 

[developer]

I may not wish to follow how some spend their money but I also would berate their choices.

This is why people are bemused by the OP, particularly on a car forum.

If he'd raised it on Mumsnet it would have made more sense.

 

[moonloops]

Zero value - absolutely - has anyone suggested otherwise?

I hope not

 

[whitenemesis]

One man's waste is another man's investment..

Good job we are all different in our spending. I may not wish to follow how some spend their money but I also would berate their choices.

This is why people are bemused by the OP, particularly on a car forum.

If he'd raised it on Mumsnet it would have made more sense.

I ment to say I wouldn't berate them

 

[zoros]

WDB 1384whatever:

For a man/woman who earns $400,000 a year - net, you seem to be struggling to string a sentence together.

Anything that keeps it looking like Developer's year in year out with minimal time spent on cleaning is a VERY good investment in time and money.

The extra bling has served well to strike up conversations with people that I would not normally have meet on many occasions now

Can you please explain the correlation between a shiny merc and meeting certain people?

I don't understand your point - sorry

 

[WDB124066]

WDB 1384whatever:

For a man/woman who earns $400,000 a year - net, you seem to be struggling to string a sentence together.


Sorrow or whatever, can you please explain the correlation between a shiny merc and meeting certain people?

I don't understand your point - sorry

What is your concern with the sentences. In the meantime and since we are on this point yours don't seem to be appropriate?, seems you cannot even be bothered to get a person's name right - deliberately and I believe disrespectfully.

I don't believe you don't understand my point either.

Are you looking for a fight...

 

[Alex225]

If a person is happy to spend £500+ on detailing when in effect it has actually cost £50 for chemicals and about 4hrs labour (say £10/hr).

To be honest if that's the kind of service a detailed is offering I'd be inclined to say they're not an especially good detailer.

Don't get me wrong, a business is a business, prices get hiked up and profit is made. Not all detailers charge on those scales though. They will give you a price for a job and I'd expect £500 to equate to a couple of days work bit four hours!!

A thorough detail will make your car look incredible and there will be firms out there to charge a lot for what they do but not all.

I think perhaps the firm mentioned in the first post are milking the term detailing a little.

 

[Flackadder]

Loving this thread.

£20 for detailing. £500 for detailing. Tis' your money, spend it on what you will.

Merry Christmas.

 

[SL300-24]

I used to do all my cleaning but now I love my local car wash. The Eastern Europeans guys do a proper wash and clean, inside and out for £10 including tyre gel,even leave smelly thingy dangling from the interior mirror...pure class!

For £10 you cannot buy the materials, pay the electric and water used by doing it at home.

 

[moonloops]

I used to do all my cleaning but now I love my local car wash. The Eastern Europeans guys do a proper wash and clean, inside and out for £10 including tyre gel,even leave smelly thingy dangling from the interior mirror...pure class!

For £10 you cannot buy the materials, pay the electric and water used by doing it at home.

Why indeed use the two bucket method when you can use the 5 illegals method

 

[markwibbs]

So this is the car after a weeks trip south to Loughborough to visit me old mum. Somewhere during the journey we used that carpark otherwise known as the M6 and had the pleasure of getting tucked in behind a gritter between J18 down to J16.





So...did i use the two bucket method or not? Not bloody likely. It went through the Tesco carwash like it always does.

On the subject of Detailers: Two weeks ago I was at the NEC Show and approached a detailer (from Stirling) on the subject of removing some of the orange peel from the paint (there's a disgraceful level of this on a 212). Cutting to the chase I was in Stirling last week on business so went along to his shop. A full cutback of the lacquer and re-polish to show standard for the full car...how much do you think?




£6000. THOUSAND!

I asked if this included the thrice distilled gnats-piss protection or some other snake-oil remedy. Fell on deaf ears that did

£6000. hahahahaha.




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Big lad was he ? English ? That'd be Roy. Top bloke.

 

[markwibbs]

Hit the nail on the head, detailing is utterly pointless as it adds zero value to a car.

Tosh, if I may be so bold...

2 identical cars (price, model, spec, mileage, history) are for sale - one is run through a car wash monthly, swirled to hell with paint as dull as ditchwater, the other correctly detailed and looks spanking. Which one would anyone in their right mind buy ?

It comes down to why us folks buy a Merc - are looks anything to do with it ? Then detailing does pay.

How much is the crux. Anyone paying the OP's brothers rates is not doing any market research but dont tar all detailers with the same brush, most would consider £30/hour a fair rate, inc materials.

 

[KeithJG]

Detailing or car wash won`t effect the trade in price...lol

Now at the age of 68yrs have i fully understood why migrants come here as detailing can fetch £100 an hour, so who would blame them

More chance of swirls on a hand washed motor than a car washed one as the brushes go longways only!!

 

[Flackadder]

Have looked for 'swirls' on my car that os only ever hand washed..........none.

Though it was raining at the time ;-)

 

[Druk]

Big lad was he ? English ? That'd be Roy. Top bloke.

Could be. Does Roy look anything like Hosni Mubarak?

 

[camerafodder]

Big lad was he ? English ? That'd be Roy. Top bloke.

I'm assuming he was wearing a tricorn hat and a mask too?

 

[Deleted member 6183]

Big lad was he ? English ? That'd be Roy. Top bloke.

Or Philip Green.

 

[Larkone]

I have to wonder why those who think detailing is a 'load of tosh' are on a detailing forum in the first place.

 

[zoros]

I happen to think Stoke City are a load of tosh, but I still pop in now and again to see whats going on.
Aren't you intrigued with people's behaviour Lark1